thebajarunner - 3-9-2004 at 05:20 PM
Just returned from the weekend of Las Vegas NASCAR. I spent the weekend with my old racing partner, Jack McCoy, the winningest all time Winston West
driver. I asked Jack if he remembered a SoCal guy named Means.... and the stories began to flow.
Seems like Rod was, according to Jack, the first guy on the Coast to start messing with mixing up gas for better race results. Eventually Trick
Racing Gas was formed. Jack was one of the major distributors for the "Means created" go-fast gas.
Jack and Rod put on a race car swap meet at the Turlock Fairgrounds, which turned out to be a real success.
Rod owned race cars that were campaigned by a lot of pretty famous names in the stock car memory book.
All in all it was fun to validate some of the stuff that I had heard via Doug.
Jack is clearly one of the most respected racers ever in the West and he validated Rod Means as another first class stock car legend.
Nice going Doug, always nice to know our parents turned out o.k.
Baja Arriba!!
David K - 3-10-2004 at 08:28 AM
Last Summer, when I was 'lost mission hunting' at Rancho La Bocana, there was a Jeep truck there, with a big TRICK Racing Fuel sticker on it! I told
Doug about it when we got back... I will try and post the photo I took of it, later...
[Edited on 3-10-2004 by David K]
David K - 3-10-2004 at 11:56 AM
Found It! This was at Rancho La Bocana (misnamed San Pedro in Almanac), just inside the canyon from the old L.A. Bay to San Francisquito road that
Gardner and friends opened in 1966.