| | The pace lap in 1981 at Pocono. This began 5 years of big speed. |
| | | 1981 and Jim Bickel practices through Poconos T1 |
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| | '83 starting grid for the GATR race at Pocono Raceway's 2.5 mile track |
| | | 1984-Lady and Gentlemen! Start your Diesels!! Baker's on the pole. |
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| | Pocono starts were impressive |
| | | The purse at Pocono in 1983 was $82,000, Baker was the winner |
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| | Jimmy Padgett's Gold Duster. Notice the yarn used to test aerodynamics at Po... |
| | | Buddy Albertson's Sunoco sponsored Peterbilt at Pocono, in the 'stock' div... |
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| | Doyle Montgomery (white hat) and the Flying Deuce crew, winners in '81 |
| | | Montgomery's Flying Deuce in Pocono's garages, the trucks didn't fit inside |
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| | If you leave your fuel cap off fuel gets all over your rear tires and.... |
| | | Charlie Baker in 1985 at near 150 mph on Pocono's front straight |
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| | Jack Shreffler blowed a tar. Right fronts were the GATR's achilles heel |
| | | Bob Bolus pulls in with a frayed right front |
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| | Legendary Ervin Carpenter's GMC in Pocono's turn 3. |
| | | EJ Utley's Mack hauling down Pocono's front straightaway, doing over 150 mph |
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| | Utley on the fuel in Pocono's turn 3 |
| | | Mike Adams leads Baker and Burton down the Long Pond Straight |
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| | In 1981 Bob Bolus pulls into the pits with his Brockway |
| | | Bolus spikes the brakes in T1 coming up on a slower Bulldog |
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| | Pennsylvania's Bob Bolus entered a beautiful GMC General.... |
| | | Which he made a mess of when the turbo blew and fill the cab with smoke |
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| | Robert Pfeffer's bright red Kenworth at Pocono. His exhaust was huge |
| | | Building speed at the start of the main straightaway at Pocono |
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| | The Corbett battles a Ford at Pocono |
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| | Charlie Baker was the winningest driver in the history of the short lived series |
| | | The beautiful HM Kelly #39 Kenworth driven by Baker |
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| | The black Corbett leads Shawna Robinson's Ford through Pocono's T3 |
| | | Shawna Robinson started in GATR in '84 and went to Winston Cup in time |
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| | Dick Murtaugh's White battles Shawna Robinson's GMC in 1985 |
| | | #33 Dick Murtaugh (white t shirt) and crew |
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| | Move the engine back and lower, remove the fan for a start..... |
| | | Murtaugh shows real race trucks have doors, thin doors but doors |
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| | The #43 Reed truck and #40 Schreffler truck in 1982 |
| | | White flag 1984, it ended Luther Burton #40, #2 then #71, margin .4 seconds |
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| | 1982-Randy Johnson's Corbett out of North Carolina |
| | | Richard Craig's Ford was one of a two truck Indiana team. |
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| | Richard Craig prepares to take his Ford on the track |
| | | Here's the second beautiful S&S Salvage Ford, later driven by Robinson |
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| | The '85 Pocono winner Charlie Baker, the qualifying record racer at 132.6 at... |
| | | 1985 third place went to EJ Utley |
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| | 1982 and Junior Reed moves down the long front straight |
| | | David St Clair met Pocono's T1 wall in 1981 |
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| | In the 1981 Pocono race Mike Adam's Junkyard Dog rolled inside T1 |
| | | Mike returned with a GMC for future Pocono races |
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| | The 1982 turn 2 crash scene of Murtaugh's White |
| | | The result of Charlie Baker's last lap crash in 1982 |
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| | In 1983 Virgil Taylor's truck went home looking a lot like this |
| | | In 1984 Virgil's Peterbilt went home like this |
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| | 1983-The pace lap on Dover's 23 degree banks under threatening skies |
| | | A large Dover Downs crowd watches the pace lap |
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| | The winner of the largest wing award goes to this Ford, in heavy Diesel exhaust |
| | | And here's the wing on Bob Lashley's Ford |
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| | Dick Murtaugh puts the Diamond Reo through it's paces |
| | | The leaders battle on the banks |
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| | Charlie Baker and Mike Adams side by side |
| | | In diesel racing black smoke is good, white smoke is as bad as it gets |
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| | Doyle Mongomery's truck looking high wide and handsome |
| | | Doyle Montgomery showing some driver lean on the banks |
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| | Eventual winner Montgomery following Charlie Baker |
| | | Randy Johnson's Corbett paces traffic at Dover |
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| | Ken Farmer displays understeer, or pushing on Dover's 23 degree banks |
| | | A blown tar by Robert Pfeffer |
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| | The front axles were cut, wedged and bolted together to keep tires from blowing |
| | | Flemington NJ speedway played host to GATR in July of 1987 |
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| | The four wide start at the New Jersey dirt palace, Robinson won eventually |
| | | Eventual winner Shawna Robinson leads two other KWs |
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| | A more orderly restart, note the trucks had removed a rear axle |
| | | Jimmy Padget introduced Gold Duster to the turn 4 wall |
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| | Dick Murtaugh and EJ Utley move in on a Bulldog Mack |
| | | Baker #93 pacing Utley into turn 2...rain moved in soon afterward |
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| | Bob Motz in 1980, the original Jet Truck drag racer,not a GATR truck, nor diesel |
| | | The next wild jet truck was Les Shockley's 3 engine Shockwave |
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| | Tyrone Malone's Bandag Bandit, Tyrone passed in 1997 in a highway accident |
| | | Malone's 144 mph V-12 Super Boss in Perkasie PA in 1982 |
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| | PreGATR Charlie Baker's HM Kelly KW Diesel Drag racing in New Jersey |
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