Saturday, November 14, 2009

Re: [StockSSDragRacing] Joe Allread

 

Terrible news - Wade you are absolutely right about Joe - great guy. I seem to recall at Indy they had lost in the Hemi Shootout and Joe set up a makeshift bench, had his die grinder out and was grinding on the carb spacers or intake - don't see that much these days.
I hate to be the bearer of more bad news but I saw over on Moparts a post about Dean Nicopolis from Gary Jacob:
Dean was diagnosed with cancer about three years ago and seems to be back. He is in the hospital and has not been eating for 2 weeks.Looks like he is loosing the battle.Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family. Jake
Dell and I have had the pleasure of talking to Dean a number of times when he was still racing and building engines for Eddie Smith. dean is another great guy.
Unfortunately, it seems like we are losing alot of the older racers these days.
Mark J


--- On Sat, 11/14/09, Wade Owens <wadeowens2007@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Wade Owens <wadeowens2007@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [StockSSDragRacing] Joe Allread
To: StockSSDragRacing@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 8:58 AM



Dell, this is very sad. I remember when we talked with him several years ago at Indy. He was very nice and answered my dumb Hemi questions. When I asked him how many man hours it takes to build one from scratch, he said, "I dont know, I'm still not done with this one!", talking about the one in Defranks car. Very humble man who let his engines speak for him.
 
Wade

--- On Fri, 11/13/09, dillwyn_jones <jammer_jones@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: dillwyn_jones <jammer_jones@hotmail.com>
Subject: [StockSSDragRacing] Joe Allread
To: StockSSDragRacing@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 7:31 PM

 
Received word that Joe Allread passed away. Engine builder for many years. Jr. Stocks and Hemis, He most recently built the Hemis for Jim DeFrank's Hemi car. Great Guy.----Very Sad, Dell





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