Lifting The Towel Off Of Bob Glidden's Secrets

[stitcherbob]

I love the extent to which early Pro Stock engine builders went to innovate

 

[Percboy]

Good stuff, nice historic piece.
In the late 80s , I got to work on Gliddens EXP after the guy I worked for bought it for a Super Gas /Pro gas ride.

 

[mikebcurve]

Good stuff, nice historic piece.
In the late 80s , I got to work on Gliddens EXP after the guy I worked for bought it for a Super Gas /Pro gas ride.

Bob Marshall?

 

[Percboy]

Bob Marshall?

Thats the guy.....

 

[Dennis]

When your racing suit consisted of a t-shirt...classic!

Edited to add...posted that comment when I started watching the video, now that I've finished...good stuff. Would love to see more of these types of videos.

 

[DanTheFan]

That video was awesome. Thanks for posting. I remember walking the pits at Maple Grove with my wife (she knows nothing about racing) and walking past Glidden. I commented to her ‘see this guy....he’s a genius with this stuff’. My other memory of him was 87 Columbus I believe, the T-bird. Between rounds, it struck how little was going on. He seemed to have the upper hand and there was no thrashing trying to figure out how to win the next round. Then as he was in the staging lanes, he’s just hanging out and signed a couple autographs. It was just another day at the office. Today’s cars may be faster, but the old ones were much more interesting.

 

[*******]

Awesome video. just a tad before my time. I got into Glidden and pro stock in the mid 80's. Favorite all time Glidden car was the white/powder blue 83-84 T bird. I had a cleveland motor in my first race car back in 1990. An old square chassis 70 maverick. Sad to see the state of racing in this day and age compared to back then. Sure miss him and the rest of the drivers from then

 

[Cliff]

Wasn't the EXP the itty bitty car with a 500" motor in it? Heard it was kinda like driving a fuel altered.

 

[mikebcurve]

Thats the guy.....

I’ve read that it has since been restored to it’s original condition. This photo may confirm that. It’s great to see Bob Marshall out there running his “Dodge Material” in Super Stock well over 40 years from the first time I seen him.

 

[Percboy]

I’ve read that it has since been restored to it’s original condition. This photo may confirm that. It’s great to see Bob Marshall out there running his “Dodge Material” in Super Stock well over 40 years from the first time I seen him.

That Marshall photo sure brings back memories of seeing that car in the shop daily.
1986 ...I think

 

[none]

Always wondered if Shepherd had lived, how P/S would've gone down and how the championships would've played out.

 

[stitcherbob]

Always wondered if Shepherd had lived, how P/S would've gone down and how the championships would've played out.

two things would have happened....

Greg Anderson would have been gunning for Lee's record instead of WJ's

WJ would have been even more surly in race interviews

 

[TSK]

Great video.
The cars were mandated to have the engines that match the body style.
None of this nonsense of allowing (promoting?) cross-breeding of the cars.
I watched Glidden, in his ‘79 Plymouth Arrow, win Indy in 1979. He called the small block Mopar a “Chevy with weird rocker arms.”
Now, everybody runs shaft rockers.
If WJ is “The Professor”, Glidden was “The Wizard.”
The make of the engine didn’t matter; he made everything a winner.