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Anyone remember the FORD DRAG TEAM days? When Dick brannon,DADDY WARBUCKS Phil Bonner,Ed Martin and Bob Glidden in the 60s and then late 60s early 70s in Pro Stock with the GEORGIA SHAKER Hubert Platt and Ed Terry with Dick Loehr and Al BATCAR Joniec? Do you have any memories of the Ford Supercar Clinics they used to have? Do you have any class pics post em up! Thanks
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I remember it well since I was honored to have traveled with Hubert for a couple of months after Indy 1969 and was there for the Super Stock photo shoot.

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I helped unload the parts display boards and rolled them into the dealerships. I remember Randy Payne saying if they had a traction problem with the Torino he would just slide the seat back.

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Up until last year I had an original Drag Team brochure that came with a patch and a membership card. It opened up and had pics of the rigs and a membership application. I had that and some other lightweight and Ford performance catalogs for over thirty years. Someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse and I let them go.:o Yep, I'm a knucklehead!

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There was an excellent book released recently. Full of rare pictures.

I actually have it but haven't read it yet.

http://www.amazon.com/Ford-Drag-Team.../dp/0983060673


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i purchase this book from charlie morris at carlisle ford and also with some autograph of charlie ,ed terry and hubert platt ,great book !


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Wasn't Bunny Burkett "Cotton Pony' part of the East Coast Team...

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east coast blue team with white stripes = hubert platt , mustang and randy payne , torino

west coast white team with blue stripes = ed terry , mustang and dick wood , torino


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-IPz_TWEgk"]Ford's Drag Team 69 Mustangs 428SCJ & 427SOHC - YouTube[/ame]

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east coast blue team = hubert platt / mustang
randy payne / torino

west coast white team = ed terry / mustang
dick wood / torino

east coast team hubert platt and randy payne at napierville dragway québec , black 69 mustang sud automobile / george constantine
black 69 shelby / alban gauthier

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSll3jpK8v8"]Constantine - YouTube[/ame]

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I remember this very well. We had a chapter at Rice & Holman Ford and my father was vice president of the club back then. We had Hubert and Randy at the dealership along with Al Joniec for one of the performance clinics. The next day we had a match race at Atco Dragway with both Platt & Payne cars taking on Norm Fryer's 2 cars. I still have a box of stuff from those days for setting up the clinic at the track. Registration forms for running a bracket race and several other forms and paperwork. I also have several of the decals and monthly newsletters. But the best prize from all of it is that I still have my father's Ford Drag Team jacket !

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hi,Dave do you have a picture of your jacket ,i have a patch but i need only a jacket to reproduce a clone ,thanks

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What was traveling with Hubert like? Could you tell us some of what happened on that trip? thanks and I have that book by Morris too Does anyone know about Dicks Torino above? Could anyone recall the big S/S and Pro Stock meets back then?

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I am also a big fan the old drag clinics and Hubert Platt,great pic's!

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Lets see....Glidden,Turnage,Lanius,Lonie Gardner,and...?

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I have a few stories I could tell about Hubert but I can't share them on a forum!!

Most of the time Hubert or Randy did not travel in the truck.

I first met Randy when I was on my way to Dallas for the Springnationals in 1969 towing my F/S 1969 Cobra. Randy was driving the big rig and passed us than pulled over he thought I was someone he knew that raced a Cyclone. He said if I needed anything to look him up. I broke a Detroit Locker and talked to Randy and he gave me one and that was the only thing I ever got from Ford. I went to Indy with a friend of mine and started talking to Randy and Hubert in tech and wound up traveling with them for a couple of months. I was not on the payroll but Hubert paid my expenses.

One funny thing happened at Indy I was with Randy and he said he knew a back way to the motel and we were going down this country road and he turned the key off and back on and the truck would back fire and the cows would take off running he thought that was so funny. He did it one too many times and blew the muffler off and now the next day the Ford Drag Team had to drive in to the pits at the US Nationals with no muffler and Hubert was not happy. We left Indy on our way to Detroit and Hubert was driving and stopping at every Ford dealer we went by looking for a muffler we did not find one until we got to Ford in Detroit.

We were in Dallas and Hubert had his 1969 B/A SOHC Mustang there and he asked me to take it alone back to his house in Atlanta. I got to his house early in the morning the next day and his wife cooked me breakfast. I stayed at his house a few times even had Sunday dinner with Hubert his family and brother Huston. Hubert also had me drive the F350 with the match race Mustang to Epping New Hampshire by myself. I will never forget those days.

On one of the trips with Hubert driving he told me about his 1968 Mustang that he had let Patti Young use after she had wrecked hers that he was selling for $3500.00. I called home talked to my Dad but we could not afford it than talked to my Grandfather and he said no but than my Uncle loaned us the money and the rest is history.

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This 68?

http://www.428cobrajet.org/sites/def.../984-Platt.jpg

or this one?

http://www.428cobrajet.org/sites/def.../985-Platt.jpg

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I don't see any photos

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They show up on my computer.

Strange.............

One is a Tasca, one is Paul Harvey.

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the first time I looked they did not show up but the second time they did.
Roland

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and now.......nothing.

Again,strange.
Never had that happen. :confused:

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Try again with different pics.
This one:

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or this one?

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At so many levels, wouldn't it be great to have this again?

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985 was the Super Stocker that I bought in November 1969.



I found out at the Old Drag Racer Reunion in Panama City around 2005 that Hubert wrecked the car and Randy had it repaired and raced it a short time.

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A few other used it before I bought it.


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This how it looked when I got it


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Before Pomona 1970

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My slicks were worn out and Hubert let me try his.

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Later we went to Holman Moody Stroppe with Hubert and mounted the slicks on my rims. Hubert pointed at a guy and said don't let him see you doing this and we were having a hard time mounted the slicks and that guy came over and mounted them for us!!

He went out to eat with Hubert and Connie Kalitta sat across the table from me and told this story. He had one Cessna airplane and would take off put it on auto pilot and than take a nap and was having a hard time getting people to fly with him!!

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thanx for this. Luv those SCJ's etc. Keep em coming

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That is one nice 68 Cobra jet Rusty and love that classic red and white paint scheme!

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This ones for Rose Racing. Huberts Pinto. I have Gliddens,Dyno's,Don Grotheer and Gapp @Roush too. All pit shots at Indy.

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Thanks for the Georgia Shaker Pinto Tommy! I have seen a few very wild pics of Hubert dry hopping it to the line with the door open(his trademark) Boy I wish PS guys would do that today! I would give it a try if I had a clutch in mine :)

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Watched Ranry pull the shaft out of stearing column, well not out but apart, on a burn out at York SS meet on Saturday morning. Did not do any damage to anything as not going very fast. But did loose stearing, and did not race that day. He was a big guy, guess he would hold on to the wheel on those burn outs.

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Of all the wheels the Drag Team had on their cars I think the chrome reverse with the Cragar center caps look the best. [Jacks photo].