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RIP Ken Block

Started by 68krrrr, January 03, 2023, 03:25:00 AM

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68krrrr

I realize i'm a little younger than most guys around here but i assume most of you have heard of this guy ,he was a huge part of Ford Performance  motorsports team for years & founder Honnigans.Just a goat in the motorsports world for my generation,apparently he died in a snowmobile accident which was one of his other extreme sports.If you haven't already seen these videos ,do your self a favor & kick back in front of your big screen tv with the surround sound turned up & watch some of the greatest motorsports videos ever made IMO , with  some gear banging from a bad ass 65 mustang RIP
The Los Angeles one is my fav with all the LA landmarks ,but Pikes peak one is pretty sick also & London ,his videos fueled a generation of young motor sports enthusiasts,wether you like them or not.
https://youtu.be/5qanlirrRWs

https://youtu.be/Hg6L_7qLIEQ

https://youtu.be/PrqYohBV58o

Current
1967 GT500 #1724
Nightmist Blue /Parchment
2005 Ford Gt Midnight blue
Porsche 911 Turbo 2007 Highly modified
1934 Ford Chopped & channeled

Previously owned
1968 GT500KR #03528 Lime green
1968 GT/CS

"Fly low & avoid the radar"
Thanks Adam

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Bigfoot

RIP KIWI
RIP KIWI

Harris Speedster

His videos are some of the most bad A-- of blinding speed and driving known around the world.
I think he was a FORD guy at heart.
Any bets, if Carroll and Kens paths would have crossed back then in the 50's-60's, Block would have been driving and or building bad a-- cars for Shelby. YES ?

A family man that is now forever a shooting star in time.
One cool thing very few do, he brought younger sets into our game guys, !
RIP Ken.
Condolences to his family.
Respectfully,
John
Is this the first futuristic exotic in the world?
Size of an ac cobra, but built in 1935 !
https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/features-stories-and-photos/harris-fwd-speedster-the-story/?PHPSESSID=v4pqtv6hep4ff4rvalrc9qsnj7

557

RIP.Glad he went doing something he loved.Brought a ton of entertainment to the world.Life well lived.

Side-Oilers

Current:
2006 FGT, Tungsten. Whipple, HRE 20s, Ohlin coil-overs. Top Speed Certified 210.7 mph.

Kirkham Cobra 427.  482-inch aluminum side-oiler. Tremec 5-spd.

Previous:
1968 GT500KR #2575 (1982-2022)
1970 Ranchero GT 429
1969 LTD Country Squire 429
1963 T-Bird Sport Roadster
1957 T-Bird E-model

daltondavid

major loss for millions of his fans. and I am one of them!
Founding father of SAACFORUM.COM

QuickSilverShelby

Shit! This really sucks. Another one of my hero's gone. It's tough, as we all get older and the people we admire pass on. Damn this hurts! Ken was the same age as my wife and a bit older than me but I looked up to him and was a big admirer of his.

I was so excited to see his Hoonigan car at SEMA in Vegas only two short months ago this past November. Rest in peace and race in peace. Will miss you, will miss your videos and will miss your legend. RIP brother.

QSS
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

tesgt350

#8
I met and talked with him at the Mustang 45th Anniversary Event at the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham Alabama. Very nice guy.  He will be missed for sure.

shelbymann1970

RIP Ken. Last week I was watching a video of him driving around a barge out in a bay at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn in front of his Ford that is on display there. Always a fan and introduced his videos to many of my friends/coworkers. He will be missed.
Shelby owner since 1984
SAAC member since 1990
1970 GT350 4 speed(owned since 1985).
  MCA gold 2003(not anymore)
1969 Mach1 428SCJ 4 speed R-code (owned since 2013)
"2nd" owner of 68 GT500 #1626

TA Coupe

The barge was in San Francisco Bay.

       Roy
If it starts it's streetable.
Overkill is just enough.

Rodster-500

So sad.... when you think of all the risks he took drifting his cars.   RIP Ken

Side-Oilers

He was definitely the King of Sideways!    Would've been cool to see him do some of that in a (replica) Cobra 427. 
Current:
2006 FGT, Tungsten. Whipple, HRE 20s, Ohlin coil-overs. Top Speed Certified 210.7 mph.

Kirkham Cobra 427.  482-inch aluminum side-oiler. Tremec 5-spd.

Previous:
1968 GT500KR #2575 (1982-2022)
1970 Ranchero GT 429
1969 LTD Country Squire 429
1963 T-Bird Sport Roadster
1957 T-Bird E-model

QuickSilverShelby

#13
Here's a great clip about some of the history of Ken. It's really worth taking a few minutes to watch it.......... just because.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHTNJguVlMA

QSS
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.