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Gearhead Guys You Should Know: AA/Dale Armstrong
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Re: Gearhead Guys You Should Know: AA/Dale Armstrong
I got to meet Dale at the keystones ,years back when he was still tuning Kenny. I won a radio contest and was sopposed to meet Kenny, but he was busy with sponsor deals so i had to wait in his pits . I was taking pics of Dale working on it and he came over and ask me if I got any good shots. We talked for awhile and he invited us back the next day.Reading , Pa
Good Guys rodders rep.
"putting the seat down is women's work" Archie Bunker.
Ban low performance drivers not high performance cars .
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Re: Gearhead Guys You Should Know: AA/Dale Armstrong
ALL TRUE,
and a super-neat guy, too!
Armstrong's first mentor and sponsor, Ron Hammel of 10,000 RPM (whose homemade, high-h.p. engine dyno is likely the one referenced) told me just this month that his company was selling nitrous kits to drag racers in 1967. He STILL won't say whether Double-A Dale ever used the stuff.
Hammel's top-two "shop" cars in the mid-Sixties were probably Armstrong's steel, blown-alcohol Chevy II and Frank Pedregon's AA/Fuel Competition Coupe. No two drag racers ever accomplished more with less. Two nicer guys never existed.
Enjoyin' yer stuff, Brian,
DAVE WALLACE
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