Awesome stories!

Irwindale Raceway had the best burgers of any dragstrip in the country.

I remember that car

I knew Jack Noris. He worked on PURE HELL when it was a Chevy 327 car and was the first to pulled a 8sec 1/4 . If anyone has pictures of Jack I would love to see them.

My oldest son, who turned 30 this past August, asked me if I knew any of the people from racing back then? Starting in 1959, which is a long time ago for me, and I was there, but to my sons and grandchildren, I sometimes wonder if they...oh yeah, there was that one time when they were much younger, my sons I mean. When one of them decided he would be willing to ask me a question. He asked me if I had ever befriended a dinosaur? He was dead serious. I started to answer, when it struck me that this might be the perfect time to introduce them to a racer, I knew who was anything but pleasant to be around. hahaha

Tell Pat Coyle I said HI.