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It was a great day. A great show was put on by some hard-charging racers, and I must say the Speed Chanel crew lays out a great day! The B.C. Contingient stood out with some of the nicest cars on the property, including some of our own moparts guys. It was nice talking with Richard, and sorry, Richard, for the drool on the fender..... his 6-pak Challenger is a masterpiece! Dustin Made a showing in the Burnout Contest with his Dart. And if Anybody here knows the crew that campaigns the "Victoria" Super Stock Hemi Barracuda, Tell him thanks for coming down! Even my Chevy buddy agreed that this car was the nicest piece of iron on the property. A few mopars made the 32-car field, and a local Dart made it to the Semi-Finals, before losing to an 18 y.o. kid in a wheelstanding Corvette that, as much as I hate to admit it, was THE SHOW all day, carrying WAY high wheelstands through the 60 ft. markers time & time again. The final pitted two Chebbies, but both were wheelstanding show-stoppers, with a nice '71 Chevelle meeting up with the Vette in the final. Minimal oil-downs, great racing, great day..... The Northwest racers did themselves proud on this day.

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!!





The guy in the SS Cuda is Peter Wille,he owns and runs Victoria Automatic,and Island Convertors, though ironically he races mostly stick cars. He has some beautiful cars. I used to watch him run at Western Speedway in Victoria in the 80's, he used to pound through gears in his gorgeous black 70 Hemi Cuda like nobody could.

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.