Former Pro Stock racer Lee Hunter dies in air crash [FWD]

[Mike Schwartz]

NHRA News (http://www.goracing.com/nhra/wklynews/news3-20-98_4.html)

Former Pro Stock racer Lee Hunter dies in air crash
3-20-98

Lee Hunter, who gained national prominence in the 1970s with a
series of hard-running Ford Pro Stockers, was killed in a midair
collision between two planes over the Southern California community of
Corona.
Hunter was a passenger aboard a twin-engine Cessna 310 that
collided with a single-engine Cessna 152. The planes spiraled to the
ground about a mile apart, each hitting buildings on the ground and
setting those structures ablaze. No one was reported hurt on the
ground.
Hunter, who won the Division 7 Pro Stock championship in 1975 and
1976, loved to fly and owned a business that refurbished and sold
civilian and ex-military airplanes out of the Chino (Calif.) airport.
Hunter was a lifelong Ford proponent, from his first car, a 1960
Fairlane that he bought while a senior at Huntington Beach High School
in California, through a Mustang Super Stocker that he campaigned
before moving to Pro Stock in 1972.
Hunter first Pro Stocker was a Pinto, with which he eventually won
the 1975 title. He later moved to a Mustang II and then, in 1979, a
Mercury Zephyr, which he campaigned through 1981, before retiring and
taking up flying.
Funeral services are pending.

[Bill Pratt]

Hunter was one BAD dude. THE western Ford throughout the 70s...

RIP.

Bill Pratt

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