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Old 04-26-2017, 09:09 PM   #2
Greg Reimer 7376
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Unhappy Re: Jerry McClanahan RIP

I met Jerry many decades ago when I had a 283 car. He steered me around a few issues and sold me some of his old parts. Fun guy to know. I remember reading about him and his 66 full sized 283 wagon when he won 17 Saturday nights in a row at the original Irwindale, he and other racers thrashed all night to make the next race, the usual stuff. When I started bracket racing, he had a Chevy II that would run Super Street. At the last bracket race at OCIR ,he spanked me on the tree round one when I had my 409.
Some time back, we had a discussion about racers, and there were some that did nothing but hang on the fence and watch, some who have done it so long they lived through and witnessed history, and a smaller core of racers that actually made history. Jerry was definitely one of those.
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