The old movie they have there about the 1965 AHRA Winternationals is both nostalgic and sad.
All those familiar name, with many now in the big drag meet in the sky, to me, seems like it could have been filmed just a couple of years ago yet it has been one year shy of fifty.
It was part about Tom Hoover, the winner, being from Minneapolis.
Back in the seventies I went to visit Headers by Ed, who was not only in Minneapolis but literally out his garage.
I drove down an alley in what could have been, except the yards in Minneaopolis are forty feet narrower, any alley in my home town, pulled up in front of his garage, the kind that comes with a residential house.
We spoke about what I wanted to do for my Mustang, in the end he said I should see if I could not find a cheaper way to do it as his work was going to be a few hundred dollars higher but if I could not to come on back and he would do it for me.
Lordy how I miss the days when automotive work places looked more like converted brooder shops than than the million dollar tin sheds they have nowadays.
The last one in my hometown came down about fifteen years ago, but it was fascinating.
The main former barn with various size lean-toos expanding the work place with a drive through, the barn drive-way..
It had an old brick paver stone floor and the wonderful smell that come with oil soaked dirt.
I grew up in the part of town with a lot of surving full size hay-mow barns being used as the garage with the old hay-mow bale loading door facing the alley.
Even without air-conditioning, life was better then.
It is supposed to be MCG not mgc.
Edited by Bob Riebe, 19 March 2015 - 20:53.
