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We can't have a nostalgia area and leave this track out. No frickin way!
I raced my Chevelle for the first time at this track. It was '75 and I had just put headers on her. I had tested it out on the street and felt pretty good about what she'd run. I pull into the pits and uncap the headers. If my adrenaline had a rev limiter and it was set at 6k, I had to be at 5800 that day! I pull up into staging and look over to see who I'd run against and it was a girl in some basic grocery-getter. Bob Doolittle was the staging director and was getting ready to line me up with the girl...I thought. All of a sudden a Camaro idling about 3k came up in the very right lane which was reserved for hi-powered drag cars and Bob pointed at me and then to the Camaro!!! I shook my head like I wasn't going to run him and Bob angrily motioned me to get my ass up there!
I do my burnout and stage. The tree comes down and we leave. As my tach hit 4500 the car felt like it was running out of breath and I shift to 2nd. The Camaro's win light comes on and I'm still in 2nd gear! I picked up my timeslip and it said 14.64
I was so embarassed that I said I'd never race again. I pulled back into the pits and put my mufflers on and left.
Later after messing around with the car I found out that the Doug Thorley headers were real short and worked best with exhaust connected. When I uncapped the exhaust it had leaned the car out and obviously needed to be jetted up.
I won a trophy on the last day the track was open. Unfortunately, one of my slicks went flat and I figured I was through. My friend said why not try anyway with my street tires? The closest car in my class was one of those Scrambler Ramblers. I figured all I had to do was beat him and I had my trophy. When they called my class up, all the other cars failed to show. Now I had a problem. In order to win a trophy on a single, you had to run within a second of the track record which was 12.40. The best I was able to run up to this point was a 13.65.
So I left the line at half throttle spinning and as soon as I felt the tires grab I floored it and clicked it into 2nd. When I came back and got my timeslip it had run a 13.38! I got the trophy and they said good-bye forever.
I raced my Chevelle for the first time at this track. It was '75 and I had just put headers on her. I had tested it out on the street and felt pretty good about what she'd run. I pull into the pits and uncap the headers. If my adrenaline had a rev limiter and it was set at 6k, I had to be at 5800 that day! I pull up into staging and look over to see who I'd run against and it was a girl in some basic grocery-getter. Bob Doolittle was the staging director and was getting ready to line me up with the girl...I thought. All of a sudden a Camaro idling about 3k came up in the very right lane which was reserved for hi-powered drag cars and Bob pointed at me and then to the Camaro!!! I shook my head like I wasn't going to run him and Bob angrily motioned me to get my ass up there!
I do my burnout and stage. The tree comes down and we leave. As my tach hit 4500 the car felt like it was running out of breath and I shift to 2nd. The Camaro's win light comes on and I'm still in 2nd gear! I picked up my timeslip and it said 14.64
I was so embarassed that I said I'd never race again. I pulled back into the pits and put my mufflers on and left. Later after messing around with the car I found out that the Doug Thorley headers were real short and worked best with exhaust connected. When I uncapped the exhaust it had leaned the car out and obviously needed to be jetted up.
I won a trophy on the last day the track was open. Unfortunately, one of my slicks went flat and I figured I was through. My friend said why not try anyway with my street tires? The closest car in my class was one of those Scrambler Ramblers. I figured all I had to do was beat him and I had my trophy. When they called my class up, all the other cars failed to show. Now I had a problem. In order to win a trophy on a single, you had to run within a second of the track record which was 12.40. The best I was able to run up to this point was a 13.65.
So I left the line at half throttle spinning and as soon as I felt the tires grab I floored it and clicked it into 2nd. When I came back and got my timeslip it had run a 13.38! I got the trophy and they said good-bye forever.
. We talked to the track personnel and basically they said we had no choice but to run him????
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