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Misc Forums => Health, Welfare, and Passings => Topic started by: dw230 on October 30, 2015, 01:28:19 PM

Title: Joe Mabee
Post by: dw230 on October 30, 2015, 01:28:19 PM

The recent passing of Jack Harvey had a friend of mine tell me that Joe Mabee, Bonneville 200 MPH Club 1953, has recently passed on. Does anyone have conformation?

Thanks,
DW

Title: Re: Joe Mabee
Post by: saltracer1 on October 31, 2015, 09:15:07 AM

I found this............

http://www.mrt.com/news/obituaries/article_3544509c-6bce-11e5-a8b7-73c9879c45f2.html

from the article

Mabee was an aviation enthusiast since his youth. He enriched his flair for airplanes, especially World War II vintage aircraft, and for race cars, especially his father’s Guy Mabee Drilling Co. Special, an open-cockpit streamliner. Mabee, then 22, set a world record with the streamliner of 203.105 miles per hour at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1953.

RIP

Title: Re: Joe Mabee
Post by: Stainless1 on October 31, 2015, 10:10:12 AM

GodSpeed Joe...
Another pioneer is gone, one of the original members of the 2 Club. He lived a full, interesting and rewarding life.

Title: Re: Joe Mabee
Post by: SPARKY on October 31, 2015, 10:47:46 AM

What a Life    of " Long Course laps "  That guy got "STUFF"  done!  What a Legacy!!

Title: Re: Joe Mabee
Post by: dw230 on October 31, 2015, 01:02:27 PM

Thanks Phil, confirms my message.

DW

Title: Re: Joe Mabee
Post by: jimmy six on November 01, 2015, 08:56:42 PM

I made some duplicate timing tags for his old car a few years back and am sorry to hear of
Joes passing.... Like above, another LSR pioneer is gone. RIP.