Chevellbration 2010

[sYc]

Just rolled in from Chevellabration, Diana and I had a great time, spending time with other Chevelle owners as well as several club members.

One on the highlights, well actually the main highlight, was at the track on Thursday. I had only made a couple of passé sin Red Alert this year, so was kind of nervous, as I did not want to do anything to embarrass RA in front of all of the Chevelle folks on hand. Well, as it turned out, no need to worry, as RA performed flawlessly, opening with a twisting, front wheel pulling 7.14 and backed by a couple of .08s, at around 98 MPH, which was good enough for low ET among the Chevelles. I was about to load when the PA announcer said there was a local racer with a late model Mustang in the crowd that was going to show the Chevelles how it was done. On his first pass he put down something like a 7:30, at which time the announcer then says are there any takers (Chevelles) wanting to race the Mustang.? How about Red Alert? We,, anyone who knows me I know I cannot let a challenge go, so I agreed to a one race shootout, heads up. Though it appeared I had a couple of tenths on him, I know in the world of drag racing, you never assume anything. They called us to the line, we both did out burnouts, then it was time settle things. As not to give the race away, and because I had relighted on the pass before, I made sure I was slow off of the line. The Mustang got me a .10 off the line, and a .10 at the sixty foot, but once RA settled down I had a .10 on him by the 300’ mark, taking the win light with a 7.0503 @ 98.63 to his 7.2850 @ 94.96. Needless to say the Chevelle folks cheered as I brought RA back down the return road. Later on I visited with the guy with the Mustang, really nice guy, his mustang is his daily driver, but he is one of the top guns at the track.

[Dave Rifkin]

Any pictures of the Mustang?

[Salvatore]

Way to go Tom! Sounds and looks like a great weekend!

[markjohnson]

and the Legend grows...........

[COPO PETE]

Congrats! Don'cha just love it when a plan comes together!
Peter

[sYc]

Albert was there running his ZL-1 Chevelle, neat ride, I really like the write up, on Saturday spent a lot of time going over Joe's Yenko, and Dan told me he was "forced" to cruise down in a customer's ragtop.