Jim or Romero.....seems one of the pages is missing ( Pg. 73 ?) .....?
I wonder if the author of this piece , Bill Holland is the same fellow who was the editor of the NHRA Publication,
National Dragster ?
Back in time "Dragster" published many of my pictures and stories from Irwindale, Orange County and Ontario Motor Speedway ....how time flies .
Of course it was Wally Parks that published Hot Rod ...the Robert Petersen flagship Magazine.....that formed the Drag Racing organization to get street racers off the streets and on to racing at safe tracks .
Early Kart Racing exploded onto the scene at the same time, the only media that fueled motorsports was the car magazines, newspapers might report accidents and maybe results of big show events like the Indy 500, but if not for car mags.......who would have known what was happening across America at the grass roots of motorsports ?
Just today I found a copy of the April issue of Motor Trend that had Duffy on the front cover.....for what I paid for it now,
I could have had a two year subscription to the magazine, glad that I was even able to purchase a bit of karting history.
Moral of the story here is if no one writes or tells these stories then the era is lost.
Losing the old "Kart Forum" was a big loss for Vintage Karting, all those years of posting Vintage gatherings, how to's,
and the tall tales ......is just a huge loss, thank goodness we have the old magazines in our collections , but they too are crumbling and fading away......I hope some new blood does take an interest in this hobby .
Pic of dragster/ caption :
This Shot Was Taken At The Santa Claus Lane Parade On Hollywood Blvd. In 1969, With Car Co Owner Bill Holland on the Far Right.
And one more pic/caption of editors at National Dragster I use to deal with
Five National DRAGSTER editors got together for a family photo. Back row, from left: George Phillips (1982-85), Phil Burgess (1986-present), and Bill Holland (1969-74); front row, Jim Edmunds (1974-1982) and Dick Wells (1960, 1961-63).
