dyno don passing through Antioch IL

[black69]

I stopped by a friend that been a sprint car racer all his life this evening, and he told me a cool story from back in the day.

he said years ago, dyno don came through antioch IL with his rare comet and he was around with them working on the car. He said dyno don blew the rear end during a run and in a hurry, they put the rear end in without realizing the oil fill plug was in the 'wrong place' they expected (there was I guess a top and a side fill plug option). He remembers them not having time to do anything other than tilt the car on its side to get the oil in, or pull and axle to load it, something crazy but thats what they did to the car.

he also said dyno don was experimenting with hydrazine on the runs, and he said that was beyond dangerous stuff. He knew a few other racers that blew things up pretty bad with that stuff. I never heard of that stuff until today.

It does make you wonder what was really in those gas tanks back in the day when those great times were made. I was telling him the urban legend tricks behind waybe county speed shop hemi's and he sprung that dyno don passing through antioch IL story on me. pretty cool.