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Mini Briggs Chevelle

Dave — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:40:25 +0000

Supercar Collectibles is trying to get a 1:18 scale version of the Briggs Chevelle made. The estimated price is $120. If you’re interested in one of these, please pre-order one by going to the Supercar Collectibles page for the model.

Time To Fire Your Welder

Dave — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:57:52 +0000

I saw this video through a link on ClassRacer.com and thought it was really funny.

My New Car

Dave — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:38:36 +0000

I ordered a 2007 Chevy Cobalt a few weeks ago and wasn’t expecting it to be in until mid-May. I got a phone call today saying it’s in and I can pick it up on Monday.

April Fools

Dave — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:23:53 +0000

I decided to go to Old Bridge Township Raceway Park today and go drag racing. They gave out a copy of the track’s newspaper which I read while waiting to race. One of the news snippets caught my attention:

As we go to press, the news is breaking from Raceway Park management that the owners of Old Bridge Township Raceway Park just closed on the 100% purchase of New Jersey’s two other drag strips, Atco Raceway and Island Dragway, and are now owned by Raceway Park. Immediate plans by the new owners are to modernize both race tracks with all new grandstands, new three story over the track VIP suite buildings, fully paved pit and spectator parking areas, fresh concrete and track pavement, all new food and beverage restaurants and racing at least five days a week at each track. It was also announced that each track will be awarded a national event. The names of both Atco and Island will change, as multi million dollar facility naming rights deals have been signed with two major corporations. Lastly, you should be advised that what you’ve just read is completely false and is an April Fool’s Day joke on you!

As I was reading it, I was excited that there’d be more national events in the area. I’ve been to Island Dragway and the pit/spectator parking could definitely use a repaving. It pissed me off to read that it was an April Fool’s Day joke.

Eric Medlen 1973-2007

Dave — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:49:50 +0000

Eric Medlen, driver of the Castrol Syntec Ford Mustang Funny Car for John Force Racing, passed away yesterday from injuries suffered when his race car crashed into a guardwall during a Monday test session at Gainesville Raceway. He never regained consciousness. He was 33. You can read more here.

Some Things I’d Like To See NHRA Do For The Fans

Dave — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:35:47 +0000

I’m a big fan of NHRA PowerADE Drag Racing but there are a few improvements I’d like to see done for the fans. They are, in no particular order:
1) Broadcast qualifying at the same time every race weekend. Qualifying now is shown anywhere between 5pm and 1am. If they broadcast qualifying at, or at least close to, the same time each race weekend, I’m sure there would be more viewers.
2) Broadcast eliminations at the same time every race weekend. This is a similar problem to the qualifying but the latest they broadcast the eliminations at is 10pm.
3) Broadcast qualifying and/or eliminations LIVE. They tried this a few years ago on Pay-Per-View and gave up after just one year. A better way to do it is to offer a discount for NHRA members and maybe offer a “Season Pass” like they have for football/baseball/hockey.
4) Broadcast qualifying and/or eliminations over satellite radio, preferably XM, but ONLY if the sound quality is a lot better than the audiocast NHRA members can listen to from NHRA.com.
5) Broadcast all sportsman categories, not just Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car. Even if they only broadcast the final rounds of all the sportsman categories, it would be an improvement over only showing the alcohol classes.
6) Pick one non-alcohol final that was interesting/exciting and show it before the professional classes final rounds. Some fans who only see the races on TV and never go to a national event may not know there are other classes other than Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Bike, Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car. It really doesn’t even have to be a final round. Any round of eliminations would do. The idea is to show fans who don’t know, that there are more categories than what’s being broadcast on TV now.

Most of these suggestions have been made by other people on other sites, including ClassRacer.com. I figure the more it gets said, the more NHRA might actually listen.

Frank Iaconio

Dave — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:46:46 +0000

Just for the hell of it, I decided to Google the name of a racer my father used to work for, Frank Iaconio. The first link was to a photo album containing images of cars driven by either Frank or another racer Ray Allen. Ray is the guy that used to drive the 1970 Chevelle LS6 for Briggs Chevrolet, which sold over a year ago at Barrett-Jackson for $1.15 Million.

GMail Mail Fetcher

Dave — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:23:12 +0000

Google has finally enabled the mail fetcher in Gmail. Now I can get my personal email from anywhere and it’ll be filtered out for spam.

Fantasy Drag Racing

Dave — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:21:29 +0000

I’ve heard of fantasy football, fantasy baseball, and even fantasy hockey. When I was visiting NHRA.com tonight, I found fantasy drag racing. You pick 8 drivers from 3-4 different classes (depending on whether or not Pro Stock Bike is racing that weekend). You earn points for each of those drivers based on where they qualify and how far they go in eliminations. You can even join/create a private league, just like other fantasy sports leagues, and compete against other people you know.

If Only I Had A DeLorean

Dave — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:59:24 +0000

There’s a company in Texas that sells pre-owned and remanufactured DeLoreans. On top of that, they sell accessories for DeLoreans. Two of the accessories listed in their online store are a flux capacitor and a Mr Fusion home reactor. Unfortunately these are really for sale but it would be cool if they were. The part numbers on them are kinda funny too. The flux capacitor is part number 18851985. The Mr Fusion is part number 19852015A.