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Tim and Kim retiring!
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The Counterfeiter
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Re: The General's Last Stand???
Best wishes to Tim and Kim on a well deserved opportunity to relax and enjoy themselves. That number on your driver's license means something - get out and do what you have always wanted while you have the chance!
Best wishes to Tim and Kim on a well deserved opportunity to relax and enjoy themselves. That number on your driver's license means something - get out and do what you have always wanted while you have the chance!
Wow an end of an era, I remember when Tim was building super stock engines in the northeast and then went on to supply HEMI motors for TAD racers Chet Rickard, Bill Walsh, Joe Amato, and Charlie Bauer. if I recall Frank Manzo was a customer as well, all during the same season. You would often hear a customer ask "wheres da general?" when they advanced rounds (as they so often did) and needed the next round tuneup, You could write a book on Tim"s accomplishments, When Amato upgraded to Top Fuel Tim closed his racing engine business and started making Top Fuel history with "ludicrous speed'. Anyone know what super stock or other sportsman drivers used his engines back then?
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A retirement of a pair of crewchiefs that have had such a huge impact in the sport is begging for a historical article, I am hoping someone picks up the pen for a full biography of the two.
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A retirement of a pair of crewchiefs that have had such a huge impact in the sport is begging for a historical article, I am hoping someone picks up the pen for a full biography of the two.
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Leebone
Nitro Member
I miss the beer wars with Dicko vs The General. Being a Dixon fan, Tim and Kim really frustrated me at times, especially in 2001. However, I will miss them and will always miss the rivalry. They're two of the best. I wish nothing but a bright future for them. They've given me plenty of thrills, whether I liked it or not. 
Leebone
Leebone
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Nitro Member
When I read this last night I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I never expected them to retire, at least not for many more years. I hope their retirement is nothing but enjoyable, they've worked hard and accomplished much and I can understand why they feel it's time for a change of pace.
to see them go, but wish them all the best and happy retirement.
Tony Barraza Designworks
Nitro Member
Just throwing this out there...
We've all read the press release...BUT...is there ANY possibility that Tim and Kim are headed to DSR for the Army car gig? "Retiring to Brownsburg?" LOL!
I mean, the retirement decision/announcement seems to have come on rather quickly, no?
Seems like if this were a true, legit "retirement" deal, that it would have been decided/announced earlier in the season.
The DSR/Army gig is a level befitting "Mr. & Mrs. General".
Not trying to be "conspiracy theory guy", just throwing out a "what if" scenario.
Hmmmmmmm..........
Discuss.......
We've all read the press release...BUT...is there ANY possibility that Tim and Kim are headed to DSR for the Army car gig? "Retiring to Brownsburg?" LOL!
I mean, the retirement decision/announcement seems to have come on rather quickly, no?
Seems like if this were a true, legit "retirement" deal, that it would have been decided/announced earlier in the season.
The DSR/Army gig is a level befitting "Mr. & Mrs. General".
Not trying to be "conspiracy theory guy", just throwing out a "what if" scenario.
Hmmmmmmm..........
Discuss.......
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n/a
Nitro Member
Possibly they were waiting until they faded in the countdown so as not to disrupt team chemistry. If after the countdown began and you were near the top of the pack you wouldn't want any unnecessary distractions.
Sean D, shondoo
Nitro Member
I kinda' get the same drift, Tony. I guess I didn't necessarily have a team in mind that they may go to, but like you, I think it's awfully late in the season to be announcing a retirement. If the relationship with KB was new, maybe. But they've been there for what seems like forever, and it seems like it would've been announced at the end of last season or the beginning of this one and been much more formal
I'm with you (hesitantly)...........I think they'll end up somewhere else.
Sean D
I was NITRO BREATH
Nitro Member
Well-- I was thinking the same thing when I first found out. The gen and Kim are going to DSR. If that happens GREAT. If not--- I wish them both the best. Kim and her dad and the General are three people that are woven into the fiber of my drag racing experience. From the very begining of my love of the sport they have been there. I have watched them in the pits. Kim especially has impressed me. I don't know her personally at all, but watching her work on the car with that determined look on her face says alot about how she got so far. In this era of so many women coming into the sport I have often thought how exciting it would be for kim to crew chief for someone like Melanie or Ashley. Now it seems that won't happen. The first time I ever traveled to another state to see a race was Gainseville 1988. We were staying in Cedar Key which is about an hour from the track. A few days before the race we were walking out of a restaurant and there was Dick taking in the sight with his wife. I introduced myself as a fan and we talked for a few minutes.Dick LaHaie- wow I thought that was very cool!!
So if in fact Tim And Kim are leaving the sport there will not be a LaHaie in the NHRA and that is a big loss for the sport.
So if in fact Tim And Kim are leaving the sport there will not be a LaHaie in the NHRA and that is a big loss for the sport.
