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    Olds Icon Joe Mondello passes

     



    Just read this, met Joe once at Rockford Ill. drags in the 70's very nice guy.
    RIP Joe.

    http://forums.streetrodderweb.com/70...4-6/index.html
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    Some really great recent pictures with Joe and family at some events were posted on the H.A.M.B. today,stop by and check it out.

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    Another Icon of rodding gone. Hot Rod Heaven sure must be filling up fast with all the guys we grew up reading about and knowing. The hobby is aging.

    RIP, Joe.

    Don

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    RIP Joe, sure could make them Oldsmobiles fly, hope he didn't take all the cylinder head secrets with him!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Itoldyouso View Post
    Another Icon of rodding gone. Hot Rod Heaven sure must be filling up fast with all the guys we grew up reading about and knowing. The hobby is aging.

    RIP, Joe.

    Don
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Severson View Post
    Hey, life's a b----, nobody's lived through it yet!!!!
    Ya but the S.O.B-es seem to Live the Longer Lifes ? He was one of the Few Real Good Head Porters Left
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    Joe used to sponsor me back in the 70's when I was into drag boat racing
    Man, did he have sum tricks for them Olds motors, sure got the Big Block
    Chevy boys attention, when that 472 Olds would blow by em in the lights!!!
    God Speed Joe.
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    THEE olds man. R.I.P

    was one helluva pioneering force in hotrodding/racing.

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    RIP Joe

    He made a short appearance in last weekend's episode about head porting on HorsepowerTV.

    Mike

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