[Xplantdad]

One Wednesday night, I took my Nova to "grudge night" at OCIR. As I was pulling up to the entrance of the track, I noticed that a photog from Hot Rod was there shooting Bob Tietz's Opel for the cover. He was up on a 12 foot ladder.

I knew right then what I had to do. I power braked a did about a minute long burnout, which I concluded by hitting second gear really hard, and got a 12-15 foot patch in third.

The photog turned around on his ladder while I was doing this, and snapped off some shots. I wish that I had some of those photos..they'd be pretty cool now. Once I got into the track, the tech inspector said "don't ever do that again, okay?" and smiled, and started to laugh.

Incidentally, OCIR is long since gone. But the service road that lead to it is still there...if you know how to find it. The last time I was there in 1996, there was still a faded reminder of my burnout.