Mod's, can we get a sticky for this? This is a great show/race that needs our support. Darlington is my home track and is a really nice place, great track prep too. 2 day event, racing both days, block party saturday night. Hoping to see some of you fellas there this year! Thanks, CHIP

Link to the flyer...
http://palmettonationals.com/2009_flyer

I will be there fpr show and race event. Looks like it will be great. How lots of other show up. As you said it is a nice track and it seems like they have this event together.

Chip,

Please put hte dates in the subject header and we can put it on a sticky this week-end (can't be more than 2 weeks before the show per the rules)

Send me a reminder friday and I'll do it then...ok?

if my car doesnt look like this in 2 weeks i will be there

Bobby...It's less than 2 weeks away. CHIP

What are classes and purses?

Herb:

If you go to Darlington's web site you will see a list of the entry fee, one day or two day, classes and the purses. This looks like this might be fun. Haven't raced at Darlington and probably 25+ years.

I guess me and pops are going to come and bring Coronet show car and the Super Bee.

At the event last year they cut the purses due to low turnout. It looks like they are advertising it more this year so hopefully they will have a bigger car count all around.

Hope all yall can come!

Last year was the first time this show/race was ever held. Considering it was their first time I think they did pretty well. It's been advertised better w/ more preparation this time and should have more people come out. CHIP

I agree...it was a decent show last year and I do not blame for cutting the purse...had to be done. I hope to see them get more support this year. I think this could end up being a very big show for the area and it has a good track for racing.

Spread the word.

last year all the guys from charleston ended up at the circle track. it should be much better this year

So who else is coming? Mike and Stephen Daurity are coming w/ a couple cars. I hear Stephen might be looking for some grudge runs with the black and orange super bee. CHIP

If you keep spinning on the starting line, I want to run that blue hemicuda! LOL Should be a blast hopefully the weather will hold out.

We are thinking about going. Will keep an I on the weather.

My son won the jr dragster on sunday!!!!!

Johnny...Congrats to your son! How'd you do? Sorry I didn't get a chance to speak to you, never saw you at your trailer. We left early since my car seemed to be launching on ice all day, lol.

sixpackgut...Looked for you before we left, but didn't see you. Was good to see you again, wish you'd been able to bring the challenger! You coulda whooped my butt if you could have hooked the least little bit, lol.

My buddy Wes won the street class w/ the silver Nissan Altima SE/R.

My junk blew the tires off through first gear on all 3 passes I made. My car just didn't like the track and I was only footbraking. Exact same setup carried the front tires last saturday night. Nothing against the track prep, my car is just sensitive.

Made a new rule for myself...No more daytime racing when it's hot. I think I lost 5 lbs sitting in the staging lanes.

Had a pretty good turnout I thought. We had a great time, other than Alex getting sunburnt real bad. CHIP

Guys,
Was Sunday better than Saturday? I was there all day Saturday and was very disappointed in the turnout of Mopars. There were only 3 swap meet vendors selling crap too.

I doubt it, we didn't go on sunday.

I don't understand why more don't come? It's almost as nice of a facility as Rockingham is (The Rock has a little more room), but more vendors go there.

I'd rather see it held when the weather's a little cooler, but that's just me.

I wish more of the mopar guys would have come out to support the show. It's nice to have someone like Galeana Dodge (Frog) trying to put on a show for the Mopars, so why not come out and support it? If the purse for the race isn't high enough, then you need to stay home anyway. It has the potential to be a quality show/race. There are enough mopars close enough to attend, and it's a good facility. CHIP

Same swap meet people. Had few more drag car show up. Nobody came back with show cars if was just a few. Didn't have but 5 or 6 in street class on sunday 20 cars in footbrake maybe 45 in top 12 in jr dragster

70cuda:
I had planned to attend and we try to support the MOPAR shows within a distance. The problem of having cars is that people do not know when the shows are scheduled. Advertising budgets for tracks, I know are real tight. Members on boards like this are good advertisement and if we know where a show is and get the word out we can help support the tracks and the shows.

Weather and other events on the same day is a problem. If you were riding down I-40/I-95 south in North Carolina area Friday night between 9:00 to 11:00 and the rain/wind/lightning was plenty strong.

The vendors are not able to justify the expense to attend the shows. The sales, not only at the show but during their nomal buisness operations, to the people who do attend, are down so bad that they cannot pay the expenses for the week-end. For the last few years, Hemiparts had been spending his week-ends doing a mopar show almost every other week-end. Maybe the tracks will take this into account and not continue to cancel the shows. We know that some we have attended in the past have already been cancel for this year.

If the weather is good, everyone should try to support the track and the vendors who are financially able to show up.