Anyone remember Rocky Mtn. Dragway at Commerce, CO?

[bill dedman]

Thanks, John; that was probably '69, or so. Are you the John Mason from the East Coast (New Yawk?) who used to run the red A/SA 427/425 Camaro in Div. VII about ten years ago? If so, we talked at Sonoma a couple of times...

A100 (whoever you are), I was only at that strip about three years; moved to Des Moines for the '65 season, and that strip closed after '68, I believe. I did hold down the Stocker tech job there for those 3 years.

There's a guy in Des Moines named Lary Latham who's writing a book about the Des Moines strip. His email address is larry49@dwx.com if you have something to contribute to the book, or would like to get on a list to get notice sent to you when he finishes it, you can contact him at that email address.

Right now, he's trying to locate a racer named "Don Biggers," from the Kansas City area who ran at Des Moines, some. Don was the 1962 AHRA Green Valley Nationals B/G Class Champion, having beat our car at Green Valley in the Class finals that year. He had a Hilborn injected SBC that ran a lot faster than anybody else in our neighborhood. His partner's last name was "Solomon," so the name on the door of this green, '40 Ford Coupe, was "Biggers and Soloman."

Anybody have an info on the whereabouts of those guys?

Wow; I hijacked my own thread.... is there some kind of Darwin Award for that??? LOL!

[bill dedman]

Here's the Biggers and Soloman Gasser...

Click on it and its size will increase incrementally...