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**Challenger345** · 12-24-2010, 10:57 AM

Honorary Membership for a lifetime of service to Mopars, engineering or related fields.

Thanks
steve

**Challenger345** · 12-24-2010, 11:24 AM

Cotton lives in Spartanburg, SC, I got to meet Cotton on Dec 30th at his shop and had a great time talking with him. Cotton is a Mopar Legend and we need to Honor him.

check out his web site: www.cottonowens.com

video

You Tube

www.semopar.com

Cotton Under My Hood

**Challenger345** · 12-24-2010, 11:32 AM

Buddy is a Mopar Legend an we will get to meet him April 9th 2011 at the Arrington event.

http://shophemi.com/t-buddy_arrington.aspx

Don't forget this event April 9th 2011
http://semopar.com/showthread.php?t=570

**Challenger345** · 12-24-2010, 12:05 PM

Neil "Soapy" Castles (born October 1, 1934 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is a retired NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series driver that participate from 1957 to 1976.

http://www.legendsofnascar.com/Neil_Castles.htm

**Challenger345** · 12-24-2010, 12:13 PM

http://www.legendsofnascar.com/Pete_Hamilton.htm

**Challenger345** · 12-26-2010, 11:19 AM

Don Carlton
Born: August 4, 1940
Died: July 5, 1977
Age: 36

Don Maynard Carlton was killed at Milan Dragway, Michigan durning a Chrysler Corporation test on July 5, 1977

1977 Dodge Colt
Chrysler rented the Milan race track for testing. Carlton lost control of the car at the end of his run and the car flipped several times. He was transported to the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor where he died. He lived in North Carolina. His wife and son witnessed the accident.

Don Carlton won the '76 NHRA Nationals at Indianapolis in this Dodge Colt. This is the car he would be killed in the following summer

http://dragstripdeaths.webs.com/

**Challenger345** · 12-26-2010, 11:31 AM

Rick Metts Age: 27
Born December 31, 1948
Died: March 4, 1976

Richard Ernest Metts

Testing at DeSoto Memorial Speedway, Bradenton, Florida
Pro Stock Plymouth Duster

He was instantly killed while testing his pro stock car. He lost control of the vehicle and smashed into a guard rail. He was traveling about 100 MPH when the car began fishtailing. It sped across the adjacent lane, slammed into the guard rail, then bounced up and cut a utility pole in half. When it came back down the car burst into flames. When Metts was thrown from the vehicle, his body was engulfed in flames. Track personnel tried to extinguish the fire, but were driven back by the intense heat. He lived in Salem, Ohio.

http://dragstripdeaths.webs.com/

**Challenger345** · 12-26-2010, 12:35 PM

Garlits statistics

• 17 World Championship Titles and 144 National event wins
• Voted #1 Drag Racer for the past 50 years by the NHRA in 2001
• Won the prestigious U.S. Nationals eight times
• Car Craft Magazine Top Fuel Driver of the Year: 1969-70, 1972-73, 1975-78 & 1986
• Car Craft Magazine "Man of the Year": 1969, 1971-73
• American Hot Rod Association "Fuel Driver of the Year": 1971-74

http://www.garlits.com/

Don't forget this event Sept 4th 2011
http://semopar.com/showthread.php?t=328

**Challenger345** · 12-26-2010, 12:48 PM

Richard Petty is the "Real Thing". Hardly any word or phrase can even begin to describe Richard Petty's grip on what creates an American legend. Fans call him, "The King", and rightly so, because that really just about says it all, along with his 200 career wins.

http://pettys-garage.com/

**Challenger345** · 12-26-2010, 04:25 PM

In 1968 Mr. Norm developed the first 440 Dart GSS that became the prototype for the factory M Code 440 Dart GTS.

http://www.mrnorms.com/info/bio.html

http://www.prostockhemi.com/