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101 Things That Are More Deserving of the Seat At Williams Than Lance $troll

DISCLAIMER: I don’t hate him like this anymore, i’m posting this purely for comedic purposes and i hope all the stroll fans can have a good hearty laugh over this too because i have no beef with any of y’all. you can tell how dated this list is by many of the things on it lmfao also you could substitute basically anything in that title and it’d have the same effect. thank u & enjoy

the lizard galavanting across the track in singapore

bernie ecclestone himself

niki lauda, at his current state

max verstappen’s sister

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tom cruise

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ALF

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my 65 year old neighbor who is currently having a sneezing fit in his backyard

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dorkus, the youtube channel that made the thomas the tank remix of we will rock you

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air bud

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Justin Bieber’s “One Time”

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the ikea monkey

siri

Jared Leto’s severed arm in requiem for a dream

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betty white

jack white

the woman from this youtube video

the kid in class who always reminds the teacher that we had homework

sonic the hedgehog

sonic the fast food chain

gogurt

the anesthesiologist who tried diagnosing hillary clinton with parkinson’s

bobbi babalooney

the guy who made “what does the fox say”

norman pagenaud

the onion

the mom from that “WHO want lasagna” vine

the leftover food you keep forgetting to throw out and at this point it’s just becoming part of the family

2007 Britney Spears

the guy who armpit farted along to Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night” in its entirety

Lady Elaine Fairchilde

a carton of tiger tail ice cream

max chilton’s impression of derek zoolander

a furby

the whale from free willy

jimmy fallon

Marcus’s fucked up left leg

the kid banging the oven door while his dad plays the trombone

angela from appleton wisconsin who just wants the 3 wick candles in iced gingerbread and winter candy apple from bath & body works

nigel thornberry

puppymonkeybaby

Amy‘s small toe, which is shorter than the other small toe

buffalo bill from silence of the lambs

the american F1 commentators 

John Mulaney’s friend John who decided to play Tom Jones’ “what’s new pussycat” 21 times in a row in a diner 

wilson the volleyball from castaway

hello kitty

Nico’s sweaty eye

The One That Got Away from the 1982 boycott sleepover

nick offerman’s mustache

that person who always gives out raisins for halloween

pineapple on pizza

Jamie’s left butt cheek 

The Shirt™

Niki’s novomatic cap

Dany’s questionable post-race footware

spit

whoever wrote that huffington post article about how Tim Kaine used to be hot even though he looked like Ted Bundy

the dancing marshals in Hungary

esteban’s runaway tyre in Malaysia

Felipinho Massa

the smutty Bernie Ecclestone/Vladimir Putin fanfic

the feathers that keep coming out of my pillow

David Coulthard’s jaw

the suicidal canadian seagulls 

the skeleton that my 10th grade biology class broke by bending its hand back into its pelvis

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Pure Heaven: The Life and Fast Times of Fuel Altered Pioneer Leon Fitzgerald

Heaven.

Leon Fitzgerald was born in 1933, midway through the Great Depression, in Altus, Oklahoma. When he was 8, his family migrated to Southern California as they searched for a better life. His parents, Roy and Vera Fitzgerald, stayed with friends in Bakersfield and San Diego prior to settling in north Long Beach. There they rented a crowded garage apartment and took jobs working at nearby Douglas Aircraft to make ends meet.

As WWII wound down, the Fitzgeralds had saved enough money to buy a new home in Lynwood, California. “I attended Lynwood High and finished my last two years up at Compton College, which is where I got my diploma,” Leon remembers. “By that time, I had become totally engrossed in cars, so I decided not to pursue my education any further. A friend of mine named Stan Betel got me a job at P&S Foundry, which primarily poured small aluminum parts for the aircraft industry. It was quite an education for me.”

But foundry work was a hot and dirty business, and Fitzgerald wanted something better. By that time his father, Roy, had also made a career change and was working as a milkman for South Gate’s Royal Farms Dairy. He got his son a job working in the bottling and capping department, and when the timing was right, Leon shifted gears and started driving a milk truck. Though his first car was a ’40 Chevy coupe, by this time Leon’s daily driver was a ’49 Ford club coupe that he lowered, decked, and equipped with Appleton spotlights.

