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• THE DAY FUNNY CAR’S DON GAY, JR. NEARLY DIED AT DENVER 30 YEARS AGO
• GAY PONTIAC
• THE "INFE GOAT" DON GAY'S 1966 CANDY RED "INFY" PONTIAC GTO
• DON & ROY GAY / GAY PONTIAC
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• DON GAY JR VS. ED MCCULLOCH
• DON AND ROY GAY PONTIAC FIREBIRD MATCH RACE CAR...

THE DAY FUNNY CAR’S DON GAY, JR. NEARLY DIED AT DENVER 30 YEARS AGO

Among those the p area was a young Don Gay, Jr., whose father, Don, Sr.

The send-generatn Gay had peted prevly Competn Elimator and Top Alhol Funny Car, where he’d won three tim before steppg up to the nro ranks 1989. The then-20-year-old Gay, Jr.

Wh mimal experience a vehicle of this liber unr his belt, Gay, Jr. The Safety Safari, unaware that Gay, Jr. In a still-ighteng scene all the years later, the fire bottl the nose of the chassis, which were never released by Gay, Jr., me unr creasg prsure om the heat of the fire and epted like a pair of bombs — thankfully dog so before the Safety Safari uld return to the scene.

GAY PONTIAC

In a heroic move, Pdhomme, still clad his fire su and helmet, climbed om his mache and dove to what remaed of the burng Pontiac, assistg the Safety Safari removg Gay, Jr. The footage ptured at the scene went far closer to the panmonium than what was shown on the Diamond P verage, pturg great tail the Safety Safari’s race agast time to brg Gay, Jr. Gay, Jr.

His brother, Shane Gay, later raced Super Comp and Top Alhol Dragster. ’s reer-endg accint, the Gay fay had teamed wh the Angel brothers to found the Hoton Raceway Park, another of the new super-tracks of the sport along wh the all-new Bandimere facily. The Gay fay remaed volved at the Hoton track until the early 2000s.

Don Gay, Jr. The day Don Gay, Jr.

THE "INFE GOAT" DON GAY'S 1966 CANDY RED "INFY" PONTIAC GTO

Of urse, we n all chuckle now at this pecially wh the stunng cince of the Gay Pontiac rryg a rabow pat scheme ten years before those lors would bee associated wh the LGBT Pri movement. However, should be known that both of the Gay brothers were acplished drag racers (hey, no more snickerg! The r alership still thriv as one of the Hoton area’s largt sellers but, wh the mise of Pontiac, is now Gay Buick GMC.

Makg A ConnectnHerb was about the same age as Don Gay of Dickson, Texas, and though the two had never met, the excement of watchg the early-’60s Pontiacs thump the petn appealed to both. He rellects, “I was asked to make a publicy stop at Gay Pontiac to display the r and meet the Gay fay. 30:1 gear Gay’s ’62 CatalaWh his son’s succs after Hayn’s tutelage, was only logil that Carl equip Don wh the most potent Pontiac the Divisn had produced to date.

Though petn was fierce, hot-shoe Gay mowed down the A/Stock nttants, takg the w the fal round over Ralph Swa’s ’62 Chevy wh an elapsed time of 12.

DON & ROY GAY / GAY PONTIAC

Visovatti raced the Catala s Gay livery that year before repatg a lighter sha of blue and namg “Ramaker” for the ’68 season. I didn’t know until after a b of rearch that was the same Catala origally mpaigned by Gay Pontiac.

I cid on givg a pata like that of a vtage racer, letter like Gay had, and then show and ocsnally race Nostalgia class, ” he says. The Gay fay gave me approval and Jim applied them perfectly. That clus the Gay fay and Jam Osteen, Arnie Bwick, Bill Blair, Warren Johnson, Hayn Profft, and Js asked what he bt lik about his Pontiac, Herb repli, “In my opn, ’s among the most regnized ’62 Super-Duty Catalas the world.

Don Gay won two major champnships wh , and beyond a repat and an enge-block swap, appears all origal and jt as was raced then. Roy and Don Gay were teenage brothers who ran at the lol drag strip Dickson Texas back the sixtys. Their father owned Gay Pontiac also loted Dickson Texas.

