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Atco Honda Day Sold Out ! #975553
04/18/11 08:35 AM
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I read on another Forum that this event sold out and people were climbing the fence to get in. I don't understand the interest in these cars but at least the fans have some enthusiasm. Looking through the Maple Grove Schedule I noticed a new event. Latin American Drag Fest. [Edited by Moparts - Family Friendly Site - Keep it clean] is this? What brand cars do the Latin Americans build? I think I am going to call Maple Grove and ask them if we can have a Redneck Cracker day. This is the first time I've seen a car event where it was about who attends and not about the type of vehicle the fans attending have in common?

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i can tell you that way back in the early 80's
there was an import scene at ATCO
alot of hispanic/ puerto ricans were heavy into Mazda wankle motors..the little B210 cars..
(look like a corolla but that is an insult like calling a duster... a nova")
anyway..they are still die hard and I think Atco has the biggest import deal going..or did for many yrs..
I rememeber seeing low 10 second wankle motors manually shifted by hand...carry the wheels through 3 gears...the Carbs where as big as the motor..
miss a shift and the pass was over...
but hit all the gears and mid 10's
some VW's would show up and an occassional porsche
i watched a 427 Vette (very warm street car) get smoked by a VW beetle..by 8 car lengths..
those import people are serious..and so are their women..

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Re: Atco Honda Day Sold Out ! [Re: cheapstreetdustr] #975555
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When's Redneck Cracker day????

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To sum up your question, it seems your out of touch with the reality of our current mainstream society. And im the SAME way!...But I understand it but that dont mean im into it or like it.

A few years ago I was asked by a friend to move there new car/suv...Im used to a old mopar auto on the floor or the col. and a wiper and a heater switch....I almost broke the col. shifter off as it didnt move in the old mopar fashion.

Hell I had my new powerstroke truck and after a year of not liking the wheel position a friend reached in and said, just adjust the dam thing....




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I read on another Forum that this event sold out and people were climbing the fence to get in. I don't understand the interest in these cars but at least the fans have some enthusiasm. Looking through the Maple Grove Schedule I noticed a new event. Latin American Drag Fest. [Edited by Moparts - Family Friendly Site - Keep it clean] is this? What brand cars do the Latin Americans build? I think I am going to call Maple Grove and ask them if we can have a Redneck Cracker day. This is the first time I've seen a car event where it was about who attends and not about the type of vehicle the fans attending have in common?



Re: Atco Honda Day Sold Out ! [Re: quick77rt ] #975557
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Atco has a direct relationship with the Aruba Dragstrip and they hold events there.

it's still drag racing Honda ,Rotary whatever your flavor

These events have cars worth watching if you can take the noise.

there are some very bad rotary cars these are worth watching. the first guy can drive his butt off here you can see how quick he learns in a new car
http://www.youtube.com/user/hemifred?feature=mhum#p/f/15/Szk2siJHJ7o

this one maybe loud but it's ac very impressive
car

http://www.youtube.com/user/hemifred?feature=mhum#p/f/14/f6IC5lPw7II


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Re: Atco Honda Day Sold Out ! [Re: HEMIFRED] #975558
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I have allot of friends nda 7second range with their
Imports. Tech in them cars is ridiculous, don't be scared.
My close friend down here in florida is V.P. of the
NSCRA (National Sport Compact Racing Assoc). I go n
help out at these events when I can, n not to mention
the women that show up, its like a party, theirs a D.J.,
a bathing suit contest, and the pay outs. My cousins company,
is about to sponser a racing series threw the beverage
company he works for. Don't hate someone that keeps
the sport going, its racing ($$$),
you should be glad, they sold out, keeps the track from shutting down.
In closing thanks to them I'm making my car Turbo next
month, catching up to what they have been telling me
for the last 20 years, efi, turbo, computer, its a
part of the times.
LET me know when its redneck day, I'll come by, as
long as its Drag Racing related
I also was a import "HATER"

Re: Atco Honda Day Sold Out ! [Re: B1KILLER] #975559
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Maybe I shouldn't have ran my post together like it did. I have no problem with imports or Latin Americans. I commend the import guys for their progress. I wish we could get interest like they have. But I do have a problem with having a special day for any type of people. By doing that they are acting like our government. We should come together and enjoy our common interests more and people would relize that most people no matter what their ethnic back ground have more in common than they do differences. I don't like segregation and I also hate forced intergration. We need to get back to the days where there weren't any special class of Americans. We were all just Americans.

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Uh, if there was an all WHITE CRACKER REDNECK day at the track it would make national news and we'd all be labeled racists. Just like Spanish day parades and such. Somehow, it's okay for others and they aren't labeled anything.

Rotary engines...

