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buggy fabrication department (not meet him, tell him that I’m a drag for a few years, and then offered
to mention the rising cost of fuel racer and got the feeling that he it to George. George bought the
car racing) it was time. really wasn’t very impressed. Then TAZII and asked me to be the
one day my next door neighbor crew chief. We took the car to my
But that’s not the end of the story. told me that her soccer coach used
Like I said, I was and still am an to be a drag racer and she would shop and made a few changes and
altered guy to the core. In 1964 in like him to see my car. Since I’m upgrades, and then sent George’s
admiration of the Tasmanian Devil, in the speed business building son Scott to Frank Hawley’s Drag
I built and raced an alcohol fueled performance motors and modifying Racing school. We made some ???
Oldsmobile powered altered and race cars, I agreed. One day in mile test passes in the low 5’s last
painted it white just like theirs. I walks George Snizek. We become season.
still drive an injected alcohol Chevy
powered white altered to this day. friends. I love the guy, and what I look at this old man now as
history he has, what stories he has! he’s standing behind the TazII,
But here is the best part of the I convinced him to get back into again outfitted in a white Pacers
story: Unknowingly, I moved to drag racing by joining me and my team uniform, and on my hand
the same town that George Snizek crew chief as we compete in the signals, he’s backing his son into
lived in. He stopped racing, I never North East Timing Organization the tracks left from the burnout.
met him or Charlie and the Pacers with my altered, Plain Vanilla. It
name faded away over time. That turns out that in 2007 there was But in my mind or maybe in my
is until 2006! I was in a physical a tribute Tasmanian Devil being heart, I’m Charlie Dodge, and that’s
therapy rehab office. When I signed constructed in Arizona by an old George Snizek scooched down
in I noticed the name above mine friend of the Pacers named Jerry behind the wheel in 1965 at some
is....George Snizek! I walked over to Joaquin. Jerry raced the TAZII old drag strip in the North East.

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