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Most embarrasing moments at the track....
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12/12/12 07:42 PM
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Portage,michigan
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I have had so many its kinda hard to pick just one, but i will anyhow.. Few years ago i was at the IHRA Northern Nationals at US131, was a huge event back then, 10 years ago. At that time my car was running 10.50 ish. Had w5 heads, and a dinky flat tappet cam in it then, and stock gas tank with 3/8 pickup and Holley Blue pump. Over the weekend we got three time trials, car was running good, and i was ready for action when they called us up for 1st round right after the night of fire show. I come around the corner to a full house and am amped up. I look over and see i have an 11.50 Firebird in the first round. Have raced the guy 3 or 4 other times and he has always gotten the best of me....but tonight i am gonna get him  We stage, and i take off after him, feeling like i had a good light( i did, 509 to his 540 something) I am reeling him him, put the car in high gear...and splat..it dies out on me as i see him driving off in the distance   Let off, get back in it, picks up, stumbles again, so i just coast out  For the first and only time ever, i showed up to the starting line with about 3/8 of a tank of gas and stupid me the pickup uncovered. I immediately the next week put a cell in the car, but the damage was done. Doug, the guy i was racing, came over to my pits and says" Hey, what happened, i thought you had me"...Me..."Doug, I ran out of friggin gas"  
69 Dart GTS A4 Silver All steel, flat factory hood, 3360race weight
418 BPE factory replacement headed stroker, 565 lift solid cam
Best so far, 10.40 @127 1/4
1.41 best 60 foot
6.60 at 103.90 1/8
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: VernMotor]
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12/12/12 10:09 PM
12/12/12 10:09 PM
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First Round .. Division One Bracket Finals back in the 80s at Maple Grove, I pulled into the burnout box.. then was backed out as something happened down track. When they started us back up I left the e brake on and the car would`t move much, Rather than put it back in park I put it in neutral and put the e brake on. I heard about that for awhile. If you race long enough you acquire quite a few " embarrassing moments".
68 Dart 410 / 904
92 D150 original owner
21 Ram 1500 Quad Cab, Big Horn , Hemi ,4x4
23 Audi Q5
16 Honda HRV
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: J_BODY]
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12/12/12 11:42 PM
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Romeo MI
MR_P_BODY
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2nd weekend after I built my car... pulled to the line and put the boot to the fast pedal and as soon as it launched the throttle cable broke... get back to the pits and fix it(enough to get through the day) and head back up the the lanes.. sitting in the burnout box they have a short hold on the track so I shut down... couple minutes later we get the fire them up sign.. do a short burnout and pull to the line and the light starts.. I hit the pedal again.. as soon as the car moves.. it quit... forgot to turn the pump on... 2 times in 1 day it didnt make it off the line... the starter said... why dont you come back when you get it fixed up... then as they were getting ready to push me off I remembered the pump.. fired up and ran it down the track..... and loaded it up.. I was too embarrassed to try again 
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: dvw]
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12/13/12 12:49 AM
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fresno ca
mikeysmopars
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Didn't happen to me but we were watching some guys on a test & tune knight and an older gentleman rolled up in his new mustang and rolled streight through the water box to the beams which he blew through and had to be backed up and staged. He got both bulbs lit and started power breaking it. As soon as both cars were staged the lights dropped and he was out of shape right away, Never lifted even when he backed it in the wall. I felt bad for him.
Founder and CEO of the Central Valley Mopar Drag Pack
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: mikeysmopars]
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12/13/12 02:38 AM
12/13/12 02:38 AM
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Janesville, WI
SpareParts
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"gettin it" with the gf in the enclosed trailer when the racer next to me wanted to borrow a distributor wrench  face in palm ya gon have dat lol
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: B3422W5]
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12/13/12 12:15 PM
12/13/12 12:15 PM
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Greenville, South Carolina
BBLM23
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I race a K-car... and I have another unfinished K-car race car...
First points race snapped a ball off the carb linkage on the launch, idled down the track.
First license pass took most of the teeth off the 8 3/4 ring gear, idled down the track.
Finally started started going rounds after a convertor swap. First time shot the next week I break an axle in the 8 3/4, idled down the track.
Walter
1969 Dart Swinger w/ARC Pump Gas 493 B1/BS 10.18 at 130mph
Racing Pro in street trim.
1981 Aries ARC 548 B1 8.88 at 147mph (footbraking)
1996 Ram 2500 V10 16.52 at 80mph
1981 Reliant 400
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: BBLM23]
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12/13/12 12:18 PM
12/13/12 12:18 PM
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Syracuse,NY
CompWedgeEngines
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Walter, Have you ever thought of dialing your car based on what it runs idling down the track? Your have a good log book of passes to compare it to....
