WOW!!! Prudhomme Announces Retirement!
Here's a link to the story from NHRA.com
http://www.nhra.com/story/2010/1/7/prudhomme-announces-retirement-from-drag-racing/
It's just not going to be the same without the Snake. He's been a fixture on the SoCal drag racing scene as long as I've been attending races since the mid-60s and ever since I first started following NHRA racing before that. I remember the beautiful Greer-Black-Prudhomme front-engine dragster at Pomona. And the 'Snake vs. Mongoose' rivalry from the early '70s changed drag racing forever.
I know he was having difficulty finding a new sponsor since U.S. Smokeless Tobacco left last year. I wonder where his Snake Racing operation and Spencer Massey will end up.