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Jim Irwin, this is for you.
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Gone Dead Train
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LOL... Thank you Cliff for posting. We just might have keep you around a little longer. Sh%t what have I done?
One more thing you spelled my name wrong, the w is not even close to the v on the key board.
One more thing you spelled my name wrong, the w is not even close to the v on the key board.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Sorry Jim. I R V I N. By the way, I see your last name & think of JR/F dragsters, cuz there was a team that ran back then with a name that sounds like yours. I was told that I'm the king of the re-posters. heh I just try to pick stuff I think would be interesting for people to read, & (usually) stay away from controversy. This is a great site & I've learned a lot from the folks who post here.
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The only other Irvin in drag racing I believe was from San Diego, Don Irvin he raced a Top Alcohol Dragster back in the 70'S
I think he works for Goodguys or did as there racing director. Then again I could be wrong, not the first time or the last!
You have Irvin Johns from Indiana who races Super Stock.
JR/Fuel back in 1968 on warm July day at Pacific Raceway my first drag race (8 years old) fell in love with those cars and yes
there was AA/FD. Thanks to my oldest sister Chantal for taking me, and to lions in July of 1972, the Div 7 race.
She happens to live up the street from you Cliff in Congress,
I think he works for Goodguys or did as there racing director. Then again I could be wrong, not the first time or the last!
You have Irvin Johns from Indiana who races Super Stock.
JR/Fuel back in 1968 on warm July day at Pacific Raceway my first drag race (8 years old) fell in love with those cars and yes
there was AA/FD. Thanks to my oldest sister Chantal for taking me, and to lions in July of 1972, the Div 7 race.
She happens to live up the street from you Cliff in Congress,
Hmmm, maybe it is Don Irvin I'm thinking about. The old Pro Comp class, which I loved. And "Indiana Johns" in S/S. I have seen him run at Wild Horse. Heavy hitter in S/S. I was at the Div 7 race at Lions in 1972. That might have been the one where Clayton Harris set the T/F record. Ah, Congress, AZ. Not quite up the street from me (maybe 1.5 hours by car) but a cool little town. I moved to AZ in 1981, from Lost Angeles (born in LA) and have come to know AZ really well. From Phx, going thru Congress the back way to Prescott. Twisty road but the scenery is first class. We have a town called Bagdad. Little mine town, kinda NW of Congress. Went there once just to see what it looked like. I should be a tour guide for AZ; pretty much been all over the state, except for the Rez in N. AZ. If you ever read Tony Hillerman mysterys, you'll know a lot about the Navajo people & the area the Rez covers.
Gone Dead Train
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My sister has lived in New Mexico (Gallup) since 1971 worked for the Navajo's, school teacher, then Asst Superintendent of schools.
Retired then moved to Congress 8 or 9 years ago.
Lions 1972. I think Capt Billy Tidwell set a new MPH record in Top Fuel at 236 in the Lisa & Rossi ironing board car.
Tidwell was once married to Linda Vaughn.
Retired then moved to Congress 8 or 9 years ago.
Lions 1972. I think Capt Billy Tidwell set a new MPH record in Top Fuel at 236 in the Lisa & Rossi ironing board car.
Tidwell was once married to Linda Vaughn.
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Well I was a kid at the time, but loved the Pro Comp class, and I think Don Irvin drove a team car for Weiss & Scott. Actually it could have been Al Weiss' second car and been Weiss & Irvin.
Yeah, I think you're right. Jimmy Scott used to be the starter at San Fernando. His son got into the 7.50 F/C class in Calif. Saw them once at the old Speedworld & talked to Jimmy. The Weiss & Scott car first ran AA/GD and ran 6.90's on gas. They won a lot of races with that car. Then I think they went AA/DA (alky). They did have a 2nd car & it probably was Weiss & Irvin. If I remember right, Jimmy Scott also got his T/F license in a front motor car at Lions. Didn't run it too long. They were always a terror in Top Gas and later Pro Comp.