RIP Monte Smith
Your work is a reflection of yourself, autograph it with quality.
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: CompWedgeEngines]
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12/13/12 12:21 PM
12/13/12 12:21 PM
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Greenville, South Carolina
BBLM23
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It's consistent idling because the clocks time out!
Walter
1969 Dart Swinger w/ARC Pump Gas 493 B1/BS 10.18 at 130mph
Racing Pro in street trim.
1981 Aries ARC 548 B1 8.88 at 147mph (footbraking)
1996 Ram 2500 V10 16.52 at 80mph
1981 Reliant 400
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: sixpackgut]
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12/13/12 12:27 PM
12/13/12 12:27 PM
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Deerfield, Ohio
70dusterjohn
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burnout in reverse
Me too.... or how about make the first run and then coming back to the pits, the car dies. So I get out and pull the hood, no fuel, turn the pump on get some pressure so I set the hood back on and jump in fire it up and try to make it back, oh crap I forgot the hood pins as the hood lifts and flips over the top of the car about 20ft in the air. I felt really really dumb.... Oh and I forgot to put gas in it, thats why it wouldn't run....
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: cudadoug]
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12/13/12 12:42 PM
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Joplin, Mo
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Gee, let's see...
Running out of gas on the return road and causing a back up.
Forgetting the hood pins after tech. Man those 6 bbl scoops catch alot of air!
Leaving the foam in the scoop for a run.
Going. 002 to a. 150-something light. Being so excited I was going to my first final not paying attention...11.41 on a 11.43 dial.
Going -001 red and going 10.430 on a 10.43 dial.
Forgetting to put the shifter in park and watching your call roll backwards off the trailer after getting out.
I've done that last on your list too.
Back in the 80's I got to final. We both stage. I'm waiting on the tree to come down. At some point the thought goes through my mind I'm late. So I just left. I got the big red eye. What a DA I was.
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: dustergirl340]
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12/13/12 01:23 PM
12/13/12 01:23 PM
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Renton Washington
Triple Threat
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Semi finals, Thanksgiving Bracket nationals at Vegas last season. Whole load of family and friends are back home watching the live stream of the race. Ran out of gas on the starting line ....... other guy goes -.001  I broke the beam, got pushed off the starting line, borrowed some gas for the final and won the race!  .00X to his .300, lift way early and coast out the back, go .001 under taking a train length. .00X to his .100, Give it back by .0004
-Dustin
67 Dart, 9 second, 392" G3 Hemi
68 Barracuda 340 F/SA
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: cudadoug]
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12/13/12 01:37 PM
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"Forgetting the hood pins after tech. Man those 6 bbl scoops catch alot of air!" Best I've seen was a 69rr 6pak hood go about 100 ft in the air. To accomplish that I think the angle of the car has to be just right, to keep it in place till after the 330 mark
8..603 156 mph best, 2905 lbs 549, indy 572-13, alky
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: B3422W5]
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12/13/12 02:08 PM
12/13/12 02:08 PM
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SE VA
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Am I the only one to forget put the cap back on the fuel cell? Coming out of the burnout box and race gas is pouring out of the trunk, easy fix but cost the race.
JiK
1969 Orig Hemi Super Bee Post 4 spd Red on Red (Sold sadly)
1970 Cuda Drag car 500" B1/BS 8.63 @ 155 mph
1970 Challenger SE 383 4 bbl A/C PB PS Leather
1971 Orig 440+6 Cuda 4 spd Shaker In-Violet
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: CompWedgeEngines]
#1350519
12/13/12 02:41 PM
12/13/12 02:41 PM
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Las Vegas
Al_Alguire
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Well lets see. I have traveled 1100 miles and forgot to turn the air bottle on...Or this one, when we had the Belvedere it had a stock gas tank. Left the fuel cap off once and got chased down by the firetruck all the way through the shut down area and return road. nothing exctiting thats about it for me.
"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."
"It's never wrong to do the right thing"
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: sam64]
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12/13/12 03:56 PM
12/13/12 03:56 PM
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Marysville, O-H-I-O
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Went to hit 4th, which should be a quick and easy straight back pull on the shifter, but after a night of beating on it, my shifter handle and adapter piece I made to fit the B-body pistol grip into the Dakota, had come a tad loose, so the handle was sliding on the shifter some.
Instead of 4th, I put it in 2nd, at about 75mph. skidded the tires a good 20-30 feet, RPM through the roof. coasted out the back end. down the return road, and straight for the gate. (it was getting late anyway, and the track was getting slick)
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: mikeysmopars]
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12/13/12 04:03 PM
12/13/12 04:03 PM
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Mooresburg, Tn
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At a little track in Lawrenceburg, Tn (old U.S.43) about 1985, I do a burn out across the start line (OK to do at this short track), back up and stage carefully. The starter taps on the window and motions me to back up. Thats when I realized that I had staged with the back tires. I had a red helment on and my face matched it for a while.
