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Al Consoli (Offline)
  #1 3/27/23 9:14 AM
...Seems like yesterday but it's been 50 years....

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NoDramazone2020 (Offline)
  #2 3/27/23 9:42 AM
wow, Karl had a few nasty ones during his career .....I think he went out of the park at Winchester also????
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TommyTipover (Offline)
  #3 3/27/23 10:56 AM
I know Karl flipped on Winchester’s backstretch but don’t know if he actually went over the wall.
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Stevensville Mike (Offline)
  #4 3/27/23 10:58 AM
Thanks for sharing yet more classic pics, Al.

In the last pic it looks to me that the seat he is in is no longer centered under the roll cage? Almost like the cockpit shifted left under the cage.

Violent stuff.

Chiming in live from the West Coast of Michigan.... Mike
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cowboyhar69 (Offline)
  #5 3/27/23 12:22 PM
Karl always wore a cowboy hat! Great guy who drove for his father in law Bernie Cedoz.



Tim Wolffrum aka Cowboy
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captrat (Offline)
  #6 3/27/23 4:49 PM
Was there at Reading and Winchester. He also had a big one at Knoxville.
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Pitdad (Offline)
  #7 3/28/23 12:25 AM
Originally Posted by Stevensville Mike:
Violent stuff.
Absolutely violent. Consider that the left rear wheel isn’t a double rolled, cold drawn, T-6 aluminum shell that you’d see today. That’s an old school steel rim. And it’s bent before he’s even hit the wall. Terrifying energy.
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