Rick Mandelson's Scrapbook

In the winner's circle, after winning the WBMD Disk Jockey race. 
This '55 Chevy belonged to Pete Hughes. We ran snow tires on the back... super poverty. So, what I use to do was lean on somebody with bigger tires in the turns, bounce of him... then pick on somebody else in the next turn!
I drove this #54 when it was green. At a race at Williams Grove, the straps broke on the car in front of me and the gas tank fell out on the track. I hit the gas tank, shot up into the air... and I'm looking down at the crowd in the stands! That's how high up I was. I had presence of mind to turn the ignition off, so I wouldn't go up in a roman candle... it just flopped back down on its wheels. Then, they painted it red and it did pretty well after that. 

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