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  Dennis in Lititz PA

I enjoyed every minute of being there for the Shootout and I am already making plans for next year! I do hope Tony Fritz will hold Fast Fords another year. I know that he was not happy with the overall number of racers on Saturday and Sunday especially since the weather was good. But if you folks think it a good track and venue I will certainly encourage him to keep Fast Fords at Dragway 42. Compared to many of you I know very little about drag racing so I do value your opinions on these things.

It was a treat to not only hook up with Ted in the timed runs on Saturday morning but especially to make it to the final round with him in eliminations. I am working on another video of my run against Ted but if you want to see a little bit of my bye run I have a video here: 


https://youtu.be/KPKZpioU2kk

My best run of the day was a 16.0044 and I feel like I could have been in the 15's if I wasn't so itchy at the line and burning rubber at the lights. The E4 certainly made the engine pick up quite a bit and I wound up above 5,000 rpm easily for each shift. I did notice that Jim Cochran had a set of drag radials on his car and and what looked to be stock wheels - I would think this is the route I would need to go if I want to maintain a street car that races at the track occasionally. But, knowing me, I will be working on going a little faster in this thing so more modifications or even a swap to the 312 I am building is on the way.  I just can't leave well enough alone!

It was good to meet David Church. I believe he had some transmission trouble, but I loved that yellow Thunderbird!






Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com

Here are the final results for all the classes for both Saturday and Sunday.  The air was really good on Saturday and helped my car to top the 150 MPH mark in the quarter.  Congrats to Daniel for making it a final round match up for the two of us on Saturday.  Harry's big 1960 Merc is still a force to be reckoned with as evidenced by his win on Sunday.
  

  

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Nice to meet you too. Glad you made the trip and hope to see you again soon.

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Thanks for the pictures. Hope to see and hear more in time.

       A  L  A  N   F  R  A  K  E  S   ~  Tulsa, OK    

I had a good time, was nice meeting some of the people from the forum. 

Located in Harford County Maryland 

The trans brake would not work after it got hot from the 1st run and the water pump quit too (ended up being a wire on the pump but we had it out so figured to replace it). Tried foot braking it but that takes the pucker facter out. Larry Short was there and convinced me he would take me the 44 miles to Summit but not in his Thunderbold.😥 At Summit I first asked for an electric water pump for a 71 Cleveland and they had only 1 so we got it. Then asked for the power glide solenoid both looked like the ones we brought. Back at the track the input and output threads were the wrong size on the pump and the threads on the trans solenoid were wrong too. I'm thinking he gave us a solenoid for a Cleveland and not a power glide. Fixed the pump wire and reinstalled it and the old solenoid. Drove it to the trailer and winched it in.. Started it up on Sunday and the car would not move except it would roll in park. It's in Scrub quarantine now and I'm back to driving the White Y-Block Bird.

  Vic Correnti

Don't tell me that is a red bulb in the right lane!  Nah,    Joe-JDC

JDC

and a few more...



I will let Vic explain more of this issue when he is able to get on here, but suffice to say he brought a really hot 9 second car and did make some passes. I may have video of one of his runs, and a few other stills. I will have to check. At any rate, he tried to get some parts from Summit on Saturday afternoon/evening I believe and things did not pan out. I will say this, that car was something else!

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com