red anderson passes.

[John Duzac]

I just heard the sad news about the death of Red Anderson. Everybody has to die, but no one should have to suffer. I sincerely hope Red did not suffer and passed in his sleep. Like everyone, I have my Red Anderson stories too. My 55 Chevy ran so poorly for a long time and then we went to Jim Walbel for help. Almost over night our car jumped up and started to run 3 tenths under the record. We went to a points meet in Bowling Green Ky and set a record in Q/S. A rules change the next year and we were running Super Stock T. We found much better heads we could run on the car and almost instantly put us running 12:50's. Red was waiting for us at a points meet at Laplace. Car was still on the truck and Red wanted to see the casting numbers on those heads! It was in black and white that we could run those heads. But no one could find those castings. You could not order them new. You just had to find them in a junk yard. They came on a 1959 Chevy 283. Boy, did they flow! We ended up setting the record that weekend and
Red Tossed me and my partner for the heads due to the valve job top angle. We went to the Gator Nationals the next week and qualified # 5. The car was checked out and the heads passed tech. Not another problem out of Red Anderson.

I long for those days, like many other racers on this site. I am very sorry to learn of the passing of Red, Dale and Chuck Nelson. Those guys are tops in my book and I hope to see them again one day. God Bless them!

Happy New Year everyone.