When Mike Graham had his Gold 64 Polara usually 3 of us went. Mike did all the laptop and fuel and NOS adjusting, we did the tire pressure, repack the chute, change out the bottle after we had it warmed up to the correct pressure, filled it with fuel, pulled the plugs and reinstalled them, etc. People will want to go and help you on the KOS car John.
Mike drove up to the lanes so no towing was involved but he did want us to watch the launch or tape it to see if it spun some or the tires wadded up etc. We would make any adjustments after he got back and we gave him our impute.
It is Hard to do a NOS car by yourself but it can be done.
I am sure you will get it figured out John.
David

Only have a slow street/strip car that I run brackets with, no trailer, load up the tools in the trunk and head to the track.

I used to race sportbikes, and would have everything loaded onto a tiny open trailer and the back of my Jeep. It was important to streamline the simple stuff (loading/unloading, finding tools, etc) so I could spend more energy on tire/shock tuning and getting my head in the game. As someone else mentioned, a routine that is second nature helps immensely.

Can, and have.

ive been a one man show forever.im 65 and have suffered many broken bones and dislocations.for all yoyu old ferts out there that climb out the window in an enclosed trailer,do yourself a BIG favor and install an escape door.at the end of a hot grueling day at the track you bones will thank you for it.

Thanks for the tips on the nitrous side of the equation. I will probably take the car out for some NA hits early season to make sure the small block to big block switch-over went well and start slowly adding power. My Son Matt will be with me on some occasions but with him racing to we try to run our own program as much as possible. PRP (now Keystone again) has track rentals almost every Friday during the Summer but they are early in the day before our regular test n tune sessions so its harder to round up help.

for sure on the being organized thing. Had my racing check list that I always used( and constantly in flux ). Wife made her own check list for the track - included tires, belts /hoses, fuel, lights for night races, blower lube, loading/unloading. She also logged the runs, comments, and any changes we made between runs. Ya, no tear-offs, but I did paint a line on my trailer floor for loading / unloading consistency. Like staging, having a consistent routine helped. BTW, I love sprint car racing - I could have missed my calling.

I'm not usually alone at the track, but I do everything to the car myself. It was much easier running naturally aspirated. Nitrous adds a lot of work, but it's worth it, lol.

For a normal bracket car, I don't see any reason you couldn't do it all by yourself.

I see several posts about crawling out the window. I hope to avoid that with my new enclosed trailer with a driver side escape door. I noticed many trailers have the bottom of that about 11.5 to 12 inches off the floor, and some car doors are lower. My United trailer has the escape door 9.5 inches off the floor, so my next race car needs to clear that. My previous Dart would, Just to clarify, my new trailer escape door is 9.5 inches off the floor with the trailer fender 7.75 off the floor and 1.75 for the escape door frame.
Then there are
tube chassis racers that take off the drivers door and hang it on the wall before pulling into the trailer.

I can drive my cuda in my enclosed trailer and get out, but I still have the factory roll down windows. If I had fixed lexan windows, it wouldn't be possible...for me anyway. I'm 6'5" and 320 lbs.

I have more fun when the pit crew is there. They each do one thing and it frees me up enough to relax a little. My new car is a tow to the lanes kind of car. Hard to do by your self.

my tube chassis cuda was to low to clear the trailer fender where the escape door was so just screwed a 2x10 plank to the floor and it raised it up enough to clear.i just did it on the drvers side but if you leave your car in the trailer for storage you may want to raise both sides so it sits level.

Wholly crud. Note to self, never ever ever start crap with this guy. Hey LOVE your car.

wholly crud!!! your pretty agile for a big boy.Any relation to Houdini?

Being that I race small cars I can drive into the
trailer and still get out without any issues... my
hardest thing is some times I have to crank up the
landing leg so I can clear the angle at the door and
the ramp.. thats also with 7' alum extension ramps
that are mounted to the door

why don't anyone use a winch to pull the car in and out. a lot easier than climbing out the window

Not for me it isn't. I have a brand new remote control winch and its there for emergencies (breakage) and for my later years when I get old.

I use to winch my car in backwards to balance the load..
but I changed things around in the trailer so I pull in
now... the winch is just for break downs now days.. I cant
remember when I last used it

I always winched my car in the trailer.........never once drove it in. Winch is easy.........just takes an extra 10 minutes. Is everybody in such a hurry that 10 minutes is a killer

On cars with glass doors and lexan windows. If you want to drive it in the trailer, just remove drivers door and make a rack on the wall to hold it.

We had a guy get seriously hurt this past year out at Bremerton loading his car by himself. Not really sure how it happened, but afterward track officials asked everyone to please not attempt to load your car by yourself. Ask for help, and help when asked. I guess the guy broke his leg pretty bad, somehow got pinned between the car and the trailer.

The doors will come off that car in a sec John. You might see about making a bracket that you can hang it on the wall of the trailer so you can drive in and get out. I had a mount in my trailer and took the door off everytime in and out so crawling out was easy when you drove it in there. Just something to think about.