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Originally Posted by pontiac jack
I believe that's quite a crass over-simplification. No argument about Mickey being a businessman; but that simple statement ignores the fact that he was the "ultimate hotrodder", an impressive innovator, and truly loved motorsports [example: a magazine photo from about 1961 shows a spectator (Mickey Thompson) ripping his T-shirt off and tossing it to a driver to use to dry his distributor cap after drowning the engine in an off-road event water crossing!]. Another thing you're ignoring (since you weren't into hotrodding back then, I assume?) is that no engine was more desirable than the Pontiac V8 in those years. Mickey used the potential of that great engine design to good advantage- by 1964 he held 146 national/international speed records (if I counted right), all but a couple of them with Pontiac power.
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Jack:
Crass or not, please don't shoot the messenger. I'm only telling you what Pulde told me. Of course, this may be Dale's take on things as he knew M/T in the late 60s, early 70s versus the time frame of which you speak.
And to be candid, I believe the term Dale used was "a money whore."
