Henry Walther, a prominent member of the championship-winning Larry Minor Racing Top Fuel team of the 1980s, perhaps said it best: “If you can’t get along with Bernie Fedderly, you have a problem.”

Fedderly, Minor, Gary Beck, Ed McCulloch, Walther, Willie Wolter, Terry Caldwell, Dick Veenstra, and assorted others were part of what they jokingly called “the Hemet Mob” — Minor’s Southern California hometown and their base of operations — back in those killer 1980s when their Gary Beck-driven blue car ran rampant over the Top Fuel class, and they all knew what many before knew and many after would learn: Bernie Fedderly was a gentleman among gentlemen paired with an inquisitive mind and a desire to win.  READ MORE