Last summer I started a photo history of Dirt track racers from my area from as far back as I could find! Well I found a bunch of stuff from 1948 to present, the Unsers started racing Dirt here in Albuq. around 50-51! What started out at 220 pics has grown to close to 1,000!
Anyway in the last 6-8 months some local Drag racers have asked me to do a similar deal for them. My only reason for hesitation was that I hadn't been to our local Drag strip at all till I was like 22! So I had no personal memories to draw from, plus I didn't know any of the local old timers from way back.
Well I have since gotten ahold of a few historians to gather stuff from and I can tell you this is SOO rewarding! I had NO idea just how many Drag racing hero's raced here in the 60's-70's, Prudhomme, Jungle Jim, Tommy Ivo, you name it raced here in my Hometown and I had NO idea! On my Dirt track sight I've had several comments from Grandkids of deceased racers telling how thankful they are that I did this! Telling me how they wish grand pa was alive to see this! Comments like that make it all worthwhile!
Anyway in the last 6-8 months some local Drag racers have asked me to do a similar deal for them. My only reason for hesitation was that I hadn't been to our local Drag strip at all till I was like 22! So I had no personal memories to draw from, plus I didn't know any of the local old timers from way back.
Well I have since gotten ahold of a few historians to gather stuff from and I can tell you this is SOO rewarding! I had NO idea just how many Drag racing hero's raced here in the 60's-70's, Prudhomme, Jungle Jim, Tommy Ivo, you name it raced here in my Hometown and I had NO idea! On my Dirt track sight I've had several comments from Grandkids of deceased racers telling how thankful they are that I did this! Telling me how they wish grand pa was alive to see this! Comments like that make it all worthwhile!