Life was good. That is, until the Korean War came along, and with it the draft. Private Leon Fitzgerald was assigned to an M48 tank battalion and sent to Frankfurt, Germany.

“Up until the time I got there, I had no idea what an M48 tank was. The Army taught me how to drive one, shoot one, tear down the 90mm main gun and 50mm side guns, and all that stuff. I spent two years doing that.”

Had to Have It

One day, Leon walked into a car dealership in Frankfurt and spotted a brand-new, red, ’52 MG TF sitting on the showroom floor. He just had to have it.

“I asked the salesman how much it cost, and he said, ‘$1,500 U.S.’ I called home and asked my mother to send me the money I had saved from selling my ’49 Ford and bought it. There was a kid from Kentucky in my company named Virgil Jones, and he I became pretty good friends. Since we both happened to have a lot of furlough time on our hands, we decided to see Europe. At the time, you could buy gas for about 15 cents a gallon, and you could fill the entire tank for about $2.50. We had a mechanic in town build us a rack on the back that would hold two foot lockers and a G.I. can, and we drove all over Europe, twice! We went skiing in the Swiss Alps. We went to Italy and saw Pompeii and Venice. We visited the Vatican. We went to Paris and visited the Louvre. We even visited the French Rivera.”

Leon was discharged from the Army in late 1954, and Uncle Sam shipped his prized MG back home for free. As it turned out, his sister Paula was looking for something sporty to drive, and her brother sold the car to her for exactly what he paid for it. Leon put the money down on a two-tone ’55 Mercury Montclair, and friend Dick Jackson (who had worked for a time at Sam and George Barris’ Lynwood shop) cut a couple of coils out of the springs, shaved and decked it, installed fender skirts, added a pair of Appletons, and just generally transformed it into a nice, SoCal-style custom. Nice enough, in fact, to attract a young female equestrian named Darlene Therrian, who worked at the Los Angeles River Riding Stable. The couple were married in 1956 and rented a small duplex in Huntington Park.

“Since I was in the Teamsters, they held my job for me at the dairy. Eventually, Darlene and I moved to Fullerton and rented a small apartment prior to our buying our first home. We met up with a bunch of people who were into drag racing. I had bought a brand-new ’56 Ford F-100 big-window pickup with a six-cylinder in it. A friend of Dick Jackson’s who did engine swaps found me a brand-new Oldsmobile V8, so we yanked out the six-cylinder and dropped in the Olds. Man, that thing could smoke the tires for a half a block. That was the beginning of my hot rodding days.”

Leon began street racing the F-100, which he later admitted wasn’t the smartest thing to do. “By then, Darlene was pregnant, and here I get this speeding ticket racing some guy down Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach.”

Darlene was even less amused after Leon nearly burned down the garage after installing a Weiand U-Fab log manifold with six Stromberg 97 carburetors that backfired and burned up the entire front end of the truck.

“The truck sat in the backyard for the longest time. I eventually ended up selling it as is. Somewhere along the line, the Oldsmobile engine also got sold. In the meantime, I’m driving a ’39 Chevy business coupe. With kids arriving, we put them in the trunk—it had no back seat—and drove that thing all over the place.”

Going Legit

Fitzgerald’s “legit” drag racing career began when he and Glenn McMullok built up another ’39 Chevy coupe and raced it with Rocket 88 power at the very first Smokers Car Club–hosted Fuel & Gas Championships in 1959 at Bakersfield.

“The first thing we did was break an axle, so we had to go and find one at a local wrecking yard in order to be able to run on Sunday. We raced that car up to the time I opened my first speed shop [Fitzgerald Racing Equipment], which was located on the front part of the lot where Jess Tyree had his header business in Fullerton. At the time, my brother-in-law, Norm Taylor, worked for Bell Auto Parts and was really helpful in my buying the right parts, which included Cragar wheels, Howard cams, and other stuff.”

