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Howdy all,.....Yes Riley and I are home all safe and sound as of yesterday at 4pm,...we had a couple of blowouts
threw wyoming and tried to get robbed by the tire guys but I was puuuursistant with letting them know that highway robbery is a crime
in some states and proceded to show him two reciepts from other tire stores where I had to purchase tires during our tour, the guy gave in a little and
we were baclk on our way by tuesday morning.
I want to thank all of you draglisters for all the great hospitality, fun, help and great times this last weekend at Eddyville (IOWA) and to those especially
that had a great time with the Veneys Vega,..Zappy, Stimpy,Proz28 I am glad you all enjoyed helping out and it was a great honor to have family involved.
Bill it was awesome doing your Radio show, and I look forward to hearing this episode as it gets linked here in the future,..
23T (Daryl),..what I can I say ,..Riley and I had a blast staying with you in Wooster (OHIO) and again enjoyed all the hospitalities, interenet, Guitar playing,
and food outings, along with the scenic tours of your 14 acres on the golf carts,..I hope they still all run after Rileys abuse...lol..Riley and I really enjoyed ourselfs visiting you Daryl, and we both look forward to it again another time..Thank you.
I spent today servicing the Veneys Vega, and will be heading to Seattle in the Morning for tomorrow nights GoodGuys event at Pacific Raceways in Kent Washington, so along with being tired from the 1800 miles coming back home I used today to thrash on the car to keep the car in tip top shape she sounds
way mean up here in this Northwest Air...
I will right up a Free wheel Burnin Tour blog here in a couple of days if I can ever settle down, for all of you to read of Riley and I`s adventures,..so

Thank you all for having us be apart of this wonderful group of Draglist.com

stay tuned

Vic

Glad you & Riley are home safe. Daryl & Craftygirl are great folks. I always enjoy my time with them. Enjoy the Goodguy's event, run safe, run well. Hi to Edna & Riley. Lookin forward to your report.

HEY VIC CHECK THIS OUT.

http://www.racersreunionradio.com/archive.php

It's the archived show from last Friday Night @ the hotel in Oskaloosa.

Glad you 2 made it home safe and sound .

Glad you guys made it home alright. Look forward to your reports.

Great news... thanks for coming, Vic. We all lived our dreams a little through you and Riley. bp

So this past weekend was the Neon Nights friday night cruise, Saturday car show, and sunday Fun Drags at the Dallesport Airport
near my home town.
This was the 6th annual 1/8 mile Fun Drags where they take a portion of the unused air strip set up some jearsey barriors and low budget timing Equiptment
to run a 1/8 mile deal. I guess back in the early 60`s there was a full 1/4 mile drag strip here, but that is all I have heard.
There is a little rubber from last year still in place, but this year they had no VHT at all so it was a crap shoot.
Typically it will draw in 150 cars to race in either, Super Pro, Pro, Sportsmen, and Import , and Motorcylces.
The spectator count will reach near 1500 to 2000 people at $5.00 a carload,.it keeps getting bigger and bigger. So on Sunday, it was roll the dice and
just try and do big burnouts and try to get the car to launch and keep it straight, and run it to about 400 feet,...There is only 610 feet of shut down here then concreat retainers. so lifting early or not running hard is mandatory for me, I am usually the only one with a serious fast car.
On my first run I went 6.2 seconds, on the second run in the vid I go 7.2 seconds because I lifted early with it still in 1st gear. the fast Super pro car managed a 7.40 so I was still ok with being the fastest there,..hehehehehe.....
It was fun,..it was stinking Hot, 102 degrees, no shade, and my fire suit,..good thing I did a little hot weather practice back younder last month
so it wasnt too bad to get strapped in early to make my runs,......I survived,..the Veneys Vega Survived,..tons of compliments, and OH MAN,s, the crowd
dug it and many had never seen a Funny Car before, let alone mine with no blower so it was really awesome to finally get to show a little of my stuff
to all the locals...
Here are two vids,..1 burnout,..and 1 so called run......Enjoy!!!!!!