Just about as bad, maybe worse, 2010 at Bristol, I started running two classes, 1/8 mile Pro and 1/4 mile Sportsman, same car/same day. First day I did this, I went to the finals in both classes (won 1/4 mile, red light away 1/8 mile). The next week I'm rollin' along through the rounds again and about rd 4 of the 1/4 mile race, I draw someone thats way quicker than me (me 10.90, him 9.90). Up until now all of my 1/4 mile races have been against slower or equal cars (everything either beside me or in front of me). I get near the 1/8 mile mark and look back, this guy is WAY behind and ain't gonna get there. I start whomp, whomp, whomp and my win light doesn't come on, then he BLOWS by me and his win light doesn't come either. At least for about 3 seconds, THEN his light comes on. I'm like, What the ???. All of a sudden, I realize what I did. The butt chewing I got that day didn't come anywhere close to the one I got about 3 weeks later, when I did it again. The 80 mile trip home that day seemed more like 180 miles.
At least I've never ran out of fuel on the track. Yet.
Brian Dunnigan
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: '72CudaRacer]
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12/13/12 04:08 PM
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Casco, MI
Savoy1964
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Was at Tri-State track, this was before I installed the fuel cell, stock tank and forgot to twist the fuel cap and dumped a couple gallons of race fuel at the starting line and down the track. Found the cap behind the plate after the ticket guy says i was dropping fluid.
2003 Dodge 3500 Diesel
1964 Plymouth Savoy White 2dr sdn. 512 stroked, Dominator, New Best 9.75 @ 138.50mph
2019 Challenger Scat Pack 1320 White Knuckle-K&N Cold air filter, Billit Oil catch can, drag radials stock 11.911 @ 114mph
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: B3422W5]
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12/13/12 06:28 PM
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Palindrome Cuda
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Yep, the gas deal. I am headed to the staging lanes to tech. My son says "we better put in some gas we don"t have enough to make a full pass" and I said " " I'm just going to tech and right back" got stuck in the lanes and had to make the pass. I remembered his words just as I crossed the traps as I coasted to the return road. I had to call him to bring the gas,I told him he was wrong that I did make it to the traps. He still gives me the razz about that. He drove the car back to the pits,made me walk. I told his mother,no help there !!! Fun times.
Bob George Racing sponsored '67 'cuda
9.96 @ 131mph
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: ChrisJohnston669]
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12/14/12 12:02 AM
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Back in the early 80's I was changing the engine one night, thrashing to get it together so I could race the next day. I mounted but forgot to bolt down the grill of my 67' GTX. Made a few passes until it fell off at the starting line. I felt like a total tool and went home.
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: roadhazard]
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12/14/12 12:30 AM
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SoCal
Brian Hafliger
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Back in the early 90's, I used to run my 69 Charger with a 440 at Carlsbad raceway. Last time I went with the old engine, it was really running great...launched like always, shifted into second and BOOM! I was in such shock that I just coasted allllll the way to the end of the track. Got out, and recieved a huge a$$ chewing by the guy on the tow quad. I was like, WTF dude...then I saw my 1/4 mile trail of Coolant!! Ohhhhhh $hit...my bad. I must have looked really sick, because after he reamed me, he looked at my car, and said "now next time you blow your $hit up, pull over and stop...and I'm sorry about your loss". I was so stunned, even after he towed me back, and almost everyone in the pits helped to push the car back on the trailer I remember telling my dad the jerk that towed me back just chewed my butt left and right and I was really mad at him for being so inconsiderate because I just lost my prized possession! Then my Dad told me that the whole time I was in the pits the track was shut down because of my neglegance to pull over and stop. As I looked around in the pits, I could see lost of glaring eyes looking my way...so we left promptly! Was really embarrasing for me, and I'm sure for my Dad...love you dad!! Ha ha
Brian Hafliger
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: Brian Hafliger]
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12/14/12 12:59 AM
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St Paul MN
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First time down the track with my car, forgot to latch the trunk. It comes up fast when you hit the brakes hard. Then next time at the track, I decide to remove the air cleaner, hoping to go quicker. What I forgot was the gasket under the air cleaner. Burn out sucks the gasket into carb, and jams in the throttle blades. 3500+ rpm idle,shut it down and got pushed out, DUH! Suprised I stuck with it after those two first outings 
Chris Schwartz
73 Swinger 340 12.451 @ 108.78
73 Gold Duster, needs a plan.
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: 73swinger]
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12/14/12 10:03 AM
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Then next time at the track, I decide to remove the air cleaner, hoping to go quicker. What I forgot was the gasket under the air cleaner.
