Rick Wolf passes away.

[Michael Beard]

Wow... so sad to hear this! Mr. Wolf was a jeweler by trade. When I was a young kid, and broke my glasses in gym class (more than once), he soldered the nose piece back on when no one else would touch the project. It wasn't until several years after that I found out he was a drag racer (let alone what drag racing was), and took note of his Class win Wallys proudly displayed in his store.

It's a tiny little world... Mr. Wolf claimed that the 'Cuda had 16 street-driven miles on it. He got it from BZ Motors in Lewisburg, PA (who was one of my first sponsors). He's the first guy who ever threatened to put me in a car (although we never actually did it). He introduced me to John Baughman at the Dutch one year as "This is the young man that's going to drive my car someday." Just standing around with that group was like hanging out with royalty, for a young kid.

Mr. Wolf took a protoge under his wing by the name of Ed Fetterolf, and taught him the jewelry trade. Ed went to high school with my brother. After college, I ran into him when I worked at my first sign shop: he rented the other half of the store. I later rented a room from him, then storage space for the Turismo --- in a bay behind Rick Wolf's store! Ed later got into drag racing and won a Motorcycle class championship at Beaver Springs just a few years ago.

Mr. Wolf had a body-in-white Eagle Talon. Never got to see it, and I don't think he ever did anything with it, but he talked about it often. The short wheelbase was a concern, but that would've made a neat ride!

While hunting for my first Stocker, I met an old Hemi driver that used to race with Mr. Wolf. He told me lots of stories from the wayback machine. He said Rick used to be quite a body builder -- could lift the front end of his Hemi off the ground, and at Numidia one time some girls were checking them out. Rick flexed his muscles and it started a rip in his shorts leg, or t-shirt ala the Incredible Hulk, and one of the girls fainted........ so the story was told!

Godspeed, Mr. Wolf. Tempus Fugit. You will be missed.

[alan r caraway]

Raced with Rick back in the 70s God Speed my Friend.
Tempus Fugit (Time Fly's).

[Rich Biebel]

Interesting Story Michael.....I do recall seeing Mr.Wolf and thinking he was in very good shape especially for his age and looked like he pumped iron...

Tempus Fugit means Time Flys and it was often used by the announcer as a trivia question when he came up to make a run.

Sorry to hear of his passing........None of us are getting any younger !

[Bob Bender]

WOW, what a great guy. So sorry to hear that. RIP RICK........

[Tom Goldman]

Very sorry to hear of Ricks passing
He's been a great guy to have known for many years.
We were actually hoping to see him at Numidia this weekend ,as he has come to our MASGA race several time to visit his friends,and have a few cold ones with us.

[Dave Ley]

A true gentleman in every sense. He would always go out of his way to come and talk with me. His cars were always first class and fast. The world will be a lesser place without Rick. RIP my friend.

Dave Ley

[tim worner]

Very sorry to hear this. Rick and I go back along way to the very first years of Beaver Springs Dragway. Beaver Bob even had us do some match racing. Will always have the memories of our races at The Beaver.

[Jim Wahl]

Rick was one of my Super Stock hero's back in the day. I remember when I asked about the car name he told me that the Tempus Fugit was Latin for "Time Flys" which was significant because he was a jeweler/ watch repairman. I always thought that was so cool. God speed Rick. Jim