The same Bobby Johns? Ex-Indy Car pilot?
Ray
At 07:19 PM 12/12/2003 -0500, John Beckett wrote:
>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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