I did that on my Dakota, doing testing to see if my air cleaner was creating any restriction in my intake path (used a datalogger to record Manifold pressure with Throttle Position. figured if my air filter was creating a restriction, my MAPs would indicate a vacuum in the manifold.
anyway, on the testing with the air cleaner off, I forgot the gasket as well! only I was on the street!
during the WOT runs out in the sticks, nothing went wrong. when did the gasket suck into the TB blades? yea, in town. with traffic. At least I hadn't gone WOT in town, and it only jammed at about 3/8 throttle, so I quickly stepped on the clutch, let the RPM climb, and it was also "idling" at about 3600 rpm. pulled over, shut it off, popped the hood and saw what happened. 
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: 70Cuda383]
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12/14/12 10:11 AM
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Lenox Iowa
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Ah, I've posted this before on this forum. I don't drag race, I truck pull a 4x4 truck. I hooked to the sled one night and left the line, thought it was odd the shift light came on, but it was running great. I spun out at the big end with the shift light on. The crowd looked a little puzzled and was told that only the back tires spun.......I forgot to shift it into 4wd.....I was disgusted, I can't remember if I got 2nd or 3rd place. I would have won if I was in 4wd.......
Michael
93 W250 CTD getrag, Bosch 185 injectors, AFE air filter. Trailer puller, daily driver,
90 W250 CTD 727 with smokin 5" stacks. Off road truck
75 Dodge W200 440 4spd 4x4 locked front and rear, twin disc clutch, E85. Pulling truck
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: gregsdart]
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12/16/12 12:27 AM
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Forgot the hood pins twice, timed out once, fogot about the extra 6 gallons of fuel and tool bag in the trunk once, but the worst was in the final's at Monster Mopar Weekend when my partner opened up the door and said "Whatever you do don't red light" After nailing the tree round after round to get there I cut like a .400 light on a sportsmans tree in the final round....We had words afterwards. lol
Jerry Williams.
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: hemidup]
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12/16/12 12:39 AM
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I'm embarrased bout every 3rd light, but one time at pacemakers, did a burnout a made a hard stop just before the line then a missing and melted flashlight went sliding up the track about 15ft. I was wondering where that flashlight had gone
66 Belvedere Vert, 4 Speed/Jerico, slowly, very slowly, getting faster - NA LD Wedge New New Best: 10.56 @129 68 B'cuda 4 gear Jerico - Another New Best of 9.86 & Trying to slow up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4jDLKwd9Gs
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: hemidup]
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12/16/12 12:49 AM
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When you have raced for 35+ years there are lots of these embarrassing moments so I'll go with my last one that happened this year in the box class. I was on a roll hitting the tree pretty good all night and made it to the final. The other driver asked if I wanted to split the money in the final with an extra 50 dollars going to the winner. I didn't really want to but finally agreed. Rule number one when using a box. REMOVE all numbers from the round before. In the semi's I raced a car 2 seconds slower than me and in the final I had a car 1 second faster. He got one heck of a head start and needless to say took the win. I still made out pretty good but he was standing in the winners circle with the trophy.
1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
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422 Indy headed small block
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Livin and lovin life one day at a time
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: pittsburghracer]
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12/16/12 01:16 AM
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My best happened when I was about 19....my car is a 4-speed and I didn't have a rev limiter so I bought a Mallory tach with built in rev limiter (had a knob you twist to set the rpm at which it cuts out the motor)...I installed it and drove it on the street for a few weeks and one day as I'm cruising down the highway I look at the tach and it's reading double what it should be  ....after about 1 mile it goes back to reading normal and doesn't act up again....  So, about a month later I decide to take my car to the track and run it for the first time with my fairly new 438" 383....On my first pass I stage, bring the motor up to about 3K, dump the clutch and it goes about 5 feet and the engine starts cutting out and the whole car starts shaking like crazy!!! Rearview mirror is bouncing around....glovebox opens...I look at the tach and it shows 6K but I know the motor isn't that high....I remember that day when it read double and so I reach up and crank the knob all the way to the right to raise the rpm limit so it'll stop cutting out and I finish the run with a mid 13 second pass.... Imagine being WOT with a stick car, clutch pedal out and against the chip at 3,000rpm....I was freaked out!!!!! When I got home I pulled the tach off the car and threw it in the trash and haven't had a tach in a car ever since....
If you can't handle the truth, you're living a lie.......
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Re: Most embarrasing moments at the track....
[Re: emarine01]
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12/29/12 01:06 AM
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Oakville, Wa
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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]
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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]
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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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Wife says Was you just trying to see fast it go ? 
Not me, I'm smarter than that, now 
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 
