Postby WildcatOne » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:43 pm
A best-of-3 match race in June, 1962, at Dickinson, Texas, the first time I went to the drags. It was Vance Hunt vs. Bobby Langley. Two rails with 6-71 blown, cast-iron Chrysler hemis with Hilborn stacks and scoops on top, weed-burner headers, M&H slicks, and bombshell fuel tanks, running on 98%, with a flagman starter. J. L. Payne was driving for Hunt. The first round, the Scorpion had problems and Payne breezed through. The second round, both of them blasted off like a million times thunder, and they screamed beyond anything I ever imagined I'd ever hear...they ran 8-flat, and left a quarter-mile of towering columns of white smoke behind. The run was declared a dead-heat. The scent of nitromethane drifted over to my nostrils and I was instantly transformed into a lifelong fuel junkie. Cheers, WC1
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