Color me gone funny car drivers#
He was considered one of Michigan’s top 10 oval-track drivers when he retired from the circle game in 1955 and later began putting his mechanical skills to work at Chrysler’s “transmission lab,” working on automatic transmissions for the company –- and his fellow employees.
“Other than family and close friends, you’re really the only person in the drag racing world that I’ve reached out to and I’m hoping you would do him proud.”Īs I mentioned already, Lindamood was a drag racing late bloomer after his oval-track efforts. “My dad didn’t want any kind of services, but I just didn’t want to let his passing go unnoticed,” he told me. Word was slow in getting out until I heard last week from his son, Randy. Truth be told, drag racing was almost an afterthought to Lindamood, who didn’t begin drag racing until he was 35, after racing on dirt and asphalt ovals, yet he turned his gift of mechanical prowess, self-promotion, and a gritty work ethic into a celebrated quarter-mile career. He made that kind of an impact in his 15-year career on the quarter-mile, from his breakthrough win in Top Stock at the 1964 Nationals through more than a decade of nitro Funny Car racing with a consistently tough race car. If you were a drag racing fan in the 1960s and 1970s, you knew the Color Me Gone name even if you couldn’t recall the name of its driver, Roger Lindamood.
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