A very scary ASA moment - MIS 09/26/82
A very scary ASA moment - MIS 09/26/82
Do tell the story.Originally Posted by roach
The Ayn Rand of Indycar
No one had to badge the Offy.
Thats alotta gasoline
Faster than a bullet from a gun
He is faster than everyone
Quicker than the blinking of an eye
Like a flash you could miss him going by
No one knows quite how he does it but it's true they say
He's the master of going faster. -George Harrison
Donnie Allison in the 18 is correct. The 02 is Dick Trickle in 1983.
Keith Koether http://www.kkraceshots.com
Ex ARCA, ASA and local bullring crewdog. I remember when racing was really racing and the Talladega Express!!!
I can't get 'em all
My guess is oil. Those cars all ran dry sumps and it was common to mount the oil tank right behind the driver. Possibly a broken oil line.
Got it. I assumed that was 15-20 gallons of gasoline dumping out onto the headers
'course a one inch oil line would make some flame too
Especially if the engine's still running.I've also got some old ASA and ARCA stuff too if anyone is interested.
Last edited by kkoether; 03-01-2011 at 10:00 PM.
Hell ya!Especially if the engine's still running.
Ya reckon he backed in hard and broke the line?
I'm thinking the lines were zip tied to the cage along the drivers side of the cage and maybe tore loose as he ran backwards along the wall. Oil usually leaves that kind of black smoke and a lot of flame. He may have crushed the dry sump tank when he crushed the back end. They're made of spun aluminum and hold several gallons of oil.
....or, an oil line might have let go and that's what caused him to hit the wall. Seen that happen too.
Awesome pic! is that High Dynamic Range? It really gives a good sense of how it would've looked being there.Start at Asheville-Weaverville in the 50s...
Some fans claim one series or another runs "real race cars." What's everybody else running, fake race cars? :confused:
INDYCAR - NOW IZODIER THAN EVER!
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Only made one taxicab race... At Meadowdale in Carpentersville Il... circa 1960.
USAC race. I promised Kev I'd contribute SOMETHING!
That's what happens when you turn oval track guys loose on a road corse....
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"Doc, just set them fingers sose I can hold the wheel"
James Hurtubise, June, 1964
I haven't looked at these pictures in over 20 years.......I believe they are from the '87 Pocono race Richmond won......oddly enough these 4 photos were in line, what a difference a few years made
It's sad to know that we lost all four of those drivers
Deeper in the deck was a picture of Alan Kulwicki's car......what might have beenIt's sad to know that we lost all four of those drivers
Lots of Great pictures showing up here. I'll get some more of mine up tonight after work. I've got plenty left!
Here is the picture of Alan being followed by Kyle Petty (from recollection)
You can clearly see the left front go off camber as they go through the turn. Great photos
I was in the flagstand. As I recall, the car came through the trioval and we spotted what looked like tire smoke from the right rear. I informed the tower and got out the black flag, but he never made it back around.
So the tire went and he backed it in?
Man some pics of "real" stock cars.
I think Kulwicki almost won his first at Pocono around that time. I forget who won but he was right there and like Kyle @ Dover a few years earlier, the crowd was going out of their minds hoping to see #7 finally win oneHere is the picture of Alan being followed by Kyle Petty (from recollection)
I was hitting both June and July races up on the mountain in those days. Good times
It was the 1987 Summer 500 at Pocono that Alan Kulwicki almost won but was pasted by Dale Earnhardt on the final lap.
Looks like a gasoline fire to me...
Ignorant men marvel at extraordinary things. Intelligent men admire simple things.
Rusty Wallace hero card from 1984
edit: something didnt look right about this image so I pulled the card back out of the album. The Victory Lane shot of Rusty has him in a Kodiak suit. He wasnt sponsored by Kodiak until years later Somewhere along the way I taped the victory lane pic onto the hero card.
Trevor Boys hero card from 1984
God is in the details. Compare the noses of the Hylton car to that of Cale's #28. No disrespect to Hylton, but there's a difference in fit and finish and those differences meant tenths on the track.
What was the story with Trevor Boys and James Hylton? They ran many races under the Hylton-McCaig banner.
Damn they used to race backwards?Only made one taxicab race... At Meadowdale in Carpentersville Il... circa 1960.
USAC race. I promised Kev I'd contribute SOMETHING!
ZOOOM
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