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Chief Wahoo (Offline)
  #11 8/2/20 3:03 PM
Well I don’t blame them. Who wants to live in CA? Definitely our gain!

Eat dirt, be happy
Let’s go Brandon!!
Bryan Hirshman
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Andrew S. Quinn (Offline)
  #12 8/2/20 3:20 PM
Originally Posted by TQ29m:
Lot of them old guys left their mark on Indiana, by staying, and racing here, there were a lot of them that did, the Flying A stations upstate were owned by Red Amick, nearly any old name you can associate with can be traced back to California, had to be something other than just racing kept them here!
When I first moved to Indiana, I thought it was cool to stop for gas, and AJ Watson would pull in in his Smart Car for fuel too. When I bough my house, my next door neighbor was Willie Davis. A couple of the California connections right in my neighborhood.
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Speedwrench (Offline)
  #13 8/2/20 4:49 PM
Originally Posted by Andrew S. Quinn:
When I first moved to Indiana, I thought it was cool to stop for gas, and AJ Watson would pull in in his Smart Car for fuel too. When I bough my house, my next door neighbor was Willie Davis. A couple of the California connections right in my neighborhood.
The house with Grant King's ( and Dave Laycock's ) old shop or another house ?
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Andrew S. Quinn (Offline)
  #14 8/2/20 8:20 PM
Originally Posted by Speedwrench:
The house with Grant King's ( and Dave Laycock's ) old shop or another house ?
No it was another house,from when he moved back from Florida,after working for Smokey Yunick..
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