Bruce;
Thanks for the news link. Bangshift.com also has more.
Thanks again. Condolences to the Tasca Family.
http://www.bangshift.com
Tom Shannon
Magna, Utah
> From: fastmetalbdf@aol.com
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:23:14 -0500
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Land-speed] Fwd: Bob Tasca, longtime Ford Dealer & drag racing
sponsor ~
>
> 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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