Norm Day (almost) becomes a crispy critter

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Norm Day's Insane Flaming Wreck Minnesota NHRA

In this video we see Norm Day's Insane Flaming Wreck from the 1986 NHRA NOrthstar Nationals in Minnesota. Day was amazingly OK after this calamity.

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Scary to watch.....

 

[mick]

hard to imagine that was 35 years ago

 

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That little white Ford Fire truck that pulled up in that video is STILL in service at BIR today. It's a mid 1980's Ford and only has something like 33,000 miles on it... all put on driving around BIR property. Jed repainted it a few years ago and put new emergency lighting on it. Looks pretty good still. Notice the black metal tractor seats on the rear corners of the truck for the fire fighters to ride on...... I drank beer while sitting on those same seats about 30 years ago after a friend of mine won the Show N Go that year. Good times!