I remember seeing his 67 Camaro Funny on a Gold Dust Video. He just got it out of the paint shop. A brand new car. He wreck it up into gaurd rail n fence n crack it up. I'm thinking 1967 at some track. Someone correct me on my memory. Much respect for him.

@hillbillyhitman8506

6 ай бұрын

1969. He killed 12 Spectators and injured 40 more when it went through a guardrail and into a crowd at 150 mph at Yellow River Drag Strip.Youngest spectator killed was 3 yrs old. That was the last Drag Race held at that track. They turned it into a Trailer Park.

Sweet.. definitely appreciate these over cookie cutters of today

My Dad used to race a lot around the Southeast in the 60s. Bill Aughtry. 66 black and gold chevelle, named Wildfire. Houston Platt was as big a hero to me back then as Grumpy, Garlits, or anyone when I was a kid. Sure miss those days a the strip

The way those guardrails drop off in the staging lanes,it reminds me of Dallas,Ga.

@tamike1957

2 жыл бұрын

I believe this is Paradise dragstrip in Calhoun GA

I'd love to know the duration of that camshaft!

That was my dads friends dads car

the one that killed all the people at conyers i think..

@tamike1957

2 жыл бұрын

That car was a 69. Thai car was found in Nova Scotia.

@abl892

4 ай бұрын

Yellow river disaster I think

Is this the same car that was involved at yellow river?

@joshvibez2803

Жыл бұрын

No that one was a 69

@qwikz28

Жыл бұрын

Did Platt keep racing after that event?

@mykemech

11 ай бұрын

@@qwikz28 Yes

Ok, turn it loose.

.that dry hop didn't help.