Event Coverage Southwest Nostalgia Drags HAMB Gathering in Arizona 3/14/09

excellent

 

Don't forget:

 

I dont have enough stress in my life so I took the front of the motor off last night.

A friend came over today and degree'd my cam. It seems Comp Cams puts an extra 4 degrees advance hidden in the grind and it showed up on the dyno p***es in the RPM. I guess they do that so the average knucklehead can put a big cam in their stock chevelle and have it run ok.

See you guys Saturday.

 

I'll be there but with a different car. Just trade the T for a '64 Chevelle SS.

 

Just needs a little J.B. Weld. Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

As you go into the Speedworld, you should drive right by the HAMB area. I'll be looking for all of you as you go by. We'll get everyone parked in there.

See you all tomorrow morning!

 

well I went to put the new driveshaft on tonight, I asked for it to be 1 1/2" longer but it was shorter by you guessed it 1 1/2". I will be there just driving the late model

 

had a great time and ment some cool guys, thanks for letting me be a part of it spike

here are some pics of the car show area

 

some more

 

Nice meeting everyone today.

 

i have a pic of your car too

 

I had a good time. I parked my GTO and ended up spending most of the day in tower on the mike with Hal. It was fun and weather was as good as a promotor can ask for.
It was also a pleasure to meet a few hambers in person including Spike and Glen.
here are some of my pics.

Don't forget! 3 weeks from today is my deal, everyone is invited!

Steve
<DIR>Hosting- 7th annual Nostalgic Show and Go! and swap. Drags, cool car show, parade, special exhibitions, g***ers, rails, stockers, customs and much more. coming Sunday April 5, 2009 to Speedworld. Phoenix, Az -This is Arizonas longest continuest running nostalgic event, our 7th year! www.nostalgicshowandgo.org
Also Hosting- Hosting 11th annual Pontiac Heaven, show, swap, drags, party and all around good time. Saturday April 4, 2009 at Speedworld near Phoenix, Az more info- www.pontiacheaven.org
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a few more for now.

Steve
<DIR>Hosting- 7th annual Nostalgic Show and Go! and swap. Drags, cool car show, parade, special exhibitions, g***ers, rails, stockers, customs and much more. coming Sunday April 5, 2009 to Speedworld. Phoenix, Az -This is Arizonas longest continuest running nostalgic event, our 7th year! www.nostalgicshowandgo.org
Also Hosting- Hosting 11th annual Pontiac Heaven, show, swap, drags, party and all around good time. Saturday April 4, 2009 at Speedworld near Phoenix, Az more info- www.pontiacheaven.org
</DIR>

 

Was nice meeting 49 Flatty & AZ/willis. Been nice to meet some more, maybe next time.

 

Man we had a blast today....the stuff I did this week seem to pay off. I ran a 11.54 on this daylight run.

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We waited around until evening and tried it again, it was nice and cool but the car spun and slipped for a long ways off the line and ran a 11.6. The tire pressure had dropped to 6 psi in the cool evening and I think that was too low. The p*** above was at 7.5 psi.

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Thanks to all those that stopped by.

 

Got there late --- Left early and even found out I got a rear main leak.
Guess I know what I'm doin B4 I go to DEL MAR.

 

The track photog took these and printed them out, I took a picture of his picture....

 

Glen, Here's a pic or two of your car:




Glen, who is the guy with the red 55?



Thumper (Is your name Mike? Sorry I can't remember your name. That's you in the yellow hat, right?)



I liked this guys ride:


And I'll sneak a pic of my car in too:

 

It weighs 3400 lbs. with a 406 sbc and ran a new fastest time of 11.83 yesterday.

That is Justin, he is like a brother to me, we get into a lot of trouble together. Thanks for the picture.

 

Great race and car show !! We were there from our winter campsite in Gold Canyon.

Anybody get a picture of the white La Dawri drag car ??

Glen, your Model A is wonderful - very well engineered and built car !

 

Yup, that goofy lookin' fella is me. I got as far semi-finals in the Trophy cl***, final 3 cars in a field of about 25. It was an ugly trip to the semis for me, all my runs were terrible, but my opponents were all kind enough to red light. Once at the semis, I ran aginst a *****in' 426 Max Wedge powered '64 Dodge and my buddy Bob drew a by run in his '57 Ford Pick Up. My last run was a good one, but the guy in the Dodge beat me by 4 hundredths of a second, pretty close. My buddy bob then beat the Dodge in the finals.

I spent the entire day at the track, made a bunch of p***es and had a blast. My thanks to Marc and Spike and the Standard 1320 guys for puttin' on this shindig.

 

That guy was me Justin. My name on the board is THESNEAKYTIKI. Do you have any other pics of the car from the event? I would love to see them. Thanks

 

I was really impressed with your car, I think these pics are from the 11.8 run. I've seen your ride at the GoodGuys last fall and a couple of times elsewhere. One of these days I'm going to be asking you about your set up.

I've already weeded out most of the pics from the event, but here's what I have left that you'd be interested in:

 

Thanks for the extra pics. Get with me someday and I will give you the details.

 

Here is a few pics I took from last weekend. Great show! I enjoyed meeting you guys and look forward to see you again.

 

glad to see my old willys aero black magic 2 there, I wanted to race that deal, at least my old car did.... great pics thanks guys

 

My son and I attended and had a great day. He cut out with the camera and came back with lots of shots. Here's a link to my photobucket album and let me say thanks for the hospitality Arizona

http://s258.photobucket.com/albums/hh254/ardyboyjr/Wittmann/

 

Thank's to everybody that attended and helped spread the word about our race & show, Also a Big Thanks to Pete-(49 Flatty) & Jason & Megan-(AZWillis) for hosting the HAMB area - directing the car show parking - hanging banners and raising pop up canopys. I'll be posting pics soon, I took a couple of days off to unwind.

 

Great pics, thanks!

 

Thanks to everyone Spike mentioned and also to each and everyone who attended. This was our biggest event yet, and it proves that, even in this economy... Old cars are where it's at ! ...
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We've decided to run our Straight Axle Elimator as a regular category, as opposed to a bonus deal...which means you'll be able to tech in to that cl*** and time trial with the other entries.
Now we'll need to decide whether to just have a sponsor for that cl*** and pay winner only, or do you guys want to kick in a lane fee . We would pay back 100% of that money ,and go back atleast to the semi's , or more
I'm open to suggestions on this.

Oh yeah, one more thing for now .
Congratulations to Ken Ackman (aka Spike) ,who picked the pocket of his good friend Willie Wray, of Auto and Truck Spe******t, who posted the award money in this cl***.
Spike downed all the compe***ion ,for a big first place win , using a .008 light in the final to shut down veteran bracket- racer Leno Cimarroli and his straight- axle Mustang.


I'll post some pics soon ,and don't forget our next race date at the bottom of this page.

MY