Ray has been gracious enough to attend several SCRs with his Nova, and even race it. I remember the first year at Nashville, Ray's son Mike walks over and shows me Ray's last time slip. He cut something like a .01 light,
but I noticed his ET was down. Well, when I questioned Ray about this, he kind of grinned, and then told me he accidently shifted from 1-3. We all laughed, and felt a little better, as it was good to know we were not the only ones messing up that day.
But, head to head, be careful. At SCR3, my youngest son Jonathan was there in our Camaro, racing for the first time. The first pass, he cut a nice light, ran well and won against a COPO Camaro. Well, when he returned to the pits, was pretty excited, and maybe a little cocky. But that did not last long, as his next opponent was Ray. Well, needless to say, Jon was brought back down to earth, as Ray showed him how the "big boys" do it. But, was a Kodak moment, especially for a 17 year old kid, as he has a picture of he and Ray leaving the line.
Maybe at SCR8 Ray will enlighten Charley in the finer points of drag racing.