Gone Dead Train
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Before the Cliff & Jim thread comes to a end. Yes I can hear the clapping, no reason to get nasty about it!
Cliff I gave you top billing, since you are old, I mean older, hell not sure what I mean?
Anyway mater's need your help. I have 1,090-One Thousand Ninety all drag racing hat pins. I know it's not
that many pins but I dig it. Has anyone seen or have this Scott Kalitta pin. The pin came out in early 1995, That's when
I got the pin. Got a lot my stuff, T-shirts, pins and other drag goodies from Richard Clearmont the t shirt king from
Redding, CA. He would sell a lot of stuff for a number Drag Racers and Drag Boat Racers to. He sold from 1991 until
early 1996, when he got sick with cancer and passed away a year or so later, Got to remember this was before the
internet. You be on his mailing list, he would send out new listing's 2 or 3 times a year the pictures would be fair at best. He used a
Zerox printing machine YIKES. Me and a buddy both got the pin. Never saw it later that year 1995 NorthWest Nats Seattle.
My buddy has bin on eBay a lot longer then me and I have bin a buyer for a number years. Never seen one on eBay, talked to a number of
sellers over the years never any proof but lots of BS. It's a big pin 2 inches around. If you have it post it.
Cliff I gave you top billing, since you are old, I mean older, hell not sure what I mean?
Anyway mater's need your help. I have 1,090-One Thousand Ninety all drag racing hat pins. I know it's not
that many pins but I dig it. Has anyone seen or have this Scott Kalitta pin. The pin came out in early 1995, That's when
I got the pin. Got a lot my stuff, T-shirts, pins and other drag goodies from Richard Clearmont the t shirt king from
Redding, CA. He would sell a lot of stuff for a number Drag Racers and Drag Boat Racers to. He sold from 1991 until
early 1996, when he got sick with cancer and passed away a year or so later, Got to remember this was before the
internet. You be on his mailing list, he would send out new listing's 2 or 3 times a year the pictures would be fair at best. He used a
Zerox printing machine YIKES. Me and a buddy both got the pin. Never saw it later that year 1995 NorthWest Nats Seattle.
My buddy has bin on eBay a lot longer then me and I have bin a buyer for a number years. Never seen one on eBay, talked to a number of
sellers over the years never any proof but lots of BS. It's a big pin 2 inches around. If you have it post it.
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Jim, that is a collectors item! You probably could get a good price for it somewhere. I wonder if there is a drag racing collectors site? As far as me being old(er), yep. But we have a rule, ya ain't old until yer 80 & then you become an OOG - Official Old Guy / Gal. So I still have 6 years to go. People always ask me how I'm doing, and I say I'm older. Did you have a birthday? No, just older today than I was yesterday. Smart A$$........ heh heh
Gone Dead Train
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Jim, that is a collectors item! You probably could get a good price for it somewhere. I wonder if there is a drag racing collectors site? As far as me being old(er), yep. But we have a rule, ya ain't old until yer 80 & then you become an OOG - Official Old Guy / Gal. So I still have 6 years to go. People always ask me how I'm doing, and I say I'm older. Did you have a birthday? No, just older today than I was yesterday. Smart A$$........ he
Cliff I believe you are has old as you want to be. I'm 60 going on 40 that's my girl friend and my kids tell me. Plus it helps when you have
a great sense of humor that we both have. Drag racing memorabilia, eBay is the main source for everything drag racing from T-Shirts
hat pins, posters, vintage hand outs, vintage magazines ect. Winter nats and Finals at Pomona the museum has a memorabilia show.
That Kalitta pin if I was going list it on eBay and sell it. I would start the bidding $100.00 Some of the older pins that I have go for $150.00
Plus it matters if the market is flooded or not. Old John Force pins will bring in good money, over $100.00 for a pin.
I have 87 different Force pins. but still missing at least 8 pins maybe more.
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Gone Dead Train
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Just a tiny sample of stuff on eBay above
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