Stock/Super Stock drag racing and Midwest Class Racers lost one of it's biggest fans and supporters Jan. 25th with the passing of Kevin Nyhus.
My brother will be remembered as a quiet, gentle man with a sharp wit and a knack for one liners at just the right moment. And though our lives took very different paths, they were similar in so many ways. We both lost our first wives to breast cancer and were fortunate to find love again and remarry. We shared a love of drag racing, rock and roll, movie and music trivia, nice firearms and hunting. He was an Amateur Baseball junky and a long time supporter of the Renner Monarchs, a long time power house team and many time South Dakota State Champions on which his son Jason played first base and catcher. At one of the games, Jason was suiting up to catch and Kevin turned to me and said: "Look at that, Alan..he's putting on the tools of ignorance."
Yeah...that was his style of humor.
We disagreed on a few things but nothing too important. He thought that Lynrd Skynrd's 'Free Bird' was the ultimate Southern Rock anthem, while I'd make a case for either 'Green Grass and High Tides' by The Outlaws or 'Highway Song' by Blackfoot. He loved Eagles music and I don't. He always said he "...wouldn't walk across the street to see The Rolling Stones!" I suspect it was just to get a rise out of me!
Good stuff.
Even as his health problems whittled away at him, he wasn't going to sit idly by. Even if meant getting trackside with his cane to film the car...there he was. And he could normally tell me within a couple thousandths what the 60 foot was.
To use one of our favorite lines to each other: "Adios, Bart."
https://www.georgeboom.com/obituary/kevin-nyhus
"Deal me up another future from some brand new deck of cards" -Bob Seger
Oahe Raceway 2020, Kevin in his usual place:
Kevin cooling it down before the semis. Marion, S.D. circa 1981
Kevin and his son, Jason:
Kevin and I on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in better days:
