Event Coverage HAMB Drags Home Safely Roll Call

After talking to you about yours and Don Cyr has a Tremec in his 55 ford (beutiful car) Im pretty much convinced thats the way to go. I race once a year and the rest of the time its pretty much my driver when Im home.

 

arent you supposed to be cleanin your shop?????

 

The waterpump I had to replace on the way there worked fine.

After stopping in Springfield to walk the swap I made it home safely.
The van decided it would behave itself most of the way. The front passenger side wheel bearing is going bad...grumbling and making a racket. Started about 40 miles from St. Louis. I'll get after it this week.

Looking forward to NEXT YEAR all ready!!

Glenn

 

I called in a maid service, I just dont have the energy....boy are they gonna be surprised.

 

I was really "bummed out" early Friday morning when the wife and I left in our '56 Chevy headed from Indy to the drags and the '56 started running really bad. I "nursed "it home unloaded all the bags into the Escort and headed out again. I had cheered up some when we made it to the Springfield swap meet. Saturday morning at the drags as a spectator I started feeling better. By the end of the day after seeing great drag races and meeting nice people I felt much better. Looking forward to next year as a participant. The '56 is over at Tom Culbertson's shop to get fixed. Thanks to all for a great event! We really enjoyed ourselves!

 

Home fine no breakage have to get some new shoes on the rear of car the pro-street hoosiers didnt hook too good but ill be ready for the old geezer drags in council bluffs 13th and 14th.Had fun again this year drove the shit out of the car,glad to see Chuck Comer brought out a few of his hidden treasures.First pass i raced car #35 anybody know who it was name isnt on the slip.

 

You must have tossed on a new AC belt after the drags!

Did not hear you went through a power steering pump.

We made it back about 1AM last night.

 

We're home finally.

1) The steel belt on one of our tires decided it should be on the outside of the tire instead of the inside - changed tire !!
2) Our speedometer had us going from 20 MPH to 90 MPH in a quarter of a second - laughed !!
3) Our wipers quit leaving us to drive 3.5 hours in the rain - put more Rain-X on the windshield !!
4) Time at the HAMB Drags - PRICELESS

 

1) Michelle and I made it home safely in our stylin' Enterprise Grand Prix. 9 hours flat to Chicago courtesy of Mr. T We headed straight to McNamara's.
2) Thanks to TudorJeff (and LouverDude and Gerg) for keeping us occupied with all of the fun text messages on the way home.
3) Greezy -
a) I will be right over in my maid's uniform
and
b) If you don't come to the Pileup... well... that's just silly....

 

Cindy & I got Eric to take our car/trailer home, we are on vacation this week, stopped in Branson last night for a couple of days. glad to hear everyone made it back ok so far, sorry to hear about Joyce's truck, we went thru OK city & Tulsa, didn't miss that bump bump bump BAM, bump bump bump BAM all the way on 69 as in past years! Buzzard, I unloaded my roadster in '04, Jack's truck broke down, drove from Sherman to Joplin, couple years ago Pistons & Paint unloaded mine drove to Nick's house with his car on my trailer, his RF wheel bearing cratered .
Good to see everyone,meet new people!

 

You have one of those too???

 

My dad, Flathead Dools, and Kyle Ford, the Aussie with a camera, all made it back to JC, MO with no issues. Glad to see that all others made it back. It was nice to meet the ones I hadn't and good to see the ones I already had. See ya next year if not before!

 

rash&mommarash,pops ,whitey,monkey and his MUCH better half.and myself made it home .no flat tires ,hoods stayed closed.oh and rashys brother john.

 

I'm thinking photographic confirmation is required.

 

Back home late last night,drove right past a tornado and didn't know it..

 

Denise glad to hear you guys are back safe. ( my two favorite hot-rod girls ) Despite all the week-end problems me and Malcolm rolled into Omaha bout 3P.M. The wagon was limping a little on 6 or 7 cylinders, but made it back safe. Was great seeing you. Gary

 

Gene and Dean Johnson loaned me their Trailblazer and trailer. Got the wounded coupe unloaded and put away before noon yesterday.

 

I wuz gonna say, perhaps trailer the cars until I realized I've had more trouble (tires) with the trailer than with the 32....

 

ElP and I got back about 3:30. AC relay quit again leaving payson, Had some rain into the valley so it wasn't too hot.

Great to hear that everyone made it home alright.

Now I have to stat saving for Austin next year!

Thanks for the ride in Big Olds Denise. It was a pleasure to help out on him.


jerry

 

Pulled in around midnight lastnight after a fifteen hour drive(with a few on ramp naps) ,crashed and was up at 7:00am and off to work!!! Life sucks now except for the fact that this will happen again 364 day from now. Only 330 days till I start working on my car to bring it back for 2009 HAMB DRAGS!!!

 

Denise, it was great to finally meet you.

We made it home safely too with zero problems. Were crusing down I44 from Joplin to Tulsa and saw several HAMB'rs pulling along in their trailers as we cruised on by. We even were passed by Crab and his buddy Chris in their 32 and 39 cars. That was pretty cool in itself.

Great to meet everyone, and we look forward to doing it all again soon!

And BigKen - we're working on the plans for the 'Thaw. Just gotta work out the hotel and time arrangements, but it's all in the plans.

 

I was driving the 32 5 window and saw the little RPU. It was cool seeing Goztrider cruising down 44. I usually have my camera with me and this was no exception.
CRAB

 

Yup, dropped off Jerry and immediately went through a hail storm! Got a bit warm in the truck without any air moving but everything is fine.

My power steering pump has been making some noise on the way out but that was about it. The second to last run I made it gave up completely but did not drop any fluid. Jerry and I left a bit early to stop at an O'rileys on the way back to the hotel. I replaced the pump and in doing so managed to drop every tool and part I had at least twice often losing said items in the black unknown. Many offered a hand and a beer to help and I thank you for your assistance!

On the return trip home the main power relay cooked itself and was replaced as mentioned before. Today in Grants it gave up completely. I will investigate it further but I belive the blower motor was slowly dieing and has finally given up. Time to upgrade I suppose.

All in all, we detuned it to a mere 480-500 HP at the wheels for the trip, managed an average 14 MPG and didn't miss a lick. Now I want to upgrade my fuel system and change the cam so I can really run a 1000 crank shaft HP and see if the low 11's can actually happen!

 

We rolled in about 8 pm with the trailer still empty. Lots of little hiccups, but we all made it. Talk about a kick ass weekend!

 

We made it home mid-day monday after a few issues with the battery of the van.
I can't say as much for whatever hit my hood at 90mph!