Pioneer Texas drag racer Bobby Langley, known throughout the southwest for his line of good-looking and hard-running Scorpion dragsters, died Oct. 21. He was 79.

Langley and his wife Ruth were active members of the thriving nostalgia movement, attending numerous events and cackling his Scorpion race cars. He was a past NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion honoree. In addition to his wife, Langley is survived by his son, Jack, and daughter, Judy Gregory; brother, Harold Lee Langley; four grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.