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Old 02-01-2011, 07:29 PM   #7
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Default Re: Fire Dept Drag Racing

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Originally Posted by Lew Silverman View Post
Art,

They took their C-rigs VERY seriously! Eddie Akim at A&P Automotive in Port Washington built the hemi's for the Great Neck Alert's when they had the Ford pickup and the Pacer's in Oceanside (Tasmanian Devil AA/A) always built the motors for that city's firematics team. I could never understand why New York was the only State to have the motorized firematics. In Florida we just did the "old-fashioned" events. Still fun but no where near the adrenalin rush!!

Lew
I remember Eddie. A friend, had him do his machine work. At the time he was running a top fuel dragster
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