DOING IT FOR LOVE: WE DID IT FOR LOVE KEEPS THE MEMORIES ALIVE

 

Dave Bellover does it for love.

What does Bellover do?

Bellover, along with former Top Fuel racer Don Ewald, runs the website www.wediditforlove.com, a website designed to preserve drag racing's early history.

"Don's had this site since 1998 where he has drag racing photos with his inside commentary, basically, to each photo," Bellover explained. "I've come along to try and make it more accurate with who, what, when, where. But I'm also adding who raced who, where, and the ETs and the speeds of any particular photo. So I can take a photo with two cars from 1979, figure out who they are, where they are, and who beat who with what, ETs and speeds and things like that."

With Bellover's assistance, the site is looking to add the 1980s.

"I'm bringing in the youth of the Eighties and adding; we call it 'They did it for love in the sixties and seventies and then "They did it for money" in the Eighties," Bellover explained. "So we're bringing the eighties in, and also, I'm doing these new things like this race by race."

 

 

Bellover said he's gone through the history of Irwindale Dragstrip from 1965 to 1977 and is examining all Southern California tracks.

So how does one gain access to this historical data?

"We're subscription-based," Bellover said. "It's cheap. It's $19,95 for three months, $39,95 for six months, or $75 for a year, which is like one dinner. So if you go on, it has all this old stuff plus a bunch of features and all the nostalgia races, the March Meet and the California Hot Rod Reunion, and sometimes the reunion in Bowling Green."

Bellover said a visit to the site provides a great escape into a world where drag racing was king.

"My job is I'm enhancing and making it better and better, so I want to keep going," Bellover said. "Don's at the other end of his rainbow. So I'm trying to keep it going, and it's great. It's an obsession, an addiction for me."

It's also a mission for Bellover to correct the misinformation.

"What I can't handle on Facebook is most people are wrong, way wrong, about the information," Bellover said. "I try and bring an accurate view of each picture and that's what I'm doing, and it's great for me. If I want to get away, I just plug this in, turn it on, and there's no commercials, no popup ads, none of that stuff."

For more information, visit www.wediditforlove.com 

 

 

 

 

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