Vic

Burnout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Lkx-mwDnw

The Run,...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyDWJNBh5po

Cool vid... Vic is keeping on keeping on! bp

So like check it out,....

So this weekend was the Div 6 lucas oil series races in Seattle, and I new I would probly be going to help Clint out on his alky flopper
bUt they also booked in 7 or 8 Nitro Nostalgia flopper, so I figured I might be doing double duty.
So on the other hand I am thinking my chassis is up for cert next month and I will take it there and get the chassis re certed,....So I get there Friday at about
4 pm,..there is one more round of alky qaulifying to go, and only 5 alky floppers and 3 alky diggers,..Clint has about 6 guys around and I helped a little, twist here, a snug here, and that was a bout it...so I get the inspector to my car to cert it and he says your good for 3 years, you have one more year left, and I say Cool thats awesome to know.
So now to the really cool part,..so there are only 6 maybe 7 Nostalgia funny cars and Rich Carlson went had a chat with the track manager, well long story short, on Saturday a track official pulls up and hands me a tech card and says you run at 6 and 9,..and I am like woooo hoooo I get to make two passes.
So I pass tech, and its time to roll the Nostalgia cars up to the line and all the fuel cars are in one lane and my Bro tows me up the right lane to the head of the pack,..I mean it made sence to me run me first, then the fuel cars,..well they didnt want a single. So guess who I get to run against and in what ????
I get to run against my buddy Mr. Clint Thompson in his No Laughing Matter 1970 Mustang fuel car,..
We had a brief chat that I wouldnt burn him done and such and pretty much new what to do,.he was going to sit for 2.5 to 3 seconds to give me a head start.
so We fired up roll threw the water box stop and we both mat the loud pedals and begin the burnouts,.well his car was so loud I couldnt here the Veneys Vega so I just matted it and rolled with it,...Now out about 150 to 200 feet I can see Clint getting out of it and I can hear my car and it is just boiling the hides and I just keep on smokin the suckrs right up to half track (John Force yea baby) it was the biggest burnout I have ever done,..I getter rollin in reveres at 20 mph, and come up on Clint and idle back with him,..we all get stopped and put into Forward and I let him roll forward to his wife at the line and I do 3 or 4 dry hops up to the line,..I give a glance over and see him going to roll in, so I light the top bulb and then Clint,..Now this is where it gets messed up,..Both of us have the top bulbs on and I wait about 2 or 3 seconds and I stage andhave the trans brake set all while looking at clints bulb wait and waiting and waiting for Clint to be full staged,..he waited to long or did not have enough time to go to the high side grab some brake, let the clutch out and roll in, It had to have been milli seconds, but Clint Timed out and my Grn came on, and his went Red,...well I thought thats wierd, and quickly said gotta go !!!! 1.16 light for me,..so
now Ive got the wheels 2 feet in the air and its going straight and its a great run 8.13@163,..so all the while Clint gave me the 3 seconds and never caught me and in the process at 1,000 ft he popped the burst panel and had a small flash fire and they stopped us both on the track just before the turn off and I am thinking to myself wholly sh*t what just happend and now Clints on fire,.....so amother long storie short Clint timed out and got no time slip and I might need to give a fuel car in the future alot more time to stage before I go in , and also that This is why Fuel funny cars dont run against Injected alky cars.
But Clint and I talked after words and it was all good we both know what happend but still enjoyed linning up against eachother and running it all out.
The Crowd gave me and the Veneys Vega a standing ovation when we came back up the return road, it was quite thrilling too, the little injected car beat the AA/FC,..Huh,...bet that wont ever happen again.....It was a blast....the second run later they had me run first on a solo,..again another career best burnout, dry hops and wheels up launch carding a 8.26@162...so atleast now I can say I staged up against a fuel car, and well,,..basically beat it to the stripes,..wow it was cool,..........I know there is atleast one video of the burnout that will be out soon, along with some great photos,..so as they arrive and get released I will share with ya all, my once in a lifetime run, and shot at running against a Nostalgia Fuel Funny Car,....Look out Randy I am getting some pratice...Bwaahahahahaha

Bic Filler