Musclecar Reunion and Nostalgia Drags--- KCIR

[bashton]

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Talked to the old man earlier...for some reason, they're only letting them run the 1/8th? Anyway, "Red Alert" had a miss and was waaaay off for some reason...like a low-7 second ET, but I think Howie went like a 6.20 or something? Track is bad slick...

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1/8th? What's up with that? You can only have 1/2 the fun!!

But then...the launch is what the people like to see the most, I guess. Besides, seeing Red Alert and the 70 Gibb/Harrell Camaro next to each other on the line is worth the price of admission!

BA

[sYc]

Just got in. Had a fun wekend, in spite of Howie.

Not for sure why they wanted us to run the 1/8, but we did, Saturday afternoon. I ran and lost to a AMC Superstocker (Red developed a miss) and none of the other legends would run Howie, so he did a single. Saturday evening we decided to run with the NPCA guys, and as luck would have it, or not, depends on how you look at it, I drew Howie. Red ran better, with a fresh set of plugs, but did not matter, as Kim spanked me good, paying me back for St. Louis.

Sunday we ran with the NPCA guys again, my opponet broke out the first round, but we had to rerun because of a timing problem, the second time he put me on the trailer. On Kim's pass he cut a rear tire at the big end, which ended his day.

[Kim_Howie]

Nothing like a back tire going flat at 135 mph

[Xplantdad]

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Nothing like a back tire going flat at 135 mph

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I hope everything turned out okay!

[sYc]

Yep..no damage done.

[bashton]

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Just got in. Had a fun wekend, in spite of Howie.

Not for sure why they wanted us to run the 1/8, but we did, Saturday afternoon. I ran and lost to a AMC Superstocker (Red developed a miss) and none of the other legends would run Howie, so he did a single. Saturday evening we decided to run with the NPCA guys, and as luck would have it, or not, depends on how you look at it, I drew Howie. Red ran better, with a fresh set of plugs, but did not matter, as Kim spanked me good, paying me back for St. Louis.

Sunday we ran with the NPCA guys again, my opponet broke out the first round, but we had to rerun because of a timing problem, the second time he put me on the trailer. On Kim's pass he cut a rear tire at the big end, which ended his day.

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Gotta watch out for those AMC Guys!

BA

[ORIGLS6]

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none of the other legends would run Howie, so he did a single.

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So,....... were they afraid of the car,...............or had they heard about Howie?

Glad everyone had fun and came home safe.

[sYc]

Yeah. I think he was sandbagging. He told me he had not raced it in 10-15 years, had just put a new head gasket on Thursday, brakes were sticking, never ran a pro-tree, yada, yada. Then he goes out and does a funnycar burnout past the starting line, trees me and beats me by a tad.

Brian is a cool guy, with a really cool Superstocker, from back in the day. The best part, when I stopped to check on him as he was working on the old dual point on the return road, he looked up and said "that was the most fun I have had with that car in 15+ years."

[Kim_Howie]

Worst part is I blew a tire on the way on the trailer. I had no jack. Stopped at Auto Zone bought a 12 ton bottle jack. I also blew one on the home from St. Louis seems to be coming a pattern. Too old for some of this.

[ORIGLS6]

Trailer tires can suck the fun out of a weekend real quick! Do they make a trailer on tracks,........... or skids!