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Eldon Palmer is a car dealer in Indiana. He drove the Dodge Challenger to promote that car in the Indy 500 1971. Palmer set up a traffic cone on the pit lane.
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1971 Dodge Challenger Pace Car. Sold for $25,300 at 2009 Vintage Motor Cars of Meadow Brook. A local Dodge dealer named Eldon Palmer was chosen to drive the Indy Pace Car on race day for 1971. Unfortunately, Palmer entered the history books for causing the only pace car-related accident in Indy 500 history.
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Eldon Palmer, an Indianapolis-area car dealer and businessman who crashed the pace car into the photographers stand at the start of the 1971 Indianapolis 500, has died in Indianapolis after a sudden illness. He was 87.
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Patriot MotorSports 463 subscribers 64K views 10 years ago Now that the Indy 500 is in the books, another moment of racing history has almost been forgotten. Back in 1971, a Dodge Challenger used.
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It came down to local dealers to provide the cars and the honor was given to Eldon Palmer, the owner of Palmer Dodge in Indianapolis. By "winning" the right to supply the cars he was also allowed to drive the car on the pace lap of the race. Muscle cars were never known as good stoppers, and this video is proof as to why.
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To be clear, Eldon Palmer didn't intend to put his own life - along with those of Glenn, Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony Hulman, and ABC correspondent Chris Schenkel - in harm's way.
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RIP Eldon Palmer, Indy Pace Car Crasher | The Drive News → Culture → People RIP Eldon Palmer, Indy Pace Car Crasher Car dealer drove his Dodge Challenger into a stand full of photographers..
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Eldon Palmer, a middle‐aged, short man in bright sports clothes, was the driver of the pace car. He is a leading Dodge dealer in the state. Dodge won the annual bidding for the pub.
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The pace car was an orange Dodge Challenger convertible driven by one Eldon Palmer, an Indianapolis car dealer. Since no Detroit automaker had offered a car to pace the big race this year, what with the recession and all, Indy's wise men accepted Palmer's offer of a couple dozen cars, contingent on his request to drive the celebrity machine.
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A local Dodge dealer named Eldon Palmer was chosen to drive the Indy Pace Car on race day for 1971. Unfortunately, Palmer entered the history books for causi.
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That year, Eldon Palmer -- an Indianapolis Chrysler dealer -- crashed a Dodge Challenger pace car into a photographers' stand at the end of pit row after hitting pit lane at an estimated.
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Above: 1971 Indianapolis 500 polesitter Peter Revson's McLaren M16. Eldon Palmer, an Indianapolis-area car dealer and businessman who crashed the pace car into the photographers stand at the start of the 1971 Indianapolis 500, has died in Indianapolis after a sudden illness. He was 87. Palmer paced the Indy 500 field in the orange 1971 Dodge Challenger, with Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner.
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The brakes of the Challenger, driven by a local Dodge dealer named Eldon Palmer, locked up. Palmer, who splits his time these days between Florida and Indianapolis, says the Indy 500 starter.
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Driving the pace car that day was local Dodge dealer Eldon Palmer, who fielded the car himself that year (Chrysler, along with Ford and GM, sensed the impending end of the muscle car era and chose not to supply an official pace car in 1971. Palmer got together with other local Dodge dealers to round up 50 Challengers for the Indy 500).