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What does this have to do with genealogy? Well, if you wanted to stretch it, I guess that anywhere you can find a name it may be of interest to you, even if it's some old 'hot rodders'. Boy, I wish there was a cumulative index to all the old hot rod and car rags. Even better would be a DVD or three with all the original issues, each page scanned, and of course, with a searchable index. Anyone out there know of one? I've wondered what happened to some of the great drag racers and hot rodders of Kentucky. Remember the Frakes n Funk dragster in the 60s and 70s? What about Joe Williamson, who won Modified Comp Eliminator in a wild 6-cyl powered T-bucket roadster like 6 times? (He was doing round-track racing at Louisville Motor Speedway, til it closed circa 2001). Today, in drag racing circles, a Kentuckian on top of his game is Lexington's Darrell Alderman, who drives Pro Stock on the NHRA circuit. He's part of a multi-million dollar operation and is in the professional ranks of the sport. Darrell won back-to-back world titles in the early 1990s, and after a brief hiatus, came back and is still a terror on the strip.
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Updated 25-Jan-2007.
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