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- Aug 4, 2006
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Wow, those are some cool pictures.Great shots! This brings back so many memories! My Mom worked at the track with the PR department, and being a young man with full run of the place for all those years was awesome. This is were I started taking pics of race cars. So many great NHRA, NASCAR, and INDY events.
I have hundreds of slides and B&W pics from all the events at the track. And yes, the Cal Jams also!
Here is a link to some pics I just put together real quick... Enjoy
ClarkOdenPhotography's photos and albums on webshots
Clark
Great shots! This brings back so many memories! My Mom worked at the track with the PR department, and being a young man with full run of the place for all those years was awesome. This is were I started taking pics of race cars. So many great NHRA, NASCAR, and INDY events.
I have hundreds of slides and B&W pics from all the events at the track. And yes, the Cal Jams also!
Here is a link to some pics I just put together real quick... Enjoy
ClarkOdenPhotography's photos and albums on webshots
Clark
Here is a link to some pics I just put together real quick... Enjoy
ClarkOdenPhotography's photos and albums on webshots
Clark
the tower that is in the backround of pic #14 and #15; is it the same building that is on the property at Pomona down by the spectator parking gate?
And if you were on fire and had no chutes, you had to go out on the main track and try to make turn one.
I was there in '74 driving the "Hawiian"... It pushed the valve cover gaskets out just before the finish line [sheet metal covers], and the "thermos jacketed" headers didnt exist yet.. Needless to say, it became a huge inferno.. Just past the finish line, it had already burned off both the chutes, and a little ways further, burned off both the rear tires... The fire bottles barely bought me enough time to get off into the grass just before turn 1 on the Oval, and I bailed out the side window area while the car was still rolling... Thank God for the bulky, non fashionable, 9 layer Tri-Form suit that I was wearing.. It burned off 7 of the 9 layers, in areas I wont mention, but it saved my ASS from any serious burns..
The following year they mandated Cast valve covers, Jacketed headers, and roof hatches, or as "Coil" put it, "Pig Chutes"..
It's amazing to me, what we all got away with in those days, with the safety equipment that we had, AND didnt have....
Denny Savage
I was at the end of the bridge in about 74 or 75 when Tom Toler, driving Dick Stahl's car had a fireball very similar to Abbott's right in front of us. I can still feel how hot it was, not to mention the junk that rained down around us.
Not sure who she is, but ol' Buster is checking out her assets!Wow, who's the Hottie with Linda Vaughn????
Supernationals.I know someone will come up with this right away, but what was the name of the event before the World Finals race was moved there?