Jim Dunn Racing 2026 (35 Viewers)

[J]

The Dunn M.O. for many years has been to use a buy-a-ride driver to help fund the operation. I doubt that would change now. I don't think Lindberg would want to pay for a ride.

Id be pissed if i paid for that ride,1st round runner up almost every race...

 

[Axman]

Yeah, me too. They don’t go many rounds.
I believe Tony Bartone was the last driver to win in the Dunn car back in the early 2000’s

 

[J. S.]

Id be pissed if i paid for that ride,1st round runner up almost every race...

But everyone knows that is the deal going in. You get the thrill of being a part of the Big Show. They run on a tight budget and no doubt could turn up the wick and go a few rounds if they had more funding. It is a unique approach for sure, but they are able to stay out there year after year.....

 

[stitcherbob]

Classy

Jim Dunn. -
“[Son] Mike worked on all of my cars probably from the time he was five years old. He got his license in my car, running on alcohol. He was like me, pretty mechanically inclined right from the get-go. He got pretty good and started asking to get paid for working on the car. I told him, ‘I don’t pay anyone,’ and turned him over to Roland [Leong]. I said, ‘Hey Roland, do you want a crew guy who’s 17 but has 20 years’ experience?’ He said, ‘Send him over.’
Mike Dunn -
“I licensed in my dad’s car, which at the time was the Dunn & Velasco Satellite,” he said. “We actually ran it on alcohol first the year before; we had a 6-71 blower and a small injector, and my dad blocked off the port nozzles and bought an alcohol barrel valve. My dad had a spare two-speed, so I spent $600 of my own money to buy a kit that was out there that you could use to bolt together two two-speeds to make a three-speed. My dad was messing around with the Donovan then, but he didn’t want me to ruin his good parts, so he found an old steel Hemi. Pisano gave me a set of pistons and a camshaft, and Valvoline gave me a drum of alcohol. I ran 7.38 at 178. We switched to nitro for a race at Orange County, where I got my nitro license and even qualified for the show. It was kind of funny because he actually was struggling at the time with that Donovan, and I went quicker than he’d run in a while.”

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The fun ended there, though, as he broke a rod on his first-round burnout against Dale Pulde, and after “Big Jim” made it clear that Mike wouldn’t be handed a race car of his own, he left to crew for Leong through the end of 1979 before landing his first ride, in Bill Schifsky’s Beartown Shaker"

I have never seen the two of them together anywhere, at the drags or at an interview....

 

[BOO BOO]

Jim Dunn. -
“[Son] Mike worked on all of my cars probably from the time he was five years old. He got his license in my car, running on alcohol. He was like me, pretty mechanically inclined right from the get-go. He got pretty good and started asking to get paid for working on the car. I told him, ‘I don’t pay anyone,’ and turned him over to Roland [Leong]. I said, ‘Hey Roland, do you want a crew guy who’s 17 but has 20 years’ experience?’ He said, ‘Send him over.’
Mike Dunn -
“I licensed in my dad’s car, which at the time was the Dunn & Velasco Satellite,” he said. “We actually ran it on alcohol first the year before; we had a 6-71 blower and a small injector, and my dad blocked off the port nozzles and bought an alcohol barrel valve. My dad had a spare two-speed, so I spent $600 of my own money to buy a kit that was out there that you could use to bolt together two two-speeds to make a three-speed. My dad was messing around with the Donovan then, but he didn’t want me to ruin his good parts, so he found an old steel Hemi. Pisano gave me a set of pistons and a camshaft, and Valvoline gave me a drum of alcohol. I ran 7.38 at 178. We switched to nitro for a race at Orange County, where I got my nitro license and even qualified for the show. It was kind of funny because he actually was struggling at the time with that Donovan, and I went quicker than he’d run in a while.”

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The fun ended there, though, as he broke a rod on his first-round burnout against Dale Pulde, and after “Big Jim” made it clear that Mike wouldn’t be handed a race car of his own, he left to crew for Leong through the end of 1979 before landing his first ride, in Bill Schifsky’s Beartown Shaker"

I have never seen the two of them together anywhere, at the drags or at an interview....

The Rob Reiner post was in poor taste period. If it was a attempt at humor, it failed.

 

[Just Paul]

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The fun ended there, though, as he broke a rod on his first-round burnout against Dale Pulde, and after “Big Jim” made it clear that Mike wouldn’t be handed a race car of his own, he left to crew for Leong through the end of 1979 before landing his first ride, in Bill Schifsky’s Beartown Shaker"

I have never seen the two of them together anywhere, at the drags or at an interview....

They reunited in 90 and 91 working for Ed Abel on the Snickers car and did well together. Not much after that though.