Loss another Class Racer

[Jim Wahl]

Originally Posted by dragracerray

I wish I knew Carl. I definitely remember his 1969 Camaro SS car. On the back it said, "I'm a Chevy in a Hemi class". Maybe he was in SS/A? He is in "heaven class" now. Condolences to his family. Ray

He had two of them. Both red '69 Camaros. They ran SS/B & SS/BA. More recently he had a fleet of Drag Pak MoPars and the red Plymouth Gen3 HEMI car the Denny Steward won SS at Indy with. And of course, past owner, operator of Orlando Speed World for many, many years. Jim


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[Myron Piatek]

RIP Carl and condolences to the family. Thanks for the memories at Orlando Speed World.

[KennyAnderson]

Probably about a year ago I got a phone call out of the blue from Carl. He was having his friend/racers sign the wall in his shop and he asked me to stop by and sign it next time I was close by. I felt very honored but sadly it didn't happen in time..... Race in Peace Carl. You will be missed.

[Carguy49]

R.I.P. Carl.

I never had the chance to meet Carl, but sounds like a well respected and loved. man. The kind of person we should all be more like.

[Jim Wahl]

I'll never forget what he would say when he would call, "C. Edward Weisinger the second here". Did he do this with any of you guys also?

How about sharing some of your "Carl" stories with everyone to remember him by. There must be a million of them. I'll start:

1991 Gators: Pulled in and parked in the pits and my son, Shane, who was 7 years old at the time, looked over and saw Carl's rig parked on the next row. He shouted "Hey!, there's Carl!" and jumped out of the truck and raced over to Carl's trailer where he and Carl spent most of the the day visiting and talking about life, dogs and racing. When I went over to get Shane so we could go to the hotel he said "but I wanna stay with Carl!" Carl looked at him and said "Shane, I'm your buddy but he's your dad. Go!" On the way to the hotel Shane looked over at me and said "Carl's a really nice man isn't he." I nodded at him with a smile and said "Yes he is, yes he is". Jim


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[SSDA Hemi]

Truly one person I enjoyed talking with and loved his stories of class racing from the past. Carl told me a certain story about running George Vignonia in the SS/BA class final. The story seemed so far fetched, except Georgie told me the same exact story on a different occasion and repeated the story of Carl beating him in the final to the last detail!

Loved his stories and loved Orlando when he ran it. Carl was a true Class racer and him and George can battle for class trophy again, Big Hemi vs BBC in the dragway upstairs.

Class act. Rest in peace Carl

[Abe Loewen]

Sorry to hear this. Carl was a good friend of mine. My condolences to the family.

[Paul Precht]

Carl was one of the few people I could talk to for hours and enjoy every moment, he would send me pics of his car builds as well as dyno tests, a great guy IMO, RIP my friend.

[James Perrone]

Godspeed Carl
The first year I went to Orlando was 2005 I got the opportunity to crew for Micheal iacono
So my wife’s flying in Monday and we have a rental car So me and the misses and another couple of people go out to eat and when we get back to the track my I decided to show my wife what it’s like to make a pass down the track . When I get back to my pit Carl is waiting. He asked what are doing? I said I want to show my wife the track
He looks at me laughing.. That’s a good excuse have fun Don’t go too fast
We were driving a new Taurus. Thank you Carl my wife wil never forget it

[Larry Hill]

Carl and I traded money a few times and he was a stand up guy everything thing was as good or better than he described. RPI Mr Carl

Patsy and Larry