13 September 2007

Guess I got spoiled living in Garden Grove in the 60's and 70's... wasn't a weekend that there wasn't a Nitro show... be it Rails, AA/FA, Jr. Fuels, or Floppers...

And I became Addicted to Floppers...

69 sticks out to me, that was the first year Dad would drop me off at the track a 8AM and come pick me up around 11pm.... you could do that back in the 'Leave it to Beaver' days... there I was, a 14 years old, 6'1, and a 140 pounds (I've...

Karl Stalcup

12 September 2007

Getting a little out of order here, let's take a pass on the '68 mfg meet for a couple of minutes and fast forward to the mid-seventies...

Fox Hunts... Put butts in the seats, but took away a Saturday at the Drags from Something I'd take a date to, into a place I wouldn't want to be unarmed... guess my take was it became 'the thing to do'... oh, yeah, there's cars there too. People didn't go for the race, it was just the Hot Lick, The Place to BE......

Karl Stalcup

11 September 1954

Bainbridge Island, Washington:
3am... Daisy Hendricks noticed is was quiet, too quiet in the bassinet... first male child in the Hendrick family in almost 40 years... She sees he's stopped breathing.... Her daughter Karin Lee was sleeping... it had been a rough night needless to say... Grandma and mother were alone in the clinic... somehow, Daisy got her grandson to start breathing again.... and held him the rest of the night. The Doc and nurse arrived back...

Karl Stalcup

10 September 2007

Threw it out to a few friends, one's too busy sanding to get back to me, one's sleeping in Japan, or is it Thailand this week, one said it was up to me, and the one with the pretty eyes said go fer it. So here we go.

I've been around drag racing since the mid sixties... Whom ever lived the the home we moved into on Anthony Ave in Garden Grove in '64, left a set of 392 heads... I was ten at the time...

I was 13 the first time I went to...

Karl Stalcup