Thread: Roy Robbins
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7/5/14, 3:16 PM   #7
Re: Roy Robbins
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Looking for Cotton Priddy I came up with a picture of "FIDO" and its driver Andy Hampton. This was taken when old Fido was in it's glory days, sure doesn't look like the car Roy won Knoxville with.

http://kentuckymotorsportshalloffame.com/Ovals.html scroll down a little ,looks like the pic was taken outside of Harry Hydes transmission shop.

Those slicks were recaps by Racemaster notice the dental work around the tread, the whitewall were said to have better side bite. There wasn't any stagger in them tires back then the driver had to correct for the slippage between inside and outside tires by doing that stuff they called driving. Thinking back on things now I am surprised Harry didn't think about stagger.


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