Anybody ever heard of this Ron Pellegrini guy? ;) (1 Viewer)
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He was Fiberglass LTD.
stitcherbob
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I was just one of the lucky ones who was around in drag racing infancy and got to see its many stages of growing up. Got to be friends with many them and can say that it continues to today.
Ron Pellegrini
www.ronpellegriniracing.com
Ron Pellegrini
www.ronpellegriniracing.com
Ron singlehandedly got me Funny Car Racing. He was the guy who hooked me up with R & B Automotive who built my first injected Funny Car. He helped me for the first year or two and assisted in teaching me business. I could go on and on about his involvement in the building of the Funny Car class.
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Ron, if I may,
what are your thoughts about the whole nostalgia funny car movement and how many of them are making the bodies aerodynamic, smooth, shapeless, swoopy blobs like pro-mods?
Thank you for your contributions to racing. I love funny cars. I fell in love with them in the late 70's at Fremont Ca's Baylands raceway.
what are your thoughts about the whole nostalgia funny car movement and how many of them are making the bodies aerodynamic, smooth, shapeless, swoopy blobs like pro-mods?
Thank you for your contributions to racing. I love funny cars. I fell in love with them in the late 70's at Fremont Ca's Baylands raceway.
good guy....
Johnny Ringo
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Made a bunch of bodies back in the glory days!
Hey Bob, long time no see! How you been man?
Ron Pelligrini's contributions to drag racing are almost beyond counting. More than 90% of the men and women racing Funny Cars in the 60s, 70s and into the 80s were running Fiberglass Ltd.-built bodies. In addition to all of the development work Pelligrini did on those early bodies he was a prominent member of Midwest UDRA when it counted, personally running more than one of the numerous circuits of booked-in cars they fielded. He was, and continues to be, forward-thinking regarding all aspects of drag racing. Stunning as it may seem to our younger readers, Pelligrini actually drag raced on a dirt track in Illinois in the late 50s. He also drove for some guy named "TV Tom" Ivo, and with the Mustang body he mounted on an Altered frame it could be argued that he had the first blown F/C in the country. He also had a classic confrontation with Wally Parks in a hotel parking lot in Indy in the early 60s that resulted in Wally never speaking to Pelligrini again! (I'll let him tell that one if he cares to!) There's no question about how influential Pelligrini was in helping Don Schumacher get started, as Don indicated earlier. I know because I was lucky enough to have been there, too. And yes, Ron also influenced my career at a time when I was struggling to get started. He was incredibly supportive and helpful, and I've certainly never forgotten it.
Jon Asher
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Drag Racing Edge Magazine
Jon Asher
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CompetitionPlus.com
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Drag Racing Edge Magazine
Randy
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Hans Kuesel rented a Mercedes Benz and did the same thing to make a TA/FC body.
mltdwn12
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When they did this, did they make a mold off of the body and then lay up a glass reproduction or did they just put wax and release agent on the car and the glass that was laid on was the final product after some smoothing out?
