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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: emarine01]
#1350554
12/29/12 01:06 AM
12/29/12 01:06 AM
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Joined: May 2011
Posts: 625
Oakville, Wa
HOTMOPR
mopar
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mopar
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 625
Oakville, Wa
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made the show on pinks all out. I was nervous as hell the TV cameras were rolling. I Did my burn out and totally forgot my routine. I normally do the burnout roll into the first light. Shift to neutral clean it out and stage. This time I went straight to the light waited for the other guy and staged. When I launched the car made a terrible sound as I realized I was in 3rd gear with a 200 shot on a full throttle switch. Needless to say that tranny came out. Rich and Ken got a chuckle out of it though..
67 Barracuda, 470" B, Glide, FuelTech FT600, Precision, Ptc, QA1, Calvert, Smith racecraft, Afco, Dana 60. 275 radials
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: HOTMOPR]
#1350555
12/29/12 01:41 AM
12/29/12 01:41 AM
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Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 6,257
gulfport, ms, west mi
rowin4
master
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master
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 6,257
gulfport, ms, west mi
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A number of years ago when I got back into racing the car had not seen the track for twenty years, most of those the car set outside. The first run was a wheels up run down the track and was uneventful , engine ran perfect, trans shifted OK and even the brakes worked. Noticed as I was coming back on the return road that no cars were coming down the track, the starting line crew was sweeping up all the rust that fell off when I dumped the clutch.  
it's ok to butt heads, just don't do it with a butthead
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: rowin4]
#1350556
12/29/12 02:02 AM
12/29/12 02:02 AM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 454
Ashville, Manitoba, Canada
superbeeman69
super street
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super street
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 454
Ashville, Manitoba, Canada
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I had just bought my Dak RT I just sold so summer 04. Local track and I'm as green as the grass. All these 9/10sec rides are going around the burnout box and backing into it. Seems like the right thing to do right? SO, I follow suit like a big shot, smokes billowing, hit OD and lift of the break....still in reverse. Good thing we don't have a wall behind the track...just a good 40 FT to the staging lanes. So thankful no one was behind me waiting to stage. When I staged, my boss who still runs the tree, kindly told me to roll up my windows. Both of them.
Fast forward to summer 09, fresh 347/4speed in my friends 79 cobra. 10.80s NA fast. Sometimes i drive but hes a better stick wrangler. Launches hard like always, hits second and my buddy idles back to the pits. WTF? He was pissed as he didn't even take his slip. So I follow back to the trailer and he gets out of the car and pitches his shifter handle about 50 ft....we had threw the new clutch in the night before, had a case of CANADIAN beer and one of us just put the shifter bolts on finger tight. After a few passes, they had rattled loose and off came the handle.
1970 FM3 Coronet 440, 1971 FJ6 Dude D100
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It took an hour and a very large excavator to dig me out, It did not go over so well with the local crowd, they consumed a lot of beer in that hour and kept yelling ... let the retarded fella try again.... It just wasn't my best showing 
