Carroll Shelby and Sport Compact Drag Racing . He especially liked the flash-in-the-pan NHRA Sport Compact Series, not worrying one whit that the foreign rides would threaten the domestic market. "Drag racing is what a lot of them can afford to get into," he said of today's young racers. "These little pocket rockets, they get 100,000 people out there at Palmdale (Calif.) on Friday and Saturday for these kids to run those little front-wheel-drive cars. They're running 175 miles an hour in the quarter-mile. You think of the technology that it takes for these kids to take a gearbox that's built for 100 horsepower and take one of these little Hondas or Toyotas or Focuses or whatever it is and run 1,000 horsepower through that thing. You talk about innovation of the hot-rodders in the '30s -- it's nothing compared with what thousands of these kids are able to do today. A Hot Rodder that thought a lot of you guy's .

 

I got to say "Hi" to the man once.

A tragic loss indeed. RIP

 

RIP

 

Huge loss! He was just working on a twin turbo mustang with a goal of 230mph too.

Lived every minute to the fullest for sure.

RIP

 

A great loss to the industry, RIP

 

no surprise to hear he had an interest in our stuff. he was way ahead of the pack when he got involved with dodge and made the GLH cars.
RIP
-Roger

 

I read this also, Roger took the words out of my mouth with the dodge stuff.