Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

[cjforumadmin]

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Great-Read-An-Interview-with-Drag-Legend-Tommy-Ivo.html

[malc]

Re: Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

There is a CD with the 1/18 diecast of Tommies four motored dragster.
Shows you how to assemble his dragster, plus scenes from his acting career.

http://www.supercar1.com/catalog/ind...oducts_id=2200

[studemax]

Re: Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

One of the greats!
It goes without saying, drag racing wouldn't be nearly as cool without Tommy!

[rattler]

Re: Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

The better interview was with Ralph Nader. Like him or not, he did more "good" for the general population than Brock "Cannonball Run" Yates ever thought he did. In any case, the Ross Perot quote about GM was on point and epic!

[studemax]

Re: Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

You're trying to compare Nader and Yates?
You call yourself a car guy?
Ceee-riminy.

[457Brodix]

Re: Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

"TV Tommy Ivo" was the Ultimate Showman, his vehicles were always first class and so were his one of a kind Tow Rigs! there's also an Ivo tale about him racing in Union Grove Wisconsin one day and somewhere in Texas the next day and this was before the day of multiple cars and Interstates being tied together! National Dragster made note of it and said if there were a "tow mph" record he would own it!

[rattler]

Re: Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

You're trying to compare Nader and Yates?

No, never! Nader is a brilliant arrogant misguided missile. Yates is an arrogant Neanderthal with a stone ax. Both caused damaged to the auto industry. The biggest difference is that Nader also brought safety, quality, and efficiency to the US car makers, where as Yates never got passed driving 120+mph across the country. What would you think of Yates if he would have blown a tire during his legendary "Cannonball Run" and wiped out a family going to gramma's in a station wagon? Wasn't there some guy by the name of Wally Parks who promoted safety quality and efficiency in a controlled settting? Isn't that what true performance is all about? Just this "car guys" humble opinion.......................

[studemax]

Re: Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

Yates point was that skilled drivers in well maintained vehicles could safely cross the country on good highways at higher than posted speeds. He was correct, was he not?

I disagree that Yates caused "damage to the auto industry".
Further, I do not find him to be arrogant, and certainly not a Neanderthal.

And as great a man as Wally was, he truly did NOT believe that hot rods existed outside of California.
Why do you think he and Garlits disliked each other so much?

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

And as great a man as Wally was, he truly did NOT believe that hot rods existed outside of California.
Why do you think he and Garlits disliked each other so much?

I suppose that's why the US Nationals were always held in the center of the country, just to give those California boys an excuse to see the countryside.

The Garlits and Parks dynamic was driven by a list of things. Geography would be pretty close to the bottom.

Brian

[studemax]

Re: Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

Listen, many of the old timers who knew & raced with Wally (and other California hot rodders of his age) felt the same way.
Their stance was that hot rods were "invented" in California, and anywhere else was simply a pale imitation.
I didn't just think this up, ya know.