Racers Road - Final Ride
by Eric Dee
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27.000 x 19.500 x 0.010 inches
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Title
Racers Road - Final Ride
Artist
Eric Dee
Medium
Drawing - Charcoal On Paper
Description
9 Year Old Boy eats the scab off his knee at dinner as dying Mother dreams
"Dream" she told him- "like you'll live forever"
" Live Like you'll Die today " - then cancer took his Sweet Mother away.
Route 166/33 was a known short-cut for all the sports car drivers going to Salinas. At approximately 5:15 p.m., Dean and Hickman left Blackwells Corner driving west on Route 466 toward Paso Robles, approximately sixty miles away. Dean accelerated in the Porsche and left the Ford station wagon far behind. Further along on Route 466, the Porsche crested Polonio Pass and headed down the long Antelope Grade, passing cars along the way toward the junction floor at Route 466 and 41. Dean spotted a black-and-white 1950 Ford Custom coupe, driving at a high rate of speed heading east on Rt. 466 toward the junction. The time was approximately 5:45 p.m., PST. Its driver, 23-year-old Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed, suddenly turned in front of the Porsche to take the left fork onto Route 41. Turnupseed then hesitated as he 'spiked' the brakes just as the Ford crossed over the center line. Dean saw an impending crash and apparently tried to 'power steer' the Spyder in a 'side stepping' racing maneuver, but there wasn't enough time or space as the two cars crashed almost head-on. The Spyder flipped up into the air and landed back on its wheels off in a gully, northwest of the junction. The sheer velocity of the impact sent the much-heavier Ford broad-sliding thirty-nine feet down Route 466 in the westbound lane.
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