The Greeks "incident" last weekend

[Sherman, Sherm, & Sherm Gun]

The one and only time I started the fueler I was working on, it popped and lurched. It happens so fast, you poop yourself later...

 

[mgty3whlr]

I know the guy lifting the body on a F/C is risking his life multiple times a day..............

I believe it was Cruz's one time. Hit a team member on the starting line because they didn't have to cutout big enough and when the body came down it caught the linkage.

 

[Nunz]

I think that was Tony's Quaker State car. And, Bernstein had it happen in his FC, the following weekend the crew were all wearing T-shirts with tire tracks on them!

 

[ironpony]

IIRC Tony P's guy got run over and hurt never to be able to return to the sport

 

[my friends call me Zappy]

Yeah, make them leave the starter on and drag the battery pack!

Go to a nostalgia fc race, many of them self start, body down, it can be done.
NHRA's motto used to be "safety first"...time they lived up to it.imo

 

[ironpony]

but a starter would add 30 lbs, it would slow them way down

 

[Reese]

but a starter would add 30 lbs, it would slow them way down

Then we could go back to 1/4 mile.
Sorry couldn't resist.

 

[TF CREW]

Go to a nostalgia fc race, many of them self start, body down, it can be done.
NHRA's motto used to be "safety first"...time they lived up to it.imo

What nostalgia Funny Cars are you watching?
Not a single Nostalgia Fuel car self starts.

 

[vegasnitro]

IIRC Tony P's guy got run over and hurt never to be able to return to the sport

Dickie Venables is still a crew chief and still winning races. The young man who tried to lift the body, Cody Pendergrass, was none the worse for the wear and was even interviewed on that weekend's US Nationals coverage after the incident.

 

[my friends call me Zappy]

What nostalgia Funny Cars are you watching?
Not a single Nostalgia Fuel car self starts.

I didn't say nitro, I've have seen nostalgia ally fc's self start. GLNFCC cars.

 

[mgty3whlr]

That's right it was Tony's, I knew it was one of the Pedregon's cars.

 

[Nick Name]

Anyone remember Herb Parks?

 

[DrRocket]

Venables lost his pants and got his orbs torched in the deal.

 

[JRW]

Anyone remember Herb Parks?

Yep,rocky epperly backed up over him if im correct,sad.

 

[stitcherbob]

Anyone remember Herb Parks?

LA Times,1988
"Herb Parks, 39, who was Don Garlits' crew chief for 10 years during which Big Daddy won 7 drag racing national championships, was killed in a qualifying accident during the National Hot Rod Assn.'s Snowbird Open in Bradenton, Fla. Parks, who left Garlits 2 years ago to work for Dan Pastorini, was hit by his own dragster as driver Rocky Epperly backed up after a burnout. Parks died the next morning in a Bradenton hospital of head injuries."

 

[TAFC 5 81]

In early 81 I was standing in the burnout tracks as a rookie driver backed up (TAD). Once he stopped I moved to the side; a second later the car came by me. He did a dry hop in reverse. Nobody got hurt, but it scared hell out of me.

 

[Nunz]

I didn't realize that Herb was only 39 when he was killed, and that it's been almost 30 years. That was a real sad deal.

 

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What exactly happened in the Herb Parks incident? I know he was hit as Epperly was backing up, but what led up to it?

 

[Cliff]

I saw Buster Couch get knocked down by a car at Pomona, years ago. He was OK but it caused a commotion.

 

[JRW]

What exactly happened in the Herb Parks incident? I know he was hit as Epperly was backing up, but what led up to it?

Id like to know that too. That had to be awful to see in person