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07-02-2005, 01:19 PM
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"....like awakening to find a mountain suddenly gone."
"....like awakening to find a mountain suddenly gone."
With these words forty one years ago, premier sportswriter Max Muhleman best described the feelings of a fourteen year old race fan who had lost his first hero. I was that fourteen year old and here is my tribute to that mountain, Fireball Roberts.  |
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07-02-2005, 09:50 PM
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Re: "....like awakening to find a mountain suddenly gone."
Nice car.
Was he the driver that died of kidney failure as a result of the fire in a car? I read Don Garlit's book 'King of the Dragsters' and he mentioned that before a NASCAR driver died from that, they never thought to look for kidney failure after severe burns (And he had just been burned in the book). |
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07-03-2005, 01:13 AM
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Re: "....like awakening to find a mountain suddenly gone."
No, Glenn was burned on about 75% of his body with most of it being third degree. His burns had started healing but his body had been so weakened by the ordeal he succumbed to infection over a month after his crash.
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