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11/16/08, 11:04 AM   #6
Re: CRA - Eldora - 5/7/93
Fisher79
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A little addition to the trivia:

- After it took a good long bit to get the Evans 79 back over the wall and get the fence somewhat patched up, Hewitt came down to dad's pit and was pleading with him to get the car back together because he was running so well before the crash. Obviously that didn't happen.

- Surprisingly, the motor wasn't hurt even though it screamed to the tune of 9200 rpm during the flip. That was a big, big number back then. The digital tach that was in that car is used to this day in the Edison 10E. Unless it didn't survive Weir's season-ending crash at Kokomo.

- The frame bent in the flip was a Gambler car, I don't remember the year. In the week following the crash, Dad and the guys who helped us back then (Monte, Jerry Davis and others) re-assembled the car with the '89 Gambler used the year before. The ensuing Sunday, Dad won the opener at Kokomo with a primer-gray hood and mostly primer-gray tank. "Spot" was what they called it.