edirt Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 dqd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txtom Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 That torn up winged modified looks like one of the cars Bo Rawdon used to build. Bo had that unique cantilever rear suspension, that laid the shock down parallel with the ground. Nice guy, James was, knew his son Monte also when I hung around Cowtown in the 80's/early 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettracecars(grc) Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Has James passed on? Watched him here in waco for years an all over Tex. at the big money shows. Never got to run with him, we were in lower class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
97car Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 I think he is still kicking, I think I have seen his name in a results column a couple of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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garrettracecars(grc) Posted August 10, 2008 Report Share Posted August 10, 2008 james showed up here at h.o.t. one night in late 70`s with a wing so tall they had to see if it wood go under the back streach waring lights. cleared by about 6 inches. then every body started to puying on tall wings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racevw112 Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 I was there the night at Cowtown when he crashed the wing modified. Saw it from the pit bleachers and thinking WOW!!!! that was a hard hit. James is still around, his wife passed away a year or so ago. His grandson is racing with the SST. Jason Howell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaproll Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 I was in the pit bleachers that night too! A friend and I were actually going down the bleachers when he come flying off turn 1 and into the wall. Scared the crap outta us! If I remember correctly,Pack was in the stands at Cowtown last year when a big dirt clod come up and hit him.ouch.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racevw112 Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 If I remember right, something came through the front window area, from anothter car and knocked him out and he hit the wall wide opened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarchuck Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 So glad that I stumbled accross this forum! I was at Cowtown every Sat night from 1980 till about 1994 or so. If I remember right, a brake caliper came off of the car that was in front of James and hit his helmet right at the opening for his face shield. When this happened it knocked him out and I guess that he had his foot ddown hard on the gas resulting in hitting the wall and demolishing the car. Was just an all around freak accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarchuck Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 Question about the big James Pack crash. Did he hit a tree during that crash? I dont remember him doing so, but in a BBQ forum that I frequent one of the guys mentioned a crash with the same circumstances as Packs, but said that car hit a tree after hitting the wall. Now how is that for a runon sentence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzu-Fast Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 I don't remember there being a tree anywhere near the track at Cowtown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarchuck Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Like I said, it's been awhile since I was there, but there used to be some trees up top of 1&2. I dont remember the car going that far up though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racevw112 Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 No tree involved with this crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybarrfan4life Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 My parents and my very young daughter (only 3 or 4 yrs old) were there the night Pack tore up his car. He went straight for the fence right in front of them (they were sitting on the 2nd row from the bottom). My dad, who knows Pack very well, went down to make sure he was okay and my daughter had a cow. She still remembers that wreck and she is an adult now. WOW!!! Needless to say, after that night, my daughter went back very few times (only wanted to go to see Danny Barr race), and she never sat that low on the bleachers again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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