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Final note: The greatest driving job I have ever seen was laid down buy a guy in a 9-second Willy's early in the day. He hit a slick spot and found himself staring at suddenly out of shape at about 1000 feet, doing nearly 120! Sideways left, staring at the near lane barrier..... pitched back the other way and avoided contact, only to find himself quickly in the other lane looking directly at the opposite barrier, only to successfully negotiate that disaster as well. How he drove it out the end without a scratch, I will never know. But hats off to that guy!!

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The Willys wild ride you spoke of, was it orange? If it was I was in the other lane when he lost it and ended up in my lane.

We had an absolute BLAST at Pinks,though I didn't have the best of luck I would do it again in a heartbeat. My first pass on Friday was good, I was expecting a 10.32 and it ran a 10.324.Second pass the tree comes down so fast I didn't quite get it to WOT before I let go of the button and it ran a 10.41, a bit of a slip up but not serious. Saturday on my first pass when they pointed to me to go into the waterbox, I put it into gear and the heavy spring on my shifter broke.It mostly holds the handle from flopping around or so I thought. I did my burnout and was happy to get all three gears. I had a good launch but it didn't shift into 3rd the first time I hit it. I knew right then I was sunk. I ran a 10.56...I went to town and bought a new shifter (it was the oldest part on my car!)got back and thrashed to get it all in and just barely made it into the end of my class. I ran a 10.36 on my second pass on Saturday.

The group they picked were right in my bracket,(10.20-10.40ish) if I could have run between a 10.32 and a 10.36 on the pass where I broke my shifter (it predicted a 10.34)I think I would have had a good chance of getting in.

It was an awesome day though,and there were so many people!It blows me away to see someone finally figured out how to fill the stands with people to watch a race with relatively slow cars! 10.40 cars! and it was exciting!Hats off to the Speed Network and the Pinks All out crew!!! Can't wait for the next one.

I'm going back to Pacific Raceways this weekend for the Pacific Sportsman Nationals.

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hey thats me on the right edge! I'm famous! LOL.

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We were gonna come over and have a beer with ya but you know how things were. Man did we spend alot of time talking to people. My voice was actually starting to go a little by Saturday afternoon. Beer helped in keeping my throat moist. Man I love how Dirt cheap beer is down there.

Don.

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I watched it a hundred times, when the Willy's comes into the picture, you can just barely see my front end drop. I was on the rev limiter because it wouldn't shift so I gave the gas pedal a pump and at that split second it shifted and I accelerated away! I had no idea he was having trouble until I got back to the pits and my crew told me.

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I watched it a hundred times, when the Willy's comes into the picture, you can just barely see my front end drop. I was on the rev limiter because it wouldn't shift so I gave the gas pedal a pump and at that split second it shifted and I accelerated away! I had no idea he was having trouble until I got back to the pits and my crew told me.

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superwrench; I HATE you!!!

All weekend long I had to hear from the wife about how gorgeous that pink car was, why can't I build one that nice, that's the most beautiful Mopar she's ever seen, blah...blah...blah. You're killin me!!!

Seriously, nice ride!

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Thanks.....now get this.....

We're sitting back at the pits after the 2nd run on Saturday just waiting for the anouncement for the 32 car field, and two soon-to-be pit woofies come strolling by and ask if they can have their picture taken beside my Pink Pig.
So...they get their pic, and then they decide it would be a great idea if they'd get me to autograph their..... .. well..you know...!!
You shoulda seen and heard my wife....she asked me just exactly how big my head was after that !!!!
Yeah....I was sorta astounded with the comments on the car.....I don't even consider it as nice as most people see it, but I guess it must be OK.
It's nowhere near as nice as it was before I decided to go racing with it.

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I watched it a hundred times, when the Willy's comes into the picture, you can just barely see my front end drop. I was on the rev limiter because it wouldn't shift so I gave the gas pedal a pump and at that split second it shifted and I accelerated away! I had no idea he was having trouble until I got back to the pits and my crew told me.

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Is video up somewhere?

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Does anyone know about how long they usually take editing before it gets onto TV? A month?

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