Prayers for Kip Martin

[Dave Turner]

Originally Posted by Travis Miller

Back in the 70's I teched Kip's Galaxie the first time he raced it at Indy. He won SS/OA class so he got his invitation to teardown. Back then teardown was at Paul Harvey Ford. Dave Danish told me to go over Kip's car from bumper to bumper. Seems that a lot of people were complaining that a big 352 Galaxie should not run like that.

Kip's Galaxie made it through teardown with no problem. At the end of the day Kip shook my hand and thanked me for being so thorough. I thanked him for building a car that followed the rules. Over the years Kip would sometimes call me and ask a question as to whether something he wanted to try was legal or not. I always enjoyed talking to Kip and am glad I had the privilege of knowing him. He was always a gentleman.

RIP my friend.

Thank-you so much for those words Travis....your testimony to his character goes a long way towards familiarity for those of us who were unfortunate not to have met his acquaintance.

[mopacltd]

That's the Kip Martin I knew. RIP, Buddy.

[richie 2]

deeply saddened. I called him one nite from Canada regarding a '64 289 cyl head issue. problem solved. always have followed his racing via DRC/national dragster & will always regret not being able to get to the west coast to see him run. there are class champions...kip is a true champion with class.

[chris ok]

R I P. I never knew the gentlemen but from what I just read in these pages he was some great man. He passed on my little brothers birthday who we lost 4 years ago June.
What a great video Ford Racing had on Kip.
stock 64 block, stock 289 crank, 9500 rpm launches to heaven. wow.
Chris.

[gsa612]

If memory serves me I believe Kip ran one of the Patterson SS Camaro's (IA?) in the early 80's,along with the many Fords.My condolences to his family,he will be missed. gsa612

[vholley]

Remember this?

[mtheulen]

Just a little update:
I just arrived home from helping Kip's daughters go thru things at the house.Wanted all of you to know, they have really enjoyed all the things everybody has wrote here on class racer.
As others have wrote on here, Kip was a classical pianist, total authority on figure and roller skating, and a certified pilot.Here in the last few years he had really took on bike riding and enjoyed timing how long it would take him to go X amount of miles (imagine that!)
Keep the stories rolling in guys, his daughters are having a ball reading them
Mike

[Don Kennedy]

Originally Posted by mtheulen

Just a little update:
I just arrived home from helping Kip's daughters go thru things at the house.Wanted all of you to know, they have really enjoyed all the things everybody has wrote here on class racer.
As others have wrote on here, Kip was a classical pianist, total authority on figure and roller skating, and a certified pilot.Here in the last few years he had really took on bike riding and enjoyed timing how long it would take him to go X amount of miles (imagine that!)
Keep the stories rolling in guys, his daughters are having a ball reading them
Mike

When I lived in new Mexico I use to meet Kip where ever we were going to race and always did a side tour sight seeing one time we met in Gallup New Mexico at the same cafe . One time we stopped to look at the huge Creator going to phoenix, also during that trip not only Kip was a Good skater ,liked Classical music, one night during this road trip we both went out with Randy at Lamb Components' and that night after a few strong beverages ,even though Kip hardly even indulged Randy, Kip and I because expert dancers at some fifties sixties place at least we thought were were lol at this , That night we even learned how to close the place down ,wow that was about 30 years ago or more

[Don Kennedy]

In The early 80's I had Kip Build me a 455 Super Duty Pontiac Motor for My Super Stocker and Marlan Davis from Hot Rod magazine did a article on the Dyno Session Kip did on My combination , Kip used to say many years after that article people from all over the world would always mention that article we use to laugh on how much fun we had when the article was being written

[SSDiv6]

Kip was also the Stepfather to Darin Morgan.
Darin has always given credit to Kip for his career as a racing cylinder porter and builder.