Boone asked me to help him with his fuel transfer. We had bought 15 gallons of 110 octane Rockett brand gas at Bowling Green with the plan of using it on the track for the whole trip. Boone took a line loose, drained all the pump fuel into another jug, then we dumped in some of the race gas. He had already uncapped the headers, and Dale had pulled the timing back into it.
He headed for the lanes, and Dale jumped into the Gremlin to go up for his initial hit as well.
"No hood?" I questioned him.
"Nope", he smiled, "Going to try it without this time!"

Boone soft soled it off the starting line, but after that it seemed to go much straighter than it did at Bowling Green, and the scoreboard showed 11:58-116.3.
Dale pulled in a few minutes later, and when the transbrake let go, the rear bucked hard once, and it smoke the tires for about 60ft., and went 11.90-118. As soon as he hit the stripe, Brian Lohnes announced that we had an hour and fifteen minutes left, and the track would be shut down, so we were up against yet another deadline!

Boone was happy to be one and done, and decided to take this time to get the cam break in oil out of the engine, and get ready to roll. The oppressive heat, the time deadline, and trying to get a decent hit out of each car made our visit to Indy feel more like work than fun.