Did someone say Drag Race?

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Today was the Coulee Region Mopar Show which is held at the LaCrosse county fairgrounds about 15 minutes away from home. What with being busy packing and such for the move I had no set plans to attend this year but at about 11:00 this morning the weather looked good and I had the urge to drag out the car and attend.
So I pulled the RR out and went, dusty car and all. :D I parked the car on the show field and wandered the swap area meeting up with some familiar faces (Didn't see ya there Dave...did you make it?) when the DJ announced there would be exibition drag racing on the 5/8ths mile oval track located on the grounds. My ears perked up and I scurried off to learn more. :giggedy:
Turns out we were to be the guinea pigs for future drag events to be held at the track and about 12 cars signed up....we had a little of everything mostly Mopars, a 70 Cuda ragtop (belongs to the car show organizer, Thanks Eric.:) ) 68 RR, 69 Coronet, Mid 60's Valiant, Challenger ragtop to name a few along with a Nova, late model Camaro and a Subaru Forester...don't laugh that Forester made it to the semi final.:eek:

The track was a short 350 feet on the front straight of the paved oval and no burnouts allowed as it was all asphalt and the track owner did not want any "divots" on his track. A removable steel plate is planned for burnouts in the future...:rolleyes:

Needless to say track prep was non existant and 1st gear was all wheelspin with the car finally hooking on the shift into 2nd for the sprint to the line. It was double elimination and I got the Nova first time out, it sounded fast but I dispatched of it with ease. :cool: I lost one round to the Valiant (very healthy smallblock with a 4 gear) and that was my only loss in the elimination rounds. One more loss and I was out so it was crunch time, time to get serious.;) That little Subaru was beating everyone with it's AWD and zero wheelspin off the line, everyone was stunned.
That is until I came up next to it and finally put in down in the final elimination run....the crowd went wild.:dance:
The finals had me up against a fella I know from my town in his latest ride, a 68 RR with a very good running warmed over 383. The final was a 2 out of 3 elimination round and he got me by 2 feet the first run and had me worried. The final 2 rounds went to me, once by about 4 feet and in the final run I wupped him soundly and was the winner of the event!!!:nanna: :calvin:

Took my bows, shook the runner ups hand and took the car back to the show field and opened the hood to cool it off before heading home and I was swarmed by people from the grandstands wanting to see the car and congratulate me...Man that was fun, sure glad I decided to attend!!!:dance:
 
Sounds like a good time was had. Congrats on the takedowns!!:clap:
 
Congrats on a fun time. But as you would say to others:nopics: :bwuhaha: :bwuhaha: :bwuhaha: :bwuhaha: :bwuhaha: :bwuhaha: :bwuhaha: Glad you had fun.
 
Sorry about the no pics deal :shifty: ..the camera memory was full and I kinda flew out the door and left it behind. Had I known what was actually to partake today the camera certainly would have come along.:doh:

There will be more of these races this summer and I certainly plan to do it again. The "official" first race is next Friday night but alas we will be right in the middle of moving and I will not be able to attend. :(
It's much like street racing with a flagman standing between the cars and headsup run what ya brung rules with no handicapps. Fun stuff that.:)

As a side note those 2 Chevys I mentioned never had a chance against all those Mopars, neither one managed to win a single round and were quickly eliminated.:D
 
Cool experience Beeper! I am glad you shared it with us :xl: I love the part where the brand x guys get sent home by the good guys :giggedy:
 
Sounds like a real hoot. Would have like to see it. A pic or two, or maybe, a clip.:shifty:
 
I had to work overtime on that day :( , i got the cash, but not the time. Would've been cool to have attended that with you (Dave was trying to get me out there with the D100, but sadly, those plans were scraped :( ) Sounds like i could've shot those chevy's down with my Dakota:bwuhaha: , But alas, i think i too, would have been the next one to go :doh:

Wish they'd do sometihng like that out here, then that might give me an excuse to put in that eletric fan in my Dakota (3,000 CFM pusher/Puller fan). Oh well, maybe next year. Perhaps, if my girlfriend sticks around (she's planning on going off to graduate school, or she has some job offers in California :( , but she's gonna take me along once my schooling is done :cool: ) I'll take her out there. She's not a big mopar nut (mainly for the fact she doesn't know to much about cars except the basic maintinece) but she loves drag racing.

But aside from my hoopla there, nice job at drags [smilie=i: :bravo:
 
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