my first dragster ride

[digger]

sitting here yesterday thinking about rick arnold the guy that owned the first dragster i drove. found his phone # in ct , called and left a message an hour later he calls back, and low and behold he is not in ct he is 1 hour east of me down here in florida,going to see him today, i haven’t seen him since 1974. should be fun. he also worked at redman chevrolet with me and joe tanner

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[dinoKeymaster]

Thats the White Lightning corvair powered rear engine thingie,for you ‘youngin’s’…..see more here:
http://www.doverdragstrip.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=497&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=lightning
this topic goes back to 2008…my ,my,… how time flies…..Speaking of Florida…Harry Laplatte reminds me How many “snow birds” spend the winter down there. This find of Diggers ,a perfect example..Going into The Mike Kelly Florida Cruise news to alert any, lost in the sunshine state, Dover Guys.

………We got it all here someplace….just got to use search 😀

[digger]

What a day today! My wife and I drove over to Lake Placid, FL to see Rick and April Arnold who I haven’t seen in almost 40 years. I remembered April as being tall and pretty and that’s still the case. Rick looks almost the same as he did 40 years ago when we worked at Redman Chevrolet. Redman was my first job when I came out of the Army in 1967. That’s where I met Rick, who was one of the best mechanics there. I was driving a 1962 Corvette in those days. I was a used car mechanic with my $29.00 box of tools from Sears. About a month and a half after working there, Rick came to me one day and said “hey kid how would you like to drive a dragster for me”. Without Rick I probably would never have had a dragster. He was my Mentor and after our visit today he’s still my Mentor. I drove away pumped right up the same way I did 40 years ago when he first asked me to drive for him.

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