Big Willie Robinson was as much legend and myth as flesh and bone, and at 6’6†300 pounds with 21-inch biceps and a 58-inch chest, there was a lot of flesh and bone. Robinson was more than a drag racer, promoter and sanctioning body president, he was the man who used the power of horsepower to unite people of all colors and creeds under the banner of drag racing, once saying at a race, “Ain’t no colors here, it’s all just engines.†As the founder and president of The National and International Brotherhood of Street Racers, he used racing to bring the races together.
Robinson died Saturday morning May 19 after a long, though undisclosed illness. He was 70 years old  … More
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