TREE Taken out by a rear TIRE !!!

[LNorton]

Was it 5-6 years ago that Szilagyi got the tree?

[SC1317]

At Maple Grove, it was a corvette. Older one, I think in super street. Can't remember his real name, always called him gramps. Great guy, raced for years till then. Tom Goldman would remember!

The Wooden Shoe? was on the car

[badluckcrew1]

Originally Posted by SC1317

At Maple Grove, it was a corvette. Older one, I think in super street. Can't remember his real name, always called him gramps. Great guy, raced for years till then. Tom Goldman would remember!

The Wooden Shoe? was on the car

That was the car

[Tom Goldman]

The Vette was Herman Terpstra's Wooden Shoe S/st car. ...It was suposedly an ex Bruce Larson car ..I don't know if he;s ever put it back together after that hit. ....Soon NHRA will bring its own concrete pier to protect its tree,like the one they used to have at Bowling Green! LOL! ....saw that chunk of concrete claim Neil Mahr's roadster way back in the Seventies at the old Sportsnationals !..........I think it also was the one Jim Oddey hit with his Opel. .....Sounds like a great project for someone to compile photos of, Blows Against the Empire would be a great title ! ....Tom

[Jeff Foster]

As far as I know we will not be asked to pay for it. I dont even know yet what thr cost of repairs will be. Only 1 LED light broke (thats why they cost so much to begin with), the electronics inside are probably still usable. The new center has already built by my sheet metal shop and powder coated and on Fed-ex to me, new sockets ordered. Should have it all back together for Phoenix.

Jeff Foster

Compulink
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The left rear tire/wheel cam off the truck and he made a hard left turn right to the tree.

[Bill Rolik]

Yikes!

This scenario is the very definition of a "bad day at the track".

Many years ago, at Englishtown during a "Sunday Sunday" Stock/Super Stock combo race with my SS/JA Duster (with only 11.5 X 29.5W Firestones), I had a similar occurence where in the left lane, just after launch, all of the studs on the left axle sheared off. The tire "spit out" the back, and I actually saw it bouncing behind me in the side mirror. Luckily, I stayed on the track surface. No fun at all.

Bill Rolik

SS 1514

[Rich Biebel]

Joe Foster....a very good racer from my area and former champ in brackets and S/ST raced an early Nova....named "the Bat out a Hell" He lost a rear wheel/axle? at Atco and it caused the car to flip over and was damaged beyond repair. That car was known by everyone for it's big wheelstands but only ran high 10's.....Joe was a great guy to race with and lots of fun......He pitched his hood in the 3 or 4th round at the bracket finals one year. Everyone pitched in to beat it back straight and got it back on the car and he went on to win Pro ET......I nearly got the tree at E-town once when my old Vega with it's quirky 3-link rear suspension decided to go straight up and to the right.......got my attention....

[jim tatge]

Old injun steve and i didn't think you could remember back that far. We know who you are talking about but are keeping it under our hats. Tell chucky no dinner for him.

[Philip Saran]

The driver of the wayward truck is "GTX John" Irving, father of Jon &
Robby out of Boulder NV. They also campain a 78 Volare S/W, 73 Sat,
71 Demon and others.

[BLAZER]

Originally Posted by jim tatge

Old injun steve and i didn't think you could remember back that far. We know who you are talking about but are keeping it under our hats. Tell chucky no dinner for him.

WTF-old injun-steve-i- under our hat and chucky, did you all ride together when the tree went down?