Photo ID # | J12.08.13_024_HAR_FLM_0070D_1 |
Car #: | #24 |
Driver (s) : | Mark Hartman |
Location: | Flemington Speedway |
Date: | 1975 or 76? |
Photographer: | Wayne Bechtel |
Photo provided by: | Frank Miller |
Comments: |
Comment: For those new to The Vault, and who are maybe not
familiar with the term "Double Pick Up", well now you know. Used for
when a car had both front and rearend damage, the method of removing cars
proved to be both effective and also somewhat dramatic as it offered
announcer Bill Singer to slowly, and dramatically, address us all with
something like the following: "Well, as you can see.... The
#24 sustained both front AND rear end damage... requiring a double
pickup..." And then... he'd be quiet so that you could hear the
buzz in the stands as the crumpled racer was carried in front of the
grandstands, on its way back to the pits where the crew would then have to
get creative to figure out how to get what was left of their racer back on
the trailer. I'm not sure if this is the specific accident or not, but I remember Newt Hartman telling me one time that Mark was driving the #24 and that Mark had brought the car into the pits saying that something was wrong with the steering. After looking the car over, and not being able to find anything, the team sent the #24 back out.... only to have something go wrong with the steering, causing a big crash. Not sure if this was that time or not, but the good news is that we are pretty sure Mark was ok, but the same could not be said for the #24 |
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