Best Al Davis picture I have ever seen............
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Master Oil Racing Team
This is one I've been after for a long while. I wasn't sure I would ever get it. When Al Davis showed up at the Lone Star Boat Racing Association at the Baytown Boat Club in 2006, I did not have a picture for him to sign. I had a lot of the locals, but he was in the Dallas area. I guess with all the hype I should have come prepared, but I didn't expect Tommy Posey from that same area to show up either. Nor Jim Slack from Lufkin.
Then when Joe Flow had Jim and Sean McKean, Denny Henderson, Jim's pit man Billy, and the ever elusive Dick Frye show up at Corsicana to test the "Hot Foot", I wasn't expecting to see Al there. He is a quiet reserved type of guy, but steadfast to the end. At DePue, I was finally able to get his autograph on a photo I took of him in his hydro at Firebird Lake near Phoenix in 1976. Imagine having to travel all the way to DePue to get the autograph. Well...anyway I finally got it, and here it is. Thanks Al.
...........and I can't remember who took it now. May have been you Wayne, or it could have been Denny Henderson. The pic features Al standing by the corner of a trailer, if I remember correctly, gazing out into space, possibly at action on the race course, and with his hand near his face. The interesting part of the photo has to do with what he was doing with his hand, or more specifically one of his fingers.
Anybody have that picture still around?? I would love to see it again, although Al possibly would want it to go away forever, and maybe it has if he had anything to do with it.
Maybe it will surface again, possibly here on BRF??