Waaay Northeast Drag Racing

[jim sanders]

very nice !! the folks up there really take great pride in their cars

[Rapid Randy Baker]

Great looking group of car for sure!!!

[flyinhillbilly]

man, my dial up is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too slow for this thread

[WildcatOne]

That's some of the finest hot rods I've seen in some time. Excellent group! Thanks for showing us, Maritime! The '55 Biscayne is beautiful...the Javelins are also rare and apparently in mint condition. Great stuff! I'll bet that was a blast! Cheers, WC1

[pro70z28]

pics.

[Novel-T]

Thanks for the pictures,Don.Glad the race was a success

[Lippy]

Don, thanks for the pics, nice cars!! Glad it was a success!!

[Maritime Drag Racing]

Labour Day Weekend at Raceway Park, Prince Edward Island - hard to believe it's closing in on 40 years that we've been doing this annual trek. We left Cape Breton at 3:45 PM Friday and managed to just catch the 7:30 ferry to the land of Red Mud, Potatoes and Anne of Green Gables. After a few beer and too much food on Friday night we took the 5 minute drive to the track on Saturday AM and unloaded the Camaro. First pass was a 9:58 @ 141.77.

After 4 more passes on Saturday all between 9.53 and 9.57 we entered the Gamblers race with a 9.53 dial. Unfortunately an oil leak from the distributor gasket got us pushed off the starting line and back to the pits. Changing out the paper gasket for an o-ring cured that problem and we were all ready for eliminations on Sunday

After two time trials Sunday AM we put the 9.53 dial back on the window and made our qualifying pass. That put us in the #2 spot on what looked like the "easy side" of the ladder and it did pay off with a couple of round wins. Anyhow, when we got down to 12 cars Lenny was a little red at .497 when he ran the #1 qualifier and we were back in the trailer.
We decided to stay an extra night to watch the NASCAR race on TV and do a little more eating and partying. What we didn't know was there was a "Black Eyed Peas" concert in Charlottetown Sunday night and when we got back to the ferry Monday AM there was a HUGE lineup to board the ferry(below). That killed most of the day and we never got home until suppertime yesterday. But it was still a FUN weekend.

One thing I didn't mention was the fact it rained hard all the way from the Ferry Terminal to home. We caught up with and passed this bone stock Model T with a California plate on the highway between the ferry and New Glasgow. An older couple were wrapped in blankets and drenched to the bone and tooling along at about 45 MPH.

[wheelzman]

Maritime, now that's unusual a dragstrip with grass down the middle. Ifn you get crossed up and change lanes you can do a little farming on the way. Looks like a nice track.
Those ferry trips can be a killer of time can't they? My brother lives on the San Juan Island off the coast of Washington state and that ferry ride eliminates half a day for a round trip. Glad you had a good time.

[Lippy]

Thanks Maritime for the pics and report, that is just cool!!!!