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This may be a repost, I know we talked about this type of racing before but I don't recall seeing this footage...So freakin awesome!
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If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue -
Re: Great American Truck Race, Atlanta 1980...Trucks, Speed...
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could you imagine wheeling one of those monsters at 125 into a corner? on regular street tires? so bad ass!If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark DonohueComment
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Re: Great American Truck Race, Atlanta 1980...Trucks, Speed...
My Dad and I watched that live when it aired on CBS in 80, we rooted for the lone Brockway ;D
Here are a few of the photos I posted last year that started all the talk of big rig racing.
I took these at the Syracuse Mile in 86
This is Charlie Baker's KW, and what 6 years of evolution did for it
The winner that day, drove by Barefoot Bob McCreadie
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