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Dwight Southerland · 12-31-2012, 01:29 PM

Like Sammy, I have one of every tool Red made as far as I know. I also have one of the Camshaft duration-overlap checking tools and it is an inspired piece. I feel such a loss from his passing. Red and I used to have dinner together occaisionally when he would pass through Little Rock. The volume of stories that go with that man would fill a museum all by themselves. He was so key to making Stock Eliminator respectible in the early days. I first met him in 1967 at a seminar that he, Chuck and Dale Ham gave for a drag racing car club we started in Little Rock with the encouragement of Bob Ayres. I still have some old b&w pictures of a cylinder head display Red brought to demonstrate a legal valve job and the camshaft checking procedures. It's hard to believe these three are now gone. I still remember that funny voice of his when he would quietly say, "Dwight, you and I need to have a talk." I knew I was about to get a lesson, warning or scolding, or all three. But I also knew he was being a real Father figure in trying to keep me out of trouble. He was the authority as far as I was concerned.

12-31-2012, 01:29 PM	#6
Dwight Southerland VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Arkansas - In the middle of everything. Posts: 2,001 Likes: 64 Liked 780 Times in 194 Posts	Re: red anderson passes. Like Sammy, I have one of every tool Red made as far as I know. I also have one of the Camshaft duration-overlap checking tools and it is an inspired piece. I feel such a loss from his passing. Red and I used to have dinner together occaisionally when he would pass through Little Rock. The volume of stories that go with that man would fill a museum all by themselves. He was so key to making Stock Eliminator respectible in the early days. I first met him in 1967 at a seminar that he, Chuck and Dale Ham gave for a drag racing car club we started in Little Rock with the encouragement of Bob Ayres. I still have some old b&w pictures of a cylinder head display Red brought to demonstrate a legal valve job and the camshaft checking procedures. It's hard to believe these three are now gone. I still remember that funny voice of his when he would quietly say, "Dwight, you and I need to have a talk." I knew I was about to get a lesson, warning or scolding, or all three. But I also knew he was being a real Father figure in trying to keep me out of trouble. He was the authority as far as I was concerned.