Tv tommy ivo biography engine dragster roller

Touring the US 14 Mile at a Time. Ivos Fast Leaving the Fast Lane Behind. A Life WellLived. What are your earliest recollections of drag racing? I lived in southern California, which is where drag racing started, so when I was 16 I did what you did at that age, and I bought a car. My girlfriend lived across the street so we pedalled our bikes uptown and collected brochures from all the dealers.

We then spread them out on the ground and I thought the Buick looked the best. Thanks to my movie money, I had the only new car in school. But that was the car that got me started building race cars and why I picked such an odd engine to go racing with. You were actually born in Denver, Colorado. How did you find yourself in southern California?

I could sing like a year-old when I was three and I had all this curly blonde hair; people would tell my mother she should take me to Hollywood and get me in the movies. Well, at the time, we were dead poor and my mother had arthritis so bad she was all but in a wheelchair. One winter we decided to travel to California to see if the better weather would help my mum and to see if we could get little Tommy in the movies.

They both worked. Did you find it tough to catch a break initally, when you arrived in California? But I guess I had a little acting ability because after I stumbled my way into my first movie I went on to make about others and a couple of hundred TV shows over 19 years. Having become a Hollywood success at such an early age what made you choose drag racing over acting?

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InI bought my second new car, a V8 Buick Century. Denver, ColoradoUnited States. Acting [ edit ]. Racing [ edit ]. Awards [ edit ].

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References [ edit ]. Retrieved Sources [ edit ]. External links [ edit ]. During an exhibition stop at a primitive strip in Concord, North Carolina, TV Tommy ran it down an embankment when the parachute failed. His crewman, Don Prudhomme, now our esteemed columnist at Hemmings Muscle Machinestowed the twice-engine car out with a Cadillac.

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