The Jalopy Journal
My dad, Larry Petit, passed away last night at 11:20 pm. He is finally reunited with my mom and all of his old racing buddies.
Been a while but I just got back on here. A thread on another site got me thinking about this. I see we lost a bunch of pics from pb. I’ll have to...
Haha , this is funny , my dad said Billy painted a red dot on his helmet because they called him "Red Light Petit "
It was , I was forced to sell it due to the business going south . It was from Colorado , super solid and all there .
Ya , who knows what happened to that helmet . I have some old nomex gloves and socks and shoes but that's it . Most of that stuff disappeared when...
Just stopping to introduce myself . I'm Eric , I have been tinkering with and building bad ass cars since I was a kid . It came naturally , got it...
Yea , he still remembers this .
This car has a Vespa body on it . They got in Kent at a gas station . It was burned up all but the body . They paid $100 bucks for it . He said...
I'll try to get more stories from him and post them up .
This is awesome . I gotta thank you Fallon . Larry is my dad . He was born in Ohio in 1934 . Graduated Mogadore High School in 1954 and was...
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