Fred....thanks for the reply!! Tom Jacobson's favorite camshaft was the 990B. He introduced me to John Erson, Sig's son, in the mid 80's. John still had his dad's masters so he reground me some 990B's. Don't know if I have any left!! I know the 1000B was NOT streetable!!!! The headers Tom was selling was for Doug Thorley. I finally met Doug about 4 weeks ago. He still has original set he built for Tom's 62 Biscayne!! Tom's Biscayne, the one he bought from Butch Leal in 1963, is in the NHRA's Museum in Pomona.
Since you knew Tom, Linda passed away about a month ago...very short battle with cancer. Linda was only 63...much too young. She was a real LADY who loved drag racing. She was like a mother to ALOT of us!!
We'll have to get together sometime to talk about Hayden.
Linda gave me a picture that I have on my office wall......Hayden with his fire suit still half way on walking down the drag strip...Tom Jacobson on one side and Les Shockey on the other...Hayden had just won the East-West Funny Car meet at Lions Drag strip in 1965!! Les lives in SE Kansas now...not too far from KC, MO where I live. Drives the Jet Semis!!! Have never been down to meet him.
I have another question for the club members.....another Hayden autographed picture for the first posted correct answer:
Where did Lions Drag Strip get it's name??
Later.
Phil
Since you knew Tom, Linda passed away about a month ago...very short battle with cancer. Linda was only 63...much too young. She was a real LADY who loved drag racing. She was like a mother to ALOT of us!!
We'll have to get together sometime to talk about Hayden.
Linda gave me a picture that I have on my office wall......Hayden with his fire suit still half way on walking down the drag strip...Tom Jacobson on one side and Les Shockey on the other...Hayden had just won the East-West Funny Car meet at Lions Drag strip in 1965!! Les lives in SE Kansas now...not too far from KC, MO where I live. Drives the Jet Semis!!! Have never been down to meet him.
I have another question for the club members.....another Hayden autographed picture for the first posted correct answer:
Where did Lions Drag Strip get it's name??
Later.
Phil