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The stars of the show jt about every Saturday night were Don Gay and his brother Roy. The mol I have built picts Don Gay's. For those who don't regnize the name Don Gay, may I.

Don Gay's parents owned Gay Pontiac, Dickson, TX, near Hoton. Pontiacs, of urse - om the Gay Pontiac alership. He would be the Gay racg fay's chief wrench for as long as.

Early on, young Don Gay showed the abily to drive hard. When the Funny Car ncept took off Gay Pontiac field. a Pontiac GTO, wh Don Gay drivg.

DON GAY JR VS. ED MCCULLOCH

Taylor traveled wh the Gay racg.

Gay Pontiac rs. By the late 60's the loyalist Gay racg fay (Don had a brother, Roy. Gay, who was also a drag racer) had to face the fact that Hemi eng.

By then he had a fay and a son, Don Gay, Jr.,.

DON AND ROY GAY PONTIAC FIREBIRD MATCH RACE CAR...

Gay n that '66 GTO agast Tom Sturm's "Jt 4 Chevy Lovers", unblown. Gay's blown Pontiac was way. rell that both Don Gay and Jam Osteen, who traveled wh the r most.

May God bls, and rt peace, Don Gay and Jam Osteen. Longtime drag racg fans know well the story of Meyer, how the Texas lad began racg nro Funny Cars as a teen and went on to bee a huge succs and today owns the fabled Texas Motorplex, but before we get to his story and the stori of the others the lumns ahead, let’s take a step back a earlier to another Texas teenage terror, Don Gay, who wowed fans Funny Car and, cintally, also beme a racetrack owner. He passed away June 30, 2007, at age 60, but his legacy liv ’s parents, Carl and Marie, owned the succsful Gay Pontiac alership Dickson, Texas, on the Gulf Highway halfway between Galvton and Hoton.

As Detro began focg on high-performance rs, the Gays echoed their support by purchasg nearby Freeway Drag Strip, which they rechristened Hoton Drag Raceway (and later beme known as Hoton Int’l Speedway, then Hoton Int’l Raceway; check out a tribute to the track here) Don had been a fe athlete junr high, playg both baseball and basketball, but his terts changed the day that his father booked Hayn Profft and his Mickey Thompson-owned, 421-powered alumum Pontiac Catala factory experimental at the Hoton track 1961. (Above) The Gay Pontiac fleet nsisted first of a tr of rs, an A/Stock Pontiac Catala sedan, an A/Modified Productn Catala statn wagon, and a B/Stock GTO. (Below) Don Gay won A/S class honors Indy Dickson High School stunt stunned everyone by wng A/S class Indy 1964, back when wng class was as big as (and, for some people, bigger than) wng the natnal event might well have stayed the Stock ranks had his father not changed his life aga by bookg Pontiac powerhoe Arnie Bwick and his blown GTO to the track 1964.

” (Gay later admted that his first choice for the r’s name was Satan’s Chart.

A lot of those same veterans would n at the Hoton track, wh full hospaly om the Gay fay.

"For the 1966 season, the Gays ntracted famed chassis builr and racer Jay Howell to provi a new full tube-chassis r wh a fiberglass body (aga a GTO), and Roy got the hand-me-down origal r. Bee NHRA did not yet regnize Funny Car as an official tegory, Gay and other early Funny Car mpaigners had to pete Competn elimator’s Fuel Dragster class at natnal events, but that wasn’t their ma foc – playg to tens of thoands of fans at wild match rac across the untry was. (Above) Although the Gays ran their Infy GTOs at NHRA natnal events -- petg Comp's Fuel Dragster class before the advent of Funny Car -- the real money was match racg (below).

Gay's duels wh the Mr. (Above) Infy 4 was this sleek GTO, near lane, driven this Amarillo Dragway match by Roy Gay agast Nelson Carter's Super Chief Charger, wh Bryan Teal at the wheel. (Below) The fal Gay Funny Car was Infy V, a Pontiac Firebird, 1967, Don began to share drivg duti wh Roy, who sred an imprsive nner-up fish behd “Fast Eddie” Schartman at the 1967 Manufacturers Champnships at Orange County Int’l Raceway.