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9/11/09, 3:25 PM   #22
Re: The longest WoO sprint car race - Paragon Speedway, Indiana
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Originally Posted by racephoto1 View Post
The waltz car was beautiful, sorta looked like Pancho's car. The fire was right n front of me. They pulled out the quick fill can too quick, and whooom, in a ball of flame. He got killed very shortly after the 150 lapper.

I remember Butch Wilkerson leading one of the 150's one year in a Seibert car, then the bird cage broke. If it hadn't, nobody would have beat Butch.
This is Butch I broke driving the Siebert Olds car at the LIL 500 in 1979 after leading 144 laps, broke a right rear tortion bar, not the Paragon 150's, but did lead some 150s in Karl Kinsers and Jerry Rones cars but never won one.
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