bowtiebill
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I was sitting straight above Doug's car when it blew, maybe 10-20 rows up. All I can say is, wow. Never forget that. Small pieces rained down on us.
Just did a quick Google search for this and stumbled across this link by Gil Rebilas, Mark's dad.-On a side note, Mark Kinsella bought out Eddie Hill's operation and had a very similar explosion at Englishtown the next year. Total destruction.
Famous picture. Happened at Tulsa at perhaps the PDA race. Larry Brown driving for Bob Dumont. There was a great write up and pictures in Natl Dragster a few years back.
Just did a quick Google search for this and stumbled across this link by Gil Rebilas, Mark's dad.
http://arizonaautoscene.com/2015/02...aptures-mark-kinsellas-spolsion-english-town/
Mark Oswalds boomer from 1990 in Dallas has to be one of the bigger funny car ones of all time
Oswald and Dallas didn't get along too good. Just a few years later in 92 he rode out another wild one in the Petosa Brothers car.
Back in the 60s at Indy and a few other races everyone had their motors set on kill trying to qualify. If you stood down near the finish line it rained parts from the explosions. You took everything you had with you and if you came home with any parts left it was usually because you didn't qualify.
There was a reason the NHRA always made the Birkey Bunch car run last in a session. Their fireball at the (I believe) 1987 Finals at Pomona was epic. The concussion took a few moments to get to me and my buddy at the 1000' foot mark.
That was the first one with the Motorcraft car.Isn't that the one where the body was blown off of the car, but because his helmet's visor was covered with oil, he didn't know that, and you could see him reaching up trying to open up the now non-existant escape hatch?