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Online Stan Back

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Joe Turner
« on: December 18, 2020, 04:14:42 PM »
Joe "Goofy" Turner of San Bernardino passed away earlier this week.  Joe and Jim Amrhein successfully ran the Strait-Away Engineering Roadster in a variety of usually fuel classes at Bonneville and El Mirage with Chrysler Slant-6 and Chevy Small Block motors.  They later ran a Blown Fuel Altered roadster in Drag Racing.  Joe crewed for Big Jim Dunn's Funny Car for years.
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Re: Joe Turner
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2020, 10:00:48 AM »
Jim, was Joe part of Team Fercockta that still holds the 1975 D/BFR at El Mirage @223+ that Jim Amrhein drove.
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Re: Joe Turner
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2020, 12:22:52 PM »
You betcha!  I think the 45-year-old record got broken this year and there was some hoopla about putting 40 or so MPH on the existing record.  That's less than 1 MPH per year.  Big deal.
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