Prayers for Kip Martin

[mtheulen]

Just a little update:
I just arrived home from helping Kip's daughters go thru things at the house.Wanted all of you to know, they have really enjoyed all the things everybody has wrote here on class racer.
As others have wrote on here, Kip was a classical pianist, total authority on figure and roller skating, and a certified pilot.Here in the last few years he had really took on bike riding and enjoyed timing how long it would take him to go X amount of miles (imagine that!)
Keep the stories rolling in guys, his daughters are having a ball reading them
Mike

[Don Kennedy]

Originally Posted by mtheulen

Just a little update:
I just arrived home from helping Kip's daughters go thru things at the house.Wanted all of you to know, they have really enjoyed all the things everybody has wrote here on class racer.
As others have wrote on here, Kip was a classical pianist, total authority on figure and roller skating, and a certified pilot.Here in the last few years he had really took on bike riding and enjoyed timing how long it would take him to go X amount of miles (imagine that!)
Keep the stories rolling in guys, his daughters are having a ball reading them
Mike

When I lived in new Mexico I use to meet Kip where ever we were going to race and always did a side tour sight seeing one time we met in Gallup New Mexico at the same cafe . One time we stopped to look at the huge Creator going to phoenix, also during that trip not only Kip was a Good skater ,liked Classical music, one night during this road trip we both went out with Randy at Lamb Components' and that night after a few strong beverages ,even though Kip hardly even indulged Randy, Kip and I because expert dancers at some fifties sixties place at least we thought were were lol at this , That night we even learned how to close the place down ,wow that was about 30 years ago or more

[Don Kennedy]

In The early 80's I had Kip Build me a 455 Super Duty Pontiac Motor for My Super Stocker and Marlan Davis from Hot Rod magazine did a article on the Dyno Session Kip did on My combination , Kip used to say many years after that article people from all over the world would always mention that article we use to laugh on how much fun we had when the article was being written

[SSDiv6]

Kip was also the Stepfather to Darin Morgan.
Darin has always given credit to Kip for his career as a racing cylinder porter and builder.

[Gary Merrick]

My Deepest Sympathies to the Martin family. All though I never had the pleasure of meeting Kip Martin, his name is legendary in the world of Drag Racing and I have followed his racing and accomplishments for many, many years.

Gary Merrick

[HP HUNTER]

Kip would visit his daughters out in Kansas, on his way back to Phoenix he would stop at my shop in Colorado and spend a few days, this was always my oppurtunity to discuss my car setup with him, Kip and Harold Bettes would talk for hours about the old days while I would work, those lunches were always filled with tech talk those I will miss, at night he would always go out to dinner with my family, and my family was very close to him. I remember one day we drove up to Denver to buy a 454 core, always Kip the gentlemen engaged in a conversation with the seller, and for you guys that never met Kip, he was a very likeable, the kind of person you liked having around!

[Floyd Staggs]

RIP. Thoughts and prayers to the family.

[conmyshirt1373]

Prayers for Kip and his family! .I often wondered how he could get a 289 with 440 cfm carburetor to go that fast. He was the yardstick that Fazio Family Racing measured their performance!

[Don Kennedy]

In the early 70's we were racing at Amarillo , Texas and Kip was pitted by me and he had to tear down the Engine I believe for a record with His Ford Galaxy ,just as I was changing a new cam in My Chevy .Darn if Kip had his motor apart and back to gather before I got the cam done , so he came over and helped me finish , I knew his motive we were all going to go out to diner that night and he wanted to make sure we did that lol
Of course i bought
Wow He was one of the quickest racer i know who could take his engine apart for tear down and get it back together in time to go out to diner (tie)