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05-05-2012, 07:29 PM
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E.J. Potter
Lost another one. The older guys will remember. Ron...
http://www.dailytribune.com/article/20120503/NEWS03/120509832/michigan-madman-e-j-potter-dies-at-71-(with-video) 
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05-06-2012, 01:42 AM
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Re: E.J. Potter
Sad to here RIP..My dad took me to see him at Atco when i was a kid .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUu9P3CKSMI
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05-06-2012, 12:34 PM
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Re: E.J. Potter
I've read about Potter before as the guy who built the electric drag car that was like a slot car w/ supply feed cables he'd lay down on the track also a jet bike and other cool ideas!
Note the pictured bike has a Whizzer gastank! RIP [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img] ~ Pete
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05-06-2012, 03:08 PM
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Re: E.J. Potter
----I watched E.J. run at New England Dragway a couple of times back in the late 60s. Once I was up at the big end and watched as he ran the entire quarter on the rear wheel. They called him the "Michigan Madman" for a reason, but he was a great showman.......Bill S
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05-07-2012, 04:13 PM
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Re: E.J. Potter
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: L-79 Nova</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Lost another one. The older guys will remember. Ron...
http://www.dailytribune.com/article/20120503/NEWS03/120509832/michigan-madman-e-j-potter-dies-at-71-(with-video) </div></div> Aw, man. This has just got to stop. EJ was a staple of my growing up years here in southeast Michigan. K
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