Re: Atco Honda Day Sold Out ! [Re: pinkduster] #975562
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Although I do have alot of respect for the crowd that comes to these events that actually have a car that runs, I don't like the scene that follows it. Loud weedeater sounding hondas, lambo doors, huge body kits, rap music.....its all kindof stupid if you ask me. I also have never figured out the want to dump $10k plus in a fwd car that is never going to hook it. A local guy had a 430whp civic and I can't count how many times it came to the track and broke the trans or just blew the tires off, he now has sold it and has a nice turbo mustang. These events just seem to attract a too young and dumb crowd O btw it's not like I'm 50yrs old and saying this either...I'm 23 lol

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I have allot of friends nda 7second range with their
Imports. Tech in them cars is ridiculous, don't be scared.
My close friend down here in florida is V.P. of the
NSCRA (National Sport Compact Racing Assoc). I go n
help out at these events when I can, n not to mention
the women that show up, its like a party, theirs a D.J.,
a bathing suit contest, and the pay outs. My cousins company,
is about to sponser a racing series threw the beverage
company he works for. Don't hate someone that keeps
the sport going, its racing ($$$),
you should be glad, they sold out, keeps the track from shutting down.
In closing thanks to them I'm making my car Turbo next
month, catching up to what they have been telling me
for the last 20 years, efi, turbo, computer, its a
part of the times.
LET me know when its redneck day, I'll come by, as
long as its Drag Racing related
I also was a import "HATER"




Those gigs are a big party and plenty of hot sweetys...
it definitely looks like a fun time(till its over
then they seem to go dumb and tear up stuff)

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and at Import shows they have plenty of these





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have a couple of friends with fast running imports i.e. low 11's and much faster. As much as I respect them for what they do, i still don't like imports...i mean they can't even hook, their e/t mph outcomes always make me laugh, and most all of the import guys I know talk way too much smack and think that a civic with a fartpipe is the fastest car in the world. Can't tell you how many times I've had guys tell me they will own my car, when all they eve know about my car is that its green

I don't however mind their girls that hang around Just wish they would gravitate towards the real cars (muscle mopars!) instead of the rice burners (Although I can't complain since I have a very attractive girlfriend who LOVES my car). Me and a couple buddy's drive through a rice meet every wednesday night with lots of hotties- a couple of burnouts and revs usually do the trick to get the girls attention and piss off the boyfriends...had one ask me "can you do it again" and the boyfriend was furious at her LOL

Im 21 by the way

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and at Import shows they have plenty of these








Those are always helpful.

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and at Import shows they have plenty of these








Those are always helpful.




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Re: Atco Honda Day Sold Out ! [Re: DodgeCharger] #975569
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We need to get back to the days where there weren't any special class of Americans. We were all just Americans.




That's a pretty thoughtless statement so remind me..how old are you? I still remember the riots in the 60's over civil rights. Real Americans(indians) were put on reservations over a hundred years ago and are still there. Never in America's history have we been "just Americans".

I'm proud of my Irish/German/American Indian, North/South heritage. So who's side should I take? Common sense tells me, we need to stop searching for ways to divide us.

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I read on another Forum that this event sold out and people were climbing the fence to get in. I don't understand the interest in these cars but at least the fans have some enthusiasm. Looking through the Maple Grove Schedule I noticed a new event. Latin American Drag Fest. [Edited by Moparts - Family Friendly Site - Keep it clean] is this? What brand cars do the Latin Americans build? I think I am going to call Maple Grove and ask them if we can have a Redneck Cracker day. This is the first time I've seen a car event where it was about who attends and not about the type of vehicle the fans attending have in common?




I'd go , but I would have to wear a windbreaker with I.N.S. in big letters on the back of it just to see what happens

Re: Atco Honda Day Sold Out ! [Re: 52savoy] #975571
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We need to get back to the days where there weren't any special class of Americans. We were all just Americans.




That's a pretty thoughtless statement so remind me..how old are you? I still remember the riots in the 60's over civil rights. Real Americans(indians) were put on reservations over a hundred years ago and are still there. Never in America's history have we been "just Americans".

I'm proud of my Irish/German/American Indian, North/South heritage. So who's side should I take? Common sense tells me, we need to stop searching for ways to divide us.




I don't know where you are comming from with "Who's side should I take"? That is my point.
People are People. Why judge anyone just because of where they came from? I treat everyone the same when I first meet them.After that I treat them with the respect or disrespect that they deserve based on their own merits.
The time I was refering to was in my youth. The 70's and 80's.This was a great time to live in America. Then we turned the corner.

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I'm just commenting on what I read..According to your own words, your looking at life only through your eyes. So that gives you a very narrow view.

I also don't see the point in bringing such a messy subject up anyways. Drag racing is for everyone not just Bubba's(crackers)

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