From Texas' own John Raven: What is a Drag Racer? Between the innocence of childhood and the indignity of the front porch at the nursing home we find a delightful creature called a Drag Racer. Drag Racers come in assorted sizes, weights and colors but their common goal is to go as fast as possible and to stop before they run out of real estate. Drag Racers are found: on top of, inside of, underneath, swinging from, pushing, pulling, jumping on, running after and running from drag machines. Mothers worry about them. Fathers are proud of them. Non-racing relatives think they are crazy. Heaven protects them. Cops chase them. Mainstream media ignores them. Nobody but other Drag Racers understands them. A Drag Racer is beauty in faded jeans and a T-shirt that says Isky. A Drag Racer can be as deep as the ocean and high as a kite all at the same time. A Drag Racer, strapped in, with his race face on is way cool. A Drag Racer likes: anything loud, wrenches, firecrackers, red shop rags, bright colored paint, chrome, airplanes, jet motors, rockets, boats, fire trucks, chainsaws, hammers, more wrenches, explosions, polluted air, tire smoke, hamburgers, hot dogs, tacos, big cold drinks, members of the opposite sex, having their pictures taken and winning. A Drag Racer doesnt like: porta-cans, broken parts, starter motors, red lights, leaving late, tire shake, unplanned slippage, hot oil, unplanned fires, center line cones, putting tire marks on guard rails, shooting ducks, bicycling, parachutes that dont open, catch nets or sand pits and losing. Drag Racers live by the code set down years ago: If some is good, more is better and too much is just right. -------------------- Raven in Texas Copyright
Drag Racers DON'T like excuses from their competitors who lose: "I missed a Shift", "you left too soon", "you're cheating", "let me try again-I didn't see the light -the sun was in my eyes", " you took too long to stage and my motor got hot", "open your hood-that can't be a smallblock" Drag Racers like: First one there WINS
A doorslammer drag racer likes 3 or 4 perfect 7000+rpm powershifts in a row and going .001 seconds faster than the car has ever gone before. He HATES missed shifts and the win light in the other lane. Larry T
...and they don't like "bracket racing", dial ins, or "I'll spot you two car lengths" OR lap top computers....or computers, for that matter to tune the engine
True Words were spoken on that First Post and a couple of others <br> now I only Race to beat some Jerk that tries to beat me across the Intersection on the Right (parking Lane)
From an "Ole Bold" drag racer.................drag racing on the street is stupid, and there can never bee "Too Much"! IMHO
Someone willing to strap there ass in a nirto rocket for a few seconds of scareing yourself stupid excitement.
Hey Wing........ I heard Bicycles can now get married in California Or something like that ....you know how the BBC is......
Here's some hot rod poetry from Eric Darby: Hot Rodding is Dead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXU3N9wT3u0&feature=related Dave http://www.roadsters.com/
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