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Another Legend Passed. Roger Lindamood - Gone but not Forgotten

I had a chance to meet him 2-3 years ago at Carlisle, I brought some photo's and a t-shirt he autographed the t shirt. When I get a chance to meet one the racers from back in the day I always do.
 
R.I.P. Roger. Thank you for all the great memories! I think I still have a model of one of your cars.
 
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RIP Mr. Lindamood
I watched all throughout my youth, but at the Chrysler Museum that car mesmerized me, my all time favorite.
I also got to shake his hand and get his autograph on a poster in Carlisle one year.
Thanks Roger
 
R.I.P. Roger....he was also instrumental in the development of Maverick's Little Red Wagon....a truck close to my own heart. :)

From Wikipedia...
The Dodge Little Red Wagon is an exhibition drag racing truck introduced in 1965. It was the first wheelstanding truck and was the world's fastest truck at that time.

Builders Jim Schaeffer and John Collier performed extensive modifications to the Dodge A100 in order to fit a 426 Hemi engine and TorqueFlite automatic transmission. Since the A100 was a cabover design, Schaeffer and Collier opted to install the drivetrain in the pickup bed, within a welded steel subframe.

Parts deemed unnecessary were removed from the body, among them the heater, dashboard, front bumper, and all body sealer. The Little Red Wagon's first dragstrip run netted a mid-11 second quarter mile at 120 mph (190 km/h).

The vehicle was not originally intended to perform wheelstands; the slight rearward weight bias caused the nose to lift in the air for nearly the entire quarter-mile run. The truck was initially given to Dick Branstner Enterprises and Roger Lindamood to help sort out the ill-handling and unpredictable truck. The team's Dodge Color Me Gone entry had just won the 1964 U.S. Nationals. They enlisted Jay Howell as driver; and the first known photo of it doing a wheelstand has Howell behind the wheel.[citation needed] Chrysler's Director of Marketing, Frank Wylie, arranged for Super Stock Champion Bill "Maverick" Golden to purchase the truck.

Golden turned the A100 pickup into the first exhibition wheelstander. The truck toured extensively throughout the United States and was used in television commercials for Dodge trucks. The Little Red Wagon debuted in the 1965 season opener at Lions Drag Strip in Wilmington, California, in front of 10,000 fans and reporters from major newspapers and automotive publications.
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The Giant Crestwood Dodge. That brings back memories for me growing up in SE MI also.
 
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