In the early 1960s, Leon bought Glenn Ward’s dragster and formed a partnership with another milk man named Ted McMullen. The two installed a Potvin-supercharged Oldsmobile engine and went racing. Unfortunately, the car was crashed by friend Jack Eskelson during a licensing run, and that was the end of Leon’s dragster racing days.

“That’s when I ended up putting the Fiat together. Jack and I rented a building over by the Fullerton Airport and built the altered there. Actually, it was pretty much an antique by contemporary standards. It didn’t use round tubing for the main rails, only for the rollcage.” Fitzgerald ran that car for about a year, with a best pass of 9.55/154.90, and then sold it.

“There was a kid who was going to Fullerton Junior College named Richard Rockman who was putting together a blown-fuel small-block Chevy. He and I had been talking about putting the engine in the Fiat, but he got drafted and went to Vietnam in 1965. By the time he got out, I had already opened up Anaheim Speed Engineers. Jack and I were in the process of building Pure Heaven, which was a ’32 Bantam roadster. Rich had a friend who was in the catering truck business named R.T. Reed, and the three of us teamed up.”

From a booking perspective, Reed, Rockman & Fitzgerald’s Pure Heaven (best of 168.53 mph) became Southern California’s answer to Rich Guasco’s Northern California-based altered ego, Pure Hell. Then in 1966, Reed and Fitzgerald built Pure Heaven II, which was considered state of the art with its colorful red, white, and blue motif, and Moon Racing Cam–equipped, fuel-burning 427 Chevrolet rat motor.

“That car really put us on the map,” Leon said. “We won a bunch of fuel altered shows at Lions, Irwindale, and OCIR, and ran 7.60s at 200-plus mph.”

The Tour

Then along came 1968’s AA/Fuel Altered Tour.

“In mid-1968, we were contacted by Ira Litchey and Ben Crist from the Gold Agency in Chicago. The first Fuel Altered Tour consisted of Marcellus & Borsch in the Winged Express, Henry Harrison driving Nolan Pritchard’s Beaver Hunter, Leroy Chadderton with the Magnificent 7, and myself. I remember that I built an enclosed trailer here at the shop, and we used R.T.’s 392 Chrysler-powered ’60 Chevy station wagon as a tow vehicle. We ran from 15 to 20 dates that first year all over the U.S. and Canada.”

Although the tour had been a resounding success, it had been costly in other respects.

“When I went out on tour in 1968, Glenn had stayed behind to run the shop. It was really hard because neither of us was making very much money at the time, and we had growing families to support. When I came back, Glenn, who was building engines for the Campos Brothers Lo Blow II, had found a job elsewhere. We closed up the shop, and I went to work at Chrysler’s New Car Prep Department in Santa Fe Springs.”

For the new job Leon joined the UAW, which came with benefits. One was that he was allowed to take leaves of absence.

“Every summer I would take a leave and go on tour back east. However, after the second year, R.T. decided that he couldn’t keep doing this and had to go back to work. Now, the engine and trailer were mine, but the car belonged to him. I tried to work out a deal with him, but he didn’t seem interested. I ended up buying Lee LeBaron’s Between Heaven & Hell AA/FA and re-christened it Pure Heaven III. That was a first-class, pro-built car, but Lee could never get it to go straight. Turns out the rear end was three quarters of an inch out of square. Jack and I fixed it just in time for me to go out on tour.”

Pure Heaven III turned out to be a real runner. In 1971, the car won class at both the NHRA Winternationals and U.S. Nationals and was the top finisher on the AA/FA tour. Pure Heaven III ran a career best of 7.11/205. Then suddenly, Leon retired.

“I kind of felt that by the time you reached age 40 you were supposed to quit,” he reasoned. “I had a growing family and a good job with seniority working at Chrysler, so it seemed like a good time to hang up the old driving gloves. After that, Alan Miller drove for a couple of years. Then I sold the car but kept the drivetrain. Art McLaren had a brand-new altered, so we put my drivetrain in his altered and christened the car Pure Heaven IV. Art drove, and we ran that car from 1975 to 1979.”

For the next 20 years, Leon stayed busy with other projects, like building a highly lucrative sand rail component business known as Billet Pro. And, yes, there was a sand rail named Pure Heaven.

