Not LSR related but the last "Surfer" passes away. The team of Skinner, Sorokin and Jobe came on the drag racing scene in the 60's, kicked some major A-- for a few years, and left. The laid back "appearing" attitude fooled many but not those who knew them.
Over the last year Tom shared with all of us the Surfers exploits on You Tube with 50 fifteen minute interviews which are well worth watching. West Coast guys who kicked butt and had fun on a small dime.
RIP Tom
PS: I'll add a little more. Tom felt if you could run nitro why not 100% even tho that definately not the normal racer mentality of the day. He found also there was no use for a bypass pill and ran everything thru smaller nozzles for better atomization. One more was not using an idler pulley, he set the distance by using gasket thickness. As you watch his videos you can hear how they ran the same block and crank for 100's of races and how he figured out not to hurt valves and springs...JD