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383man damn that 66 Dart is wadded up !!, did you get hurt much ??... Looks like you wouldn't be here now, if you didn't have that roll bar....

Yes I got beat up pretty bad. It rolled about 6 times they tell me as it happened in the traps about 113 mph. I got a helicopter ride to Shock Trauma as I had internal bleeding. I have a 12" scar across my stomach where they cut me open. I also still have pins in my right ankle where I broke it and they did surgery on my left knee that was banged up real good. I also had cuts and bruises all over my body. But the rollbar and seat belts saved my life for sure. Here a pic of it before I rolled it. Ron

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Too bad that car was nice... I've had some bad wrecks in Drag racing but never so bad I was hauled off... I too got to go for a Helicopter ride, to the trauma center in Mendocino Ca. {I think it was}, I was racing at Callistoga Ca., subbing for a friend, in a Winged Out-Law Sprint & barrel rolled & spinning like a top, down a straight away, after running up some guys rear tires, in a pile up, then flipped into the catch net/fencing & abruptly stopped, it tore a bunch of the membranes that holds your internal organs in place in my chest cavity...Ouch, I was out for a while... I haven't raced Sprints since 1988 {I think}, just drag racing only now, I have done that since 1975...
 
Its funny as they said I was talking when they took me out of the car but I dont remember any of it. I dont remember crashing either ? I only remember walking around in the staging lanes waiting for them to take my lane and then I remember waking up 12 hrs later. Funny how your brain must block it out as I know it happened but I do not remember the crash at all and I dont even remember getting into the car in the staging lanes. Ron
 
Its funny as they said I was talking when they took me out of the car but I dont remember any of it. I dont remember crashing either ? I only remember walking around in the staging lanes waiting for them to take my lane and then I remember waking up 12 hrs later. Funny how your brain must block it out as I know it happened but I do not remember the crash at all and I dont even remember getting into the car in the staging lanes. Ron

:werd: I know the only reason I know anything about it, was all my buddies told me over & over how cool/violent it was & there were a few still photos of it some were, I do remember driving to the track, some small stuff in between, with small tid bits of racing that day, my last good clear memeory of that day, was going thru tech. line, that afternoon, joking with my buddies, getting strapped in, the rest is kind of garbled...
 
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