Ronnie Sox

I went to the track a lot starting in 69, saw Sox & Martin race several times at a couple different places.

Back then you could walk right up to the cars in the pit area, look at stuff, talk to the people, pretty cool. Was even able to do that at NHRA national up until the early 80s.

Back in 70 or 71 I went to the Oswego Ill. dragstrip on a Sunday to see Sox & Martin match race Dyno Don Nickelson. Unfortuneatly, S&M could not run their car because of damage that happened while racing somewhere else on Sat. night. Ronnie had got the front of the car WAY up in the air when coming off the line and came down hard, bent up the front suspension, seriously smashed up the headers and oil pan. Even though they couldn't race they showed up anyway, hung out and talked to people.

They had Don Grotheer fill in for S&M so there would still be a race with Dyno Don.