He was initially named as an emergency for the game but was called onto the bench when Ray Gabelich withdrew from the selected side on the day of the game.
Rae Fullen, mother-in-law of 8th District Long Beach Councilmember Rae Gabelich, passed away on Oct. 30 2011, after bySignal Tribune.!
Gary Gabelich
20th-century American motorsport driver and land speed record holder
Gary Michael Gabelich (CroatianGabelić; August 29, 1940 – January 26, 1984) was an American motorsport driver who set the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Land Speed Record (LSR) with the rocket carBlue Flame on October 23, 1970,[1] on a dry lake bed at Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah.[2][3]
Personal life
Gary Michael Gabelich[4] was born 29 August 1940 and was raised in southern California and attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School.
He grew up during the height of the Southern California race scene and became friends with many famous racers of the era like drag racerTom McEwen. The nearby Lions Drag Strip was adjacent to Long Beach and he was influenced by the NHRA drag racing legend Big Joe Reath of the Reath Automotive Speed Shop in Long Beach.[5][6] Gabelich married Rae Marie Ramsey (born 1946).
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