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Photo GDR-00429

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Owner

  Joe Katz (Terminal Transport)

Make

  1957 Chevy

Class

  Street Eliminator - Modified

Driver

  Hubert Platt

Track

  Camp Wheeler Drag Strip (Macon, GA)

Event

 

Photographer

  From the Charles Wilkins Collection

Year

  1961

Comment

 

Hubert Platt's famous '57 Chevy. His relationship with Terminal Transport was the "beginning of the end" for the small time operator/drag racer. With corporate advertising budget/money he could afford several cars brought them to track using a big car hauler. I recall he broke a transmission in early trial runs, went back to trailer, got a new one out of wooden crate, installed it, and was ready to run in time for elimination's.

Most of the other guys would have had to tow their broken racer home and save money for several months to replace the transmission. Deep pockets makes a big difference.

I'd guess the year was 1961- photo taken in the "pit area" at Camp Wheeler drag strip near Macon Georgia. The good spots in pit area had a tree. -- Charles Wilkins

 

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