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Smokey's "capsule car"

To: "Ray Buck" <rbuck64@comcast.net>, "Albaugh, Neil"
Subject: Smokey's "capsule car"
From: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:19:45 -0500
Bobby Johns has a little Indian Motorcycle shop down the road here in
Lumberton, NC.

JB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Buck" <rbuck64@comcast.net>
To: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 2:51 PM
Subject: RE: Anyone remember the "twin tank"?


> You're absolutely right, Neil.  It didn't qualify.  It was called the
> "capsule car" and Bobby Johns was driving for Smokey in 1964.  They put
> together a heroic effort to get it qualified and then with 4 hours of
> qualifying left, Johns overcooked turn 1 and backed it into the wall.  It
> wasn't a bad crash, but all the stuff in the back of the car was one-off
> custom stuff and they had no way to get it repaired by the end of
qualifying.
>
> I spose Smokey might have tried to thrash on it and get it back together,
> but right after the qualifying crash, he learned that his friend, Fireball
> Roberts had just been killed at Charlotte.
>
> Ray





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