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08-01-2005 02:47 PM #1
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Safety Safari
You know those guys at the dragstrip who do all the work and are the first one's there to come to the aid of a driver who has crashed??? The Safety Safari. Here's how they started. Having been taken from a car by the Safety Safari Crew, I have all the respect in the world for them. !!!!!!Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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08-01-2005 09:03 PM #2
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safty safri
I rember them coming to the Convair field drag strip in Allentown Pa. in 1955, it was the first time we ran two cars side by side I think it was Aug.21, hay that was 50 years ago, cant rember everything. I was pres. of the Lehigh Valley Timing Assoc. at that time, but the memories are still there. We just had our 50th reunion on May 15.
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08-02-2005 03:05 AM #3
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That goes back a few years, Dick.!!! Do you suppose they even had a clue that the NHRA, drag racing, and Hot Rods in general would ever get this big????Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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08-02-2005 04:50 AM #4
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Wasn't Wally Parks one of the original Safety Safari guys?Old guy hot rodder
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08-03-2005 11:39 AM #5
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I dont think Wally was on the safty safari when it was in Allentown the only one I remmber was Eric Rickman,he was the photographer. I still have my brass dash plaque from 55, never got to compete, blew my trans. in time trials.HRM did goverage in Nov. 55 copy
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08-03-2005 03:00 PM #6
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Not sure if Wally was ever part of the Safety Safari. I worked in a trailer similar to that one at Detroit in "60Ken Thomas
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08-04-2005 07:44 PM #7
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by NTFDAY
[B]Not sure if Wally was ever part of the Safety Safari. I worked in a trailer similar to that one at Detroit in "60
Where you there when T for Two blew the flywheel. I think it was Sat. after shut down.]
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08-04-2005 08:04 PM #8
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I was only there on Sunday. The Steel Eel (C/A ) was caught running nitrous? after beating the High and Mighty in the finals.
At the time I was a member of a NHRA car club from Dayton, Ohio.Ken Thomas
NoT FaDe AwaY and the music didn't die
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