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taking over the seat in Dale’s 1970 Corvette race car. Back home in Pascagoula after a short stint as a professional baseball player, Shannon was ready to race as much as possible, and that’s exactly what he did. Dominating the bracket racing scene in the Southeast and slowly making a name for himself on the street in his 1969 Chevelle eventually landed him
a role on the hit series Street Outlaws New Orleans. After the series ended, Shannon and Dale took on their most
expensive and most powerful build to date.
The 1964 tube chassis Corvette sat in Dale Poole’s garage for 25 years only as a rolling chassis, but that was going to change. The two generations went to work on the car and nine months later they unveiled the build at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. The car has toured the country, as well as Canada, shooting a new TV series called The Call Out. An episode is scheduled to be lmed this year at Gulfport Dragway during Cruisin’ the Coast.
The car is currently out of commission
due to a blow-back wreck at the Gulfport Dragway earlier this year. Shannon will enter the staging lanes for the rst time since the wreck at Gulfport Dragway while lming The Call Out.
The next phase of this family tradition has spun into a family business, Poole Speed, which focuses on keeping the nostalgia of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s alive. From daily drivers to full blown race cars and everything in between, Poole Speed has the answer. Regardless of your preference, the common thread between Poole Speed builds is horsepower – and lots of it. The rst build for Poole Speed was a
1969
1962
1964
C10 Farm Truck.
Impala.
tube chassis Corvette.