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4/28/08, 11:45 PM   #6
Re: Triva/dizz Wilson
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Originally Posted by bigmojo5 View Post
I've got pictures of the Lyle Roberts roadster after Duke Cook busted it up on the front stretch at New Bremen while qualifying in 1974.

I believe you can add Johnny Rutherford to the list of Dizz Wilson drivers. If I've go the story right, Rutherford flipped and Dizz fired him before the car came to a stop.

Believe another was Gene Aldridge, from Gibson County, Ind., probably before World War II. When I worked at the Princeton newspaper in the early 1980s, a race car sat in the front yard being used as a flower planter. Supposedly, it had been owned by Dizz Wilson at one time and was purchased by Aldridge for the motor and possibly the powertrain. The last time I saw the car it was in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Museum as a display on what type of condition in which some museum pieces are originally found. NOT JOHNNY RUTHERFORD! IT WAS JACK ROUNDS THAT DIZZ FIRED WHILE SETTING ON A STACK OF TIRES EATING A HOT DOG! AT ST. PAUL

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