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#471949 I'm down to a few drag racers and some Indy cars and I will
Posted by Josh Shy on Tuesday Nov 10, 2026 at 10:30AM
be done taking new pictures of all my models. There is a story to tell here, that I have heard over and over and over and...(you get the idea)...over. Dad had a local speed shop called Jeg's do some head work on a set of 427 open chamber aluminum heads he had but they broke several valve guides in the process. A guy named Sam Park was running Jeg's shop at the time and they almost got into a fight right there in the shop. The problem was resolved and dad and Sam became friends (Sam later raced a rear engine dragster himself in the nineties) and somewhere in the mid seventies or so, it was Spring Nationals time and then they were held right here in Columbus Ohio. Dad was to meet Sam at a Frisches Restaurant that was at I71 and Hudson St for breakfast and then go to the National's. dad was late and when he walked in there was Sam sitting with this little guy, what was his name....oh yeah Don Garlits! They sat in a both by the front window and while eating a few scraggily looking people came in and sat at the both behind them, it was John Liberman. From that day on dad was in love with Jungle Pam. John unfortunately died just a couple of years later, so sad.







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