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« on: August 05, 2011, 11:57:40 AM »
This makes me very sad and a cheezy emoticon won't cut it.

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=45559
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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2011, 12:00:56 PM »
Oh.

He was a class act, both as a man and as a racer.

This is sad news, indeed.

crap.
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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2011, 12:14:33 PM »
Passing of a Legend. Godspeed #9
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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2011, 01:07:40 PM »
Wow...that's a punch in the gut.

In my mind, Erv Kanemoto wuz always "Gary Nixon's mechanic" and not that other guy who came later.
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« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2011, 01:13:41 PM »
Guess I didn't realize he was that old.  Saw Everett Brashear and Joe Leonard at the Sacto Mile.  Gonna have to rethink that age thing.
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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2011, 03:16:59 PM »
none more cool than Nixon.

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« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2011, 04:04:37 PM »
Awww, that just sucks.


Well Gary, you got that final podium. Ride on.
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« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2011, 04:59:26 PM »
Well, crap.   Sad  

I didn't realize that he was 70 years old.  I always think of him as young.  Seventy is pretty young to pass away these days.
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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2011, 06:05:49 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2011, 06:25:31 PM »


He and Dan Gurney. If you wanted an American icon you couldn't do much better.

Gary was well into his sixties and racing in the BMW Celebrity Cup series.



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« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2011, 08:54:43 PM »
after years of trying to get my knee out like my idol King Kenny, I grew to admire Nixon's tucked in road racing style.
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