And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ReplyDeleteBack 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
ReplyDeleteAll the young people stood up and clapped. Clapping wasn't done in Japan back then, but they did it.
A bit ironic that he is advertising Dodge powered dragsters, and yet has a corvette instead of a mopar.
ReplyDeleteHe needed something to go and get the groceries.
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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.
ReplyDeleteIn 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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