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Title: Hubert Platt
Post by: BruceS on October 01, 2015, 09:33:01 AM

A Ford drag racing legend has passed:

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/09/30/match-race-legend-hubert-platt-dies-at-83/?refer=news

For many more images, Google "Hubert Platt"

I saw him match-race the altered Mustang at Lions in Long Beach back in the day.  The crowd went wild! 

Bruce

Title: Re: Hubert Platt
Post by: fairlanegt427 on October 02, 2015, 08:53:13 AM

I read this link last nite and am bummed out.  Mr platt sure seemed like a class act, and a racing legend. (I never met him)  I seen that he showed up to the most recent fe drag  race at beaver springs just this past april.  for those of you guys that met him at that event could we here comments on mr platt.

Title: Re: Hubert Platt
Post by: 57 lima bean on October 02, 2015, 08:58:21 AM

The three wise men......Dick B,Phil B. and Hubert

Title: Re: Hubert Platt
Post by: jayb on October 02, 2015, 09:57:09 AM

Wish I had a picture of my 66 Cyclone from the early 1980s, which featured headers that came forward and dumped in front of the front wheels.  My pal JC called them the "Hubert Platt Exhaust System", because Hubert did the same thing on at least one of his cars.  Think of the thousands of Ford enthusiasts, just like me, who emulated what Hubert did.  He left quite a legacy and we will miss him; RIP Hubert.

Title: Re: Hubert Platt at Lions
Post by: 69Chop1 on October 02, 2015, 05:01:33 PM

I also was at Lions Drag Strip in the 60s for that match race, Hubert and Phil Bonner put on a show that I will never forget. Good memories of good men.

Title: Re: Hubert Platt
Post by: barrys65cyclone on October 02, 2015, 08:21:27 PM

I met Hubert this past June a Ford Carlisle we spoke in length about his career sad to see another drag racing legend has left us.