From: fastmetalbdf@aol.com
To: land-speed@autox.team
CC: j.demmitt@att.net
Sent: 1/8/2010 3:14:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Bob Tasca, longtime Ford Dealer & drag racing sponsor ~
I just now learned today that Bob Tasca passed away, either today or
yesterday, at age 83 ..... his name became famous with the many drag cars he
sponsored as his dealership grew larger . Bob started working for Ford back
in 1943 and went on to own his first dealership in Bristol, RI, in 1953. A
large Tasca dealership is now run by his family in Cranston, RI, near
Providence. Many of us oldtime local drag fans/racers recall seeing Big Bob
standing up near the starting line at Connecticut Dragway when one of the
many drag cars he sponsored over the years was about to make a run ......
Billy Lawton drove Tasca Fords to fame across America in super stock and
factory experimental classes, with such cars as the Mystery 9 Mustang and
Zimmy
1, and Bob's own grandson carries on the Tasca Ford name today on a nitro
funny car that he drives on the NHRA national drag circuit. Bob was a shrewd
businessman who realized that a Ford win on Sunday often meant more Ford
sales in the showrooms on Monday, and obviously he shared our love for
racing and fast cars. That was the era of storming Ford Thunderbolts,
Galaxies,
and big time factory involvement, with so many other makes of bad-ass
muscle cars ready to duke it out with those Fords .... for Fame as well as
Fortune .... at drag strips every weekend ! ...... much great racing before
the
wilder FX cars evolved into today's plastic-fantastic Funnycars, and the
other colorful class of crowd-pleasing cars: the wheelstanding gassers of
those years, took a back seat to the big-buck pro-stocks, still present at
national meets.
Bruce in CT. ..... where it is too danged cold for most all of us
..... except, of course, our Ice & Snow Guru, Jon W. ~ Any heat in your
garage, Jon ...... or is that just for us sissies ? LOL ~
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