Remembering Buddy Ingersoll…

Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2012 by Roger

Buddy Ingersoll Passes – CompetitionPlus – March 11, 2012

Video – Ingersoll’s innovative twin-turbo Buick Regal in IHRA 1986: 

Buddy Ingersoll – The Day Modern Technology Scared Pro Stock – CompetitionPlus

Turbo pioneer, world champ Ingersoll dies – NHRA – March 13, 2012

The Buddy Turbo Story – 10-second Pinto – January 1979

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About Roger

Driver of our '57 Chev from 1972-2019, Vietnam veteran (A Troop, 3/17th Air Cavalry Scout helicopter Line Chief and later Cobra Periodic Inspection team leader), retired ASE rated automotive mechanic. Roger became involved in drag racing during his high school days and after his stint in the Army ran E & F/MP [Modified Production] here in Division 6 before switching to bracket racing when the '57 became obsolete for class racing. He often raced at Puyallup, Kent-Pacific Raceways, Bremerton, Portland & the original Mission, B.C. track.
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4 Responses to Remembering Buddy Ingersoll…

  1. Roger says:
    Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 11:51 am

    It is a sad commentary when I cannot find one article on Buddy Ingersoll on NHRA’s site. It is true that Ingersoll mainly ran IHRA events, but he was also very well known to all that were racing in that time period in NHRA.

    CompetitionPlus was one of the very few on-line publications that even noted his death. I guess if you ran a door car, you are not worthy…

    R.I.P Buddy!

    [On March 13th, NHRA did publish a story on Ingersoll. I’ve added a link to their ariticle in our post above]

  2. CHRIS YOUNG says:
    Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    NHRA will never have anything on him. They screwed him once he could run or out run the pro stocks of the day! Think about it 260 cubes and could run 7.20@193. Even today he could run in the top half of a top sportsman race and he was doing it in 1986! I know guy’s that would be happy to run this with 600+cubes in a state of the art Haas car today, way ahead of his time!!!!!! RIP Buddy!

  3. Bob Gilbert says:
    Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    Roger your so right ,this man meant the world to me, he did what no other man has done and still gets snubbed by N.H.R.A. It really goes to show what the people of N.H.R.A are really made of. For God’s sake his son Mark is Allen Johnson’s Crew Chief

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