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Posted By Ol Ford Guy 19 Years Ago
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Ol Ford Guy
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I was surfing the internet recently and came across a couple of interesting sites.  There are sites for US 30 Dragway in Indiana and Oswego Dragway in Illinois.  People are trying to compile old photos and information on these tracks.  I made many trips down both of these drag strips in the 55-63 time frame.  If you don't find them via Google, I will go get the addresses and post them.  I also ran at Union Grove and Lake Geneva in Wisconsin.  In recent years I have run at Cordova, but didn't in the "old days".

Paul J. - '57 E Code
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DANIEL TINDER
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About 1965? I was out on the strip, standing by the stage lights at US-30, when a guy who used to campaign a 427 Thunderbolt launched his brand-new, ultra-light, fiberglass Mustang powered with twin Turbine-iques. The xmas-tree light system had just been installed, and when he hit the ignition button the car went totally out of control and took out the tree. Does ANYONE remember this incident or his name? They used to promo his Thunderbolt grudge-match meets on WLS AM radio a week in advance. (SUNDAY-SUNDAY-SUNDAYYY!!!!!) This has been bugging me for about 10 years! The way things are going, it won't be long before I forget my OWN name.

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA



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