Sunday will never be the same... (2 Viewers)

[Al]

Washing out the years


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AA/FD It's the 1977 NHRA Fallnationals at Seattle. "JET X" sponsored (see below) AA/FD of Frazier & Abbott with the late Johnny Abbott in the
seat. The Fallnationals at Seattle, from 1975 to 1980. The 1977 race was the only one I missed, started new job


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If you were going to miss one, you picked the right one. I went to the 1977 event with a bunch of friends. All was good until it started raining on and off during the 1st round on Sunday. They called the race and finished the next weekend (we couldn't stay).

 

[Gone Dead Train]

If you were going to miss one, you picked the right one. I went to the 1977 event with a bunch of friends. All was good until it started raining on and off during the 1st round on Sunday. They called the race and finished the next weekend (we couldn't stay).

Hi Al. I forgot (49 years ago) it rained on Sunday and the race was the next weekend. I was working the graveyard shift Fri, Sat and Sunday
Milwaukee Railroad, Cle Elum, WA. Hometown of Northwest funny car racer Mike Miller and maybe just maybe the best name ever for a
AA/FC "Boredom Zero" (below) saw the car crash at Seattle, June of 1980. If I remember the wheelie bars broke on the launch and the flopper
went over the guardrail just past the tree. I think it started raining right after that?

AA/FC 1980, Mike Miller in the seat. Good looking flopper

 

[Al]

Hi Al. I forgot (49 years ago) it rained on Sunday and the race was the next weekend. I was working the graveyard shift Fri, Sat and Sunday
Milwaukee Railroad, Cle Elum, WA. Hometown of Northwest funny car racer Mike Miller and maybe just maybe the best name ever for a
AA/FC "Boredom Zero" (below) saw the car crash at Seattle, June of 1980. If I remember the wheelie bars broke on the launch and the flopper
went over the guardrail just past the tree. I think it started raining right after that?



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AA/FC 1980, Mike Miller in the seat. Good looking flopper

I always liked Miller. The last time that I saw him was at the 1982 Golden Gate Nationals at Fremont. He arrived late Friday and the 8 car bump spot was already ridiculous with the Blue Max and Super Brut cars already not qualified. He left his rig parked at the gate for the rest of the weekend. That's the problem with 8 car fields (too hard to make). Hope we never go back to those.

 

[Gone Dead Train]

Time slips away

AA/FC From the Garden State, Jerry Caminito in the seat of his gorgeous Plymouth Arrow body funny car. Below are a couple of hatpins I
have in my collection after Caminito change the name of his flopper from "Hole Shot !" to "Blue Thunder"

 

[Al]

Time slips away


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AA/FC From the Garden State, Jerry Caminito in the seat of his gorgeous Plymouth Arrow body funny car. Below are a couple of hatpins I
have in my collection after Caminito change the name of his flopper from "Hole Shot !" to "Blue Thunder"


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I loved what this low-buck racer had painted by his funny car's side windows: " Driver carries no cash" !

 

[Gone Dead Train]

It seems like a dream

BB/FC From San Diego, CA one of my all time favorite BB/FC "The Beal Mobile" with Chuck Beal in the seat. Saw Chuck a number
of times in the Northwest in the 1970s and 80s. Just a great looking funny car and good running car. Long before Pro Mod was even
thought of, Chuck had the injector hat at the roof line...Bitchin

 

[Gone Dead Train]

People in Motion

AA/FD It's 1972 and from SoCal, the Allison Bros. Randy and Gary. Randy in the seat at Ontario. Good looking Woody Gilmore built AA/FD