You have GOT to get you one of these!!...

These are a BLAST to drive!...After 2 seasons of wrenchin' on this thing, fatboy was ready for some seat time...

Only problem was I hadn't been on a track for over 25 years...
I was really hopin' not to make a fool of myself(what's new?)...

didn't do bad...12.87 at 104mph right off'n the trailer. Backed it up with a 12.89 at104mph....but the car needed some tunin'.

...so we tuned her real good and Kenny ran a best of 12.43 at 107!...a new Ramrods record!

The Hornets were right there too...12.42 at 105mph... (who cares?)

 

Me and Kenny changin' jets on them '97's...

note to self...why is Mr.Mac takin' a pic of my backside?...

 

where did you get your chassis from, I want to do one of those down the road some year, That looks like sooo much fun!

 

I don't have a clue what the Hornets were thinkin' with this monstrocity...a fire-breathin' Hornet?

 

Damn Larry, you're having way too much fun, wipe that smirk off your face!! When is the HAMB drags anyway? I may have to schlepp on out and enjoy the scents and sounds of drag racing.

 

you are aerodynamic
in and out of the car

race cars get faster as they get lighter
have someone hold your wallet

remove slow moving vehicle sign from behind drivers seat!
i also see a hammer at the top of the tool box
old timey not old school

 

We made it ourselves. We got some talented people on our team. You could build this too.

 

mAN THE NEXT CHASSIS I DO WILL HAVE TO BE WIDE LIKE THAT FOR A FAT BOY I GUESS............ you look good in that instead of on the jets all the time............sam

 

Mike...you can't wipe that grin off with a crowbar...

Dog...that sign is what's keepin' my head inside the car when it launches...

Sam...yeah, I was a snug fit in her!..

Good news is that my 2nd race, I beat a newer Mustang heads up!

 

ok now
did it go straight?
feel ok at the top end
trap rpm?
was this wfo?
any leaks now?
all mustangs would be newer than your rail....
where the video /

 

Carry on then!!

 

yes...yes...5800...yes...no... ...film at eleven...

and I like your new signature...who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

 

just for you you have stress enough..

the guido brothers are mean sumbitches

but my dog does not bark and eats all the evidence

 

note to self...remove Guido Brothers from speed-dial...

 

bttt...

 

oh man, you are one lucky sumanahbitch!!!

first the speedway, then the coupe lives, and now this!!!

if'n a feller was to be sportin a mile wide shit eatin grin, i'd say it'd be you my friend. AWESOME

 

they got a drag strip in Tulsa?

 

...with indoor plumbin' outhouses too...

hell, they're even talkin' 'bout plowin' a couple of fields to make one'a them there airyoplane landin' strip places...

 

Right on, that looks like so much fun!

 

Dang Larry those are damn respectable times and if you was bracket racing you be a killer. Wished i'd been there to see that smile on your face.

BTW i have a comment about the Fat Boy cage... If i were to biuld one for me then it would catch about the same resistance as a sheet of plywood. Hehehehehehe

CONGRATS AGAIN DUDE.

Oh YEA ... Note to self ...Don't un-door esty-mate Ol'3W

 

thats funny stuff larry!!! congrats on your all thats goin on right now...havin a good month there brudder!!

 

Thanks guys...we're just tryin' to generate more interest in these little cars. They really are a ton of fun. We need more teams!

 

Those pictures make me homesick for Tulsa. Started racing in '74. Last time I raced there was August 16, 1980, the Saturday before I got married and moved to St. Louis.

Raced a 66 Chevy with a 396, 70 GTX with 440 and 69 Roadrunner with a 383.

Eat some Coneys for me, and maybe a Bill's Jumbo burger.

 

mmm, bills jumbo burgers!

 

The Tulsa dragstrip is actually important in dragracing history. In 1972, Don Garlits formed the Professional Racers Association, and in a protest against the low purses at NHRA events, joined the AHRA (Tulsa was an AHRA track at the time) to schedule a major race the same weekend (Labor Day) as the NHRA's U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis.
Garlits, Prudhomme, McEwen, Jenkins, and all the other big names at the time showed up in Tulsa instead of Indy, and Garlits made his point: the NHRA started to pay dragracers what they're worth.

I was there, and it was one fun weekend, with people from all over the country having a great time in the Oklahoma heat! I had just gotten my driver's license a week before, and my first car date was to take my girlfriend to this race.

Google Tulsa Dragracing Garlits 1972 and you'll find lots of info on it.

 

I was there got took out in the first roundby John Weibe buy at least we qualified

 

Good job, Larry. You're makin' us Flathead guys proud!

 

Hi Larry!

CONGRATS!!!!!

I actually started mocking one up this weekend......didn't get very far.
Most of the parts I'm using were 'freebies'......pics to come in the following weeks......

 

Too Cool Larry!!!!!

 

well get your butt movin' cause we need alot more of these than what we got now...