Event Coverage RPM Nationals 2019 - photos

Friggen Hoodlum...must have been a rare Ginger Striped Purple Breasted Furry Moth sighting to heck with Drag Racing...

 

I got more to post later, got a gig to do tonight

 

Thanks for your efforts, that's a lot of cool stuff @Blues4U...

 

That's my boy Justin in the 27, he threw this car together for F.A.S.T. back in May and has about got it dialed in now. Pretty good performer for what it is. The engine is just an old A block that we cleaned up and bolted back together with nothing more than a reground cam and a swap meet Winfield head from Tyler Weeks. The head has been surfaced so much before we got it the compression must be close to 9:1. Runs strong though.


That's Tyler who we got the head from, he runs the hell out of that car, not sure how many times he went around but he likes to rack up passes and wears it like a badge of honor. He gets in such a hurry he almost ran me over while I was standing next to my car in staging. lol All good.

 

OK, back to some stationary shots. Some more cars in the show I missed earlier, and some from the pits.


I hope the vintage Indian bike isn't too OT



Check out the Hal DOHC engine:

 

Enjoyed the pics. Thanks for sharing.
Jim

 

Thanks Jim. Check back later, I'll have more posted up.

 

The # 69 , 27 Roadster is out of the Seattle area, I believe. It's perhaps the most traveled race car today, he had it at the Toutle Drags, in August, great car!

 

That's Jerry Chinn's car and you're right he takes it everywhere. He just got back from the Race of Gentlemen.

 

Great photos, thanks for posting!

 

Thanks for the great pics.

 

Thanks for the pics. That was my first time there. It was a choice between Bakersfield, been there a few times, and the Nationals and I'm happy I went with the Nationals. Great event.

 

Back to some action photos.

Here's that Hal DOHC car in action, it sounded awesome!




Here's @mctim64 in his first elimination round, getting off the line behind his competitor:


Rowing through the gears, trying to reel him in


And pulling ahead at the finish


More random race shots

 

Marty, the roadster was raced in the SLC, Ogden, Utah area for many years and had everything from a Flathead, Ardun and a Jimmy 6 powering it. Great to see it still being enjoyed.
Here is a pic of it at the old SLC track with the Ardun.

Mick

 

And an earlier shot from when it was still a street driven roadster.

 

That's Mike Moore of Oregon, He built the quick change that I am running in my T. He also is running one and the #11 32 that kicked my a** was also sporting a Mike Moore QC serial #1. He is a true craftsman and a wiley racer, he got the jump on me and was a tough one to catch.

 

Neat little video made by Kris Spencer.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10156548829922124

 

Thanks for the additional info guys, that's awesome!

 

No audio? Maybe it's my computer. Kris must've been in the red sedan that I followed into the event, I was parked just behind and to the right of him. There are some pics of his sedan in the first set of photos.

 

Thanks Mick, and Jimmy B, for the info on the car, quite the history. It looked too real to be recent built car.

 

Thanks for the pics - lots of competitors this year....makes me doubly sad that I missed it...

 

Huh, I don't get audio on here either. Hit the facebook icon, then you can hear it.

 

What a great event! The cars are amazing!

 

Audio works for me on PC.

 

Looking at these reminds me of Australia HAMB. Killer cars, really good koverage, thanks.

p.s; I'm waiting for the vintage Indian blow-back lol. That thing is sweet.

 

Thanks for the pics. Looks like this event is really growing. Lots of neat cars.

 

So I'm not done posting pictures here. I posted 1 or 2 snapshots of this one earlier, taken with my backup camera. I went back for more with the good camera, and caught the owner nearby and spoke with him. I believe this is the Haruo Morishige Roadster, though it's changed some over the years, the running boards have been added back on, and the tail lights are different, but I'm pretty convinced it's the same car.

Check out post #103 on this page: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/hawaiian-roadster-survivor.598005/page-4

 

How about some more action shots?

This was some kind of exhibition run, I'm not sure what it was about, but the announcer introduced the guys in the black car as the Canadian guys, they came all the way from Canada to participate, and the yellow car is? I'm not sure. But the Canadians whipped us anyway, wasn't close.
Nice tow vehicle, eh?

This one's not bad either...


Our buddy @mctim64 back at it, winning another round...

 

OK, let's finish this up. This is the last batch of action shots:

This photo may be my favorite of the entire thread. It just seems to catch all of the great elements of the event, the cool cars, the racers themselves, the beautiful location; a cool hot rod in action, not sitting parked somewhere. Knowing now about the driver, thanks to @mctim64, that he custom builds quick change rear ends one at a time, that only makes this better.



This guy ran strong all day long. One of those old timers that just had it all together and made it look easy.

 

Thanks for all the great shots. We will be back next year, both Justin and I, better and faster. Building new engines already.