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Originally Posted by Harden21
The one time I went down there to race, we were the first ones at the track. Practiced way to much, had the gear all wrong ( running alone is much different than race conditions ) Met and fell in love with Dick's daughter, I was like 17 and the pretty lady with that sweet Georgia drawl had me tripping over my own feet! We ran the piston port class with our brand new Komet K-71. My dad raced there in 1975. He ran and won his share of IKF and WKA stuff back in the early 70's with a Komet K88. We raced WKA dirt at Johnson City Tn. and Dick wilson was the pit steward, and during the drivers meeting he told us the way it was. Needless to say things went smooth. I wish the man who put that track in along with Beechnut would call LPS and give them some pointers, his tracks were awesome!
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Dickie Wilson had a way, of getting his point across, and unless you were real stupid, you learned early, who the boss was, something that Nelson was soon to learn. Yes, he did have a rather fetching daughter, much too young for the likes of any of us, except maybe Tony, and he was too busy then even. We were running the Open 2-smoke classes, Terry and I were running the 135cc direct drive, International class, and the rest of the guys were running K88's and K78's. That was before all the plastic, and 4-stroke's! Bob
