Brian drove into the collective consciousness of Mopar guys everywhere when he was doing fire burnouts in his S/FX altered wheel base Mr. Norm's 65 Dodge. He showed up at Drag Week with a stunning orange and creme 31 Chrysler CM6 Coupe in 2013 with an early Hemi, with I believe, six strombergs and a stick. In 2014 it had a blower. After two DNFs he came back with his high school car in 2015, a low thirteen second 66 Chevelle, and got his first completed Drag Week. Then came the news that the orange Coupe had suffered a bad crash.
He rebuilt the Coupe in Green, with the outlandish plan of having a street driven AA/FA! Nitro on the track and pump fuel on the drives. His first attempt on day 1 came to a halt when the Bruno-drive on his Lenco transmission broke after the first burnout. He was once again saddled with a DNF, but he didn't give up. He made a successful half pass at Indy, and was trying to switch the car over and make at least one drive. Jim (Squirrel) had decided to hang around in the hopes of getting some road pictures of his A/FX Blown Chevy II cruising with a AA/FA, and Elana from RoadKill stuck around to document it.
When it became clear that Brian wasn't going to get the Coupe rolling down the road, we became Elana and Jim's back-up plan!
Elana did a quick blog on RoadKill.com about Dale's incident in the pits, along with one picture of the damage. HotRod.com shared it, guys shared it to the Drag Weekers page on facebook, next thing we knew it was viral. The guy who hit him asked Dale to please post that they had an agreement because he was getting flamed all over social media!
Jim came over and asked if we were about to leave, and decided he would hang out and drive with us for a while. He was about to find out that the stories of our woes were not exaggerations!
"Livin' in a powder keg and givin' off sparks"
4 Street cars, 5 Race engines
