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THE FIRST TIME YOU SMELLED NITRO ?????? Where ? When ?
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Permalink Reply by gary Brock on -
At the US Nationals @ INDY 1964
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Permalink Reply by Wally Bell on -
Nitro....nectar of the gods.....
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Permalink Reply by Wally Bell on
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It never gets old.....
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Permalink Reply by Jon W. Lundberg, Sr. on
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First time I smelled nitro was August of 1954 during the NHRA Safety Safari event at a yet-to-be-opened entrance drive to a new GM plant on Eckles Road in Livonia, MI. Ain't been the same since!
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Permalink Reply by Bruce Wheeler on -
CH3NO2! Probably at my very first drag race, the grand opening of the Houston Drag Raceway (midway between Houston and Galveston), in June of 1957. I was sixteen, and spending the summer with my father that year. While I can't say for sure if I actually smelled nitro at that event (not having a clue what it might be, if, indeed, I did smell it), I know there were a good number of nitro-fueled cars at that race. I do know, without a doubt, that I got a good whiff of it at York, in August of '60, when Garlits first warmed his motor prior to a series of three exhibition singles he made that evening.
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Permalink Reply by Wally Bell
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nectar of the gods
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Permalink Reply by John R. Bockelman -
Bruce, Houston Drag Raceway was where I attended my first event with my Dad as well! As I posted earlier, it was a match race between Vance Hunt and Bobby Langley, and I got doused with nitro. It made me crazy for the rest of my life...I was 12 in '62 and I'll never forget that day. It's gone now, civilization took over and it's a strip-mall (at least "strip" applies). Gay Pontiac is still there on the freeway in Dickinson, but it's now Gay Buick GMC. Wish Shane would keep the family tradition going! JB
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