Thread: Safety Safari

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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. !!!!!!

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.

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????

Wasn't Wally Parks one of the original Safety Safari guys?

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

Not sure if Wally was ever part of the Safety Safari. I worked in a trailer similar to that one at Detroit in "60

[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.]

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.