bigmojo5
#42
3/1/09 7:08 PM
Susannah,
I was there that day Pancho took the orange #77 over the first turn wall during the Vigo County Fair in 1973. He came to a stop near one of the carnival rides. Pancho had a flat tire and was roaring through the field when he jumped over the cushion and away he went. Johnny Parsons -- driving a white #52, I believe -- also flipped during the same feature, running over a tire which came off another car on the backstretch.
Pancho raced later that year in a dark blue #77. I remember Pancho sliding sideways out of turn four under the old walk bridge at Salem in that car. Still can see it as clear as day.
That dark blue #77 was also the car Jan Opperman drove for The Bopper at Salem for the Frostbite 50 in late October or early November of that year. As far as I know, that was the first time Opperman drove on pavement. Definitely his first time on a paved high bank.
I was a Duane "Pancho" Carter Jr., fan and bought a new dark blue Monte Carlo to match it.
Jim Morrison