Video of the coal Digger III pre season testing
 

Most of you old Timers should remember this name from the Modified days and his famous Helicopter track drying technique.


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Re: Video of the coal Digger III pre season testing
 

The REAL Coal Digger was that awsome Ford Fairmont....stick car...A/SM I believe... a mini Glidden vehicle.

Someone ought to have a photo somewhere.

Re: Video of the coal Digger III pre season testing
 

I remember when he ran a Maverick I believe

Re: Video of the coal Digger III pre season testing
 

Roush was a big part of his Super Modified days!!! He liked yellow then also.

Re: Video of the coal Digger III pre season testing
 

The first "Coal Digger" I rember was a yellow stick Mustang [1970 maybe?] running super stock.. Don was a very good driver, I think he was runner up at Indy in super stock one year.

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I ran into Don Bowles last October at a NMCA race at Memphis,,,he is always the gentleman, I told him I was from Seattle and remembered taking shots of his Mustang around '76 when he brought it out west during the Grace Cup days. That car was a big bodied 71-73 style and ran real fast, a stick car also. He returned around 1980 with the Fairmont and that was an impressive Super Modified piece too. He told us some stories about always enjoying the trips out west, but he stays closer to home nowadays. He was now running a Maverick, still yellow and still a stick car and still having fun in his twilight years. I'm hoping we can all be enjoying this when we're his age. It was great spending a little time with him.
Danny Durham

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Before you guys jump all over me,,,Thats deffinately an automatic I'm hearing on the video of the Maverick, when I thought it was a stick last fall when we saw it. I'm thinking old fart syndrome has hit me again. Great runs however, in the 8.50s. I wish they had that style of racing up in the NW. Danny Durham

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It is an automatic, most likely a Turbo 400.

By the way the record for the class is:



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