Just turned 103 and I still love it ....oh wait...I'm 48(don't look a day over 25) and I feel 103... .....Need more of these pics before I quit too. I'm on a real bad streak...probably be 60 before I win another race anyway.

Ran mid 9's on my 69th Birthday and went 4 rounds. Fried a headgasket and it took me twice as long to pull the heads than 10 yrs ago. Which way do these hedders go?? Keeps me out of the grave.

Racing is still fun at 72. Working on the car with my broken body is not. I go out once or twice a year just to feel the G's. Probably will quit in the next year. Aging is not for sissies! With so little seat time, cuting a lite is just luck. No substitute for seat time!!!

Here's me last year.

I’m 61. This year is the first year I have not been to the track a least 2 times per week for the past 8 years. I raced when I was 16 through about 18 years old then got married and had kids and no $ for racing. After the kids moved out, the wife passed, I picked it back up again and love it. I will race as long as the $ and body holds out. For me, switching to a dragster has made working on the car a lot easier.

A broken engine and lack of funds to fix it held me back this season. I hope to be back and racing the weekly points races at Pittsburgh Raceway Park in 2014..

I turned 70 this past August and still love drag racing, primarily due to the people that we race with and the real friends that we have made! It takes you a lot longer to load the trailer and do most things to the car, however, my son Kevin has stepped up and does just about everything that I need done.
I hope to continue to race as long as I can, hopefully get a good light now and then and try to do everything right like my "Crew Chief" and loving wife told me to do before she passed this last July from pancreatic cancer.
It was her orders that I continue to race, so that is what I will attempt to do in her memory! HEMI JOE - Endangered Species Racing

I ran into a bracket racer at Wodburn two years ago that had bought a motor from one of my engine customers in SO CA that I built ten or more years ago, that motor was a 426 Street wedge with a bunch of problems, I treid to talk the original customer into building a better motor but he wanted that block and heads with a stroker crank in it Long story short the new guy is wining races with it and having a ball, I got to upgrade the heads, intake and cam last winter also He is 73 now and started drag racing when he was 70 or 71 yrs. old, he has always been a car guy. He got the bug to go fast several years ago and bought two junky (according to him)1965 Plymouth Belevderes 1 two door sedans and made one car out of the two. He brings a older freind of his who is a car guy also to the races, I have heard him tell his other freinds when he first went to the drags up here all he saw was a bunch of old guys drag racing and having a blast doing it I walked away in 1988 and basically quit NHRA drag racing, sold my stocker and bracket car and took up flyimg I made myself a promise that I would never drag race again unless I was having fun,I hadn't won a race in four years back then and was hating myself at the races It is still fun now but I'm not racing as hard or as often as I use to, mostly bracket racing locally and test and tuning to learn more about how to make more power and go faster