hot rod world looses shirl greer

one of the pioneers of drag racing died shirl greer who was the 1974 funny car champ died fri he will be missed . shirl never got the reconition he deserved he lived only a few miles from bristol but when they had the so called blast from the past shows they never invited him even tho he had a nostliga funny car the got shirley and don garlits i never felt this was right you can read more here http://www.go2geiger.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2080:shirl-greer-past-f

 

check out these cool photos of shirl
http://gdrn.blogspot.com/2008/08/shirl-greer-and-his-1974-nhra-funny-car.html

 

Bummer ... met him when I was a kid in NJ