Monday, February 28, 2022

Quite the rig, Tommy!

 


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  1. He had that rig at Thunder Valley Dragway near Marion South Dakota sometime in the mid Seventies just for display. Always been sorry I didn't have a camera or take pictures when he was there.

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  2. Back around 1968 TV Tommy took that dragster to Japan, where they never saw a Top Fuel dragster. He lit it'll and instantly all the old people dropped to their knees - long thing, points nose, spitting fire - they knew a dragon when they saw it

    All the young people stood up and clapped. Clapping wasn't done in Japan back then, but they did it.

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  3. A bit ironic that he is advertising Dodge powered dragsters, and yet has a corvette instead of a mopar.

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    1. He needed something to go and get the groceries.
      jack

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  4. I remember coming home from school and seeing Tommy Ivo's rig on the cover oh the new Hot Rod Magazine. I worked after school on the NJ Turnpike pumping gas at the Cities Service station in Yardville. When I walked into the station, his rig was parked in front of the bay doors. Maybe it wasn't that exact one, though. My memory thinks it was a tractor trailer rig.

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  5. In 1974 at the drag strip in Oldsmar, FL I saw Tommy Ivo & Don Garlits do 3 exhibition runs. Ivo won the 1st, Garlits won the last 2. They both worked on their own cars between runs, no crew.

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