In the late 1990s, Leon was enticed back into the sport after the restoration of Pure Heaven II by Bob Nylander. On the home front, Leon’s daughter Cindy had married fuel altered racer Jeff Bennett. Then Jeff’s son Chris built the Pure Heaven Camaro Nostalgia Funny Car, which also ran an altered body. In 2013, Leon and Jack Eskelson built the current Pure Heaven V, which both Chris and Jeff co-drive. Current time on the new car has been 6.50/220.

Once an altered racer, always an altered racer!

Leon Fitzgerald and Pure Heaven II. The rat-motored altered was considered ahead of its time and was a hard charger.

Leon’s first “altered” was this M48 tank, which he trained in while stationed outside of Frankfurt, Germany.

While stationed in Germany, Fitzgerald bought this MG TF, which he and friend Virgil Jones drove all over Europe. Note the fully loaded luggage rack on the back.

After being discharged from the Army, Leon bought a brand-new ’55 Mercury Montclair, which he and lifelong friend Dick Jackson lowered, decked, shaved, and generally transformed into a state-of-the-art mid-’50s mild custom.

Fitzgerald’s next ride was this ’56 Ford-F-100 six-cylinder big-window. The truck didn’t stay stock for very long. With less than 1,000 miles on the odometer, he swapped the six for an Oldsmobile Rocket 88.

We do not have any pictures of Leon’s earliest race cars (the Oldsmobile-powered ’39 Chevy gasser and dragster), but the car that put him on the map was this Fitzgerald-Eskelson-built, all-steel, ’48 Fiat Topolino altered, which started life with an injected Chevy that was eventually supercharged. Best time on the Fiat was a 9.55/154.90.

The Reed, Rockman & Fitzgerald Pure Heaven was another Jack Eskelson creation. These two shots from Lions clearly show the car in a state of transition. Note the changing headers, front wheels, and radiator shell. Pure Heaven was the first car to fly the Anaheim Speed Engineers colors and ran in the high 7s at 168 mph.

Anaheim Speed Engineers was located on Manchester Boulevard. Opened in 1965, the company remained in business for five years and boasted the cars of Reed, Rockman & Fitzgerald, the Campos Brothers Lo Blow II, and Frank “Hawk” Harris’ gas dragster as “works cars.”

Opening day for Orange County Raceway, August 5, 1967: Leon carries the front wheels in Pure Heaven II on the newly minted track surface.

Leon boils the hides at the 1968 HOT ROD Magazine Championship Drags at Riverside International Raceway. Note the substitution of a dropped front axle, necessitated after Richard Rockman crashed the altered during a licensing run at OCIR. Also note the team’s 392 Hemi wagon tow vehicle in the background.

Here is a copy of the original press kit photo printed in 1968 by author McClurg while working as a sports photographer at the Anaheim Bulletin newspaper. These handouts were sent to Chicago’s Gold Agency for distribution to racetracks all over the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard, including Canada. Leon later commented, “We ran between 15 and 20 dates that first year.”

The concept of heaven versus hell has been debated by philosophers for eons. But the real-life heaven versus hell battle was waged at dragstrips all up and down the West Coast every time the team of Reed, Rockman & Fitzgerald raced Rich “Pure Hell” Guasco and driver Dale Emery in fuel altered eliminator competition.

In an attempt to test the Funny Car waters, Leon and R.T. swapped their nitro Chevy into the chassis of Lee Jones’ ’68 Pontiac Firebird Funny Car and ran some winter tests at OCIR. But claustrophobia set in once the body was lowered, and Leon said, “Pass!”

The pro-built Pure Heaven III AA/FA made its debut in 1969. This shot was taken while winning class at the 1971 NHRA Winternationals. That same year, Leon would also win Indy with PH III. Best time for the altered was 7.11/205.

Check out Leon’s Abe Lincoln impression while on tour, summer 1971.

Leon, Darlene, and the family pose with partner Art McLaren and Pure Heaven IV during driver introductions at the 1978 Fuel Altered Nationals, Tucson Dragway, Tucson, Arizona.

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