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Originally Posted by sammy pizzolato
danny, johnny did wreck the old 72 fornof former dover car it was a trailering wreck. my 71 car is the only one left of the 4 fornof olds cars that dover drove.the first was a 1969 hurst olds that they sold and put back on the street was crashed and burned.the 70 car crashed and crushed. my car and the 72 car was the only two that were never street driven.and the red 72 convert was a co sponsered by remlinger and fornof at the end of 1972 if you look at old pics of the red car at the end of 72 had remlinger on the door and fornof on the rear quarters.and dover and wheeler on the front fenders. mid 1972 mr bill fornof was killed in and air show crash.he was a wwII flying ace that was a pilot of mustangs and f8f barcats.him and his son flew a pair of bearcats and they were flying at and air show with the blue angels mid 72 when the wing came off of mr fornof's plane and then he crashed and he died in the crash.his son corkey fornof still flies in movies today he used to fly the little bd5 jets that flew in the james bond movie where he flew through a plane hanger he still does all air stunts for all movies today.he flew the air liner through a hanger door in the movie face off.danny a lot of old history with the fornof's.if you look up bill or corkey fornof on the computor there is a lot of history with the fornof's.i hope you enjoyed the old stories.thanks for the memories.
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Great story Sam ! As a WWII warbird buff I love all the stories pertaining to the planes from that era. Two good friends , both gone now , one a Marine pilot in the pacific, flew with Greg Boyington but not the Black Sheep in a Corsair and the other B24s also in the Pacific used to sit and tell stories for hours. I will definately look the Fornof's up. Thanks