Dave Crane's Vintage Dragster at the Museum of American Speed

[@ontarget4076]

History saved! Thank You!

[@stanlucas665]

This is an absolutely amazing historical story. Thank you for sharing.

[@HARLEY05FLHT]

I was a friend of Dave's. He worked for the post office in Battle Creek and was a big Car Nut when I met him. I met him right after he was racing a nostalgic midget racer that ran on alcohol and crashed it and it caught fire and burnt his lungs ... he said yea could not see the flames and I breathed them in! The one reason I hooked up with him is that he would port and polish heads and he did a set of 289 heads for me. When I took them to Ray Baker (Baker Engineering of Spring Lake MI) to do a 3 angle valve job and guides he was really impressed by Dave's work! He ported a lot of head for the guys in the Battle Creek area and he would stamp a serial number on them and right next to it he stamped (No Flo) so if you ever see any heads floating around that have No Flo on them they was ported by Dave! Dave was a big Chrysler fan and he bought a house on Goguac St in Battle Creek and the next time I seen him he said guess what my house number is? I said 426 ... he said no that is couple houses down from me ... he said I live at 440 proud as a Peacock! One heck of a nice guy and friends with everyone!

[@michaelcouey1383]

I was best friends with his son Bill in high school. When he told me his dad moved, and the house number was 440, I wondered if it was coincidence. Dave said "hell no, do you know how long I had to look to find just the right house number?" I have many memories of him and his collection. I specifically remember him having one of Garlits' rails in his garage on Burnham st. And I actually got to drive his road runner a time or two (though he probably didn't know it - his son was driving it and let me take the wheel for a bit) :)