At the age of four, Collier Schorr accompanied her father, an automotive photographer and journalist, to a local racetrack, where she watched the charismatic and youthful drag racer Charlie "Astoria Chas" Snyder at work on his dream race car, a 67 "Ko-Motion" Corvette. An article followed, with the now-eerie headline, "While Astoria Chas is doing his thing in Vietnam his friends are racing his L-88." For by the time the article was published, Charlie Snyder had gone to Vietnam, and after only one month of duty, died there ...
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At the age of four, Collier Schorr accompanied her father, an automotive photographer and journalist, to a local racetrack, where she watched the charismatic and youthful drag racer Charlie "Astoria Chas" Snyder at work on his dream race car, a 67 "Ko-Motion" Corvette. An article followed, with the now-eerie headline, "While Astoria Chas is doing his thing in Vietnam his friends are racing his L-88." For by the time the article was published, Charlie Snyder had gone to Vietnam, and after only one month of duty, died there on August 27, 1968, shortly after his twenty-first birthday. Astoria Chas never got the chance to drive his car as he had intended, and so his friends drag-raced it, setting the AHRA record for its class.
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