My son Scott and I went down to Columbus For the weekends Buckeye stock S/S races. Started by running into a freeway closure so jumped over to US23. A Chysler 300 vs semi shut that down at the Milan dragway exit. 6 hrs later I'm there. Saturday mornings warm up had the car over heating. Another failed Mezerrie water pump. Fortunately fellow N/SS racer Casey FJ has a new spare. Pull the radiator swap the pump, make 1st rd qualifing. 1s rd lift slightly at the stripe. Give it up by .0115. Crew Chief pro says I scrubbed .002. Scott loses a tight one rd 2 .-004 to a dead on zero. Sunday Scott gives up the stripe by .01 in rd 1. My first 2 opponents are -.001 red. I go thru the field pretty good. In the final I have him on the tree by .001. Tighten up as close as I could running dead .001. Nice win. We leave the track. Getting on US 23 just north of Columbus making the shift into 4th gear the dually has nothing but neutral. It's 9:00 Sunday night a little over 3 hrs from home. I call my friend Mike Dechicco (also N/SS racer) who I know lives close. He offers me his dodge 2500. Drive over with Scotts rig and pick it up and get back to the freeway. Disconnect my truck and tow it with a strap to a more secure spot. Come back hook up Mike's truck and head home. Made it by 1:30am. Now another friend and fellow N/SS race Dave Curl and I will attempt to go back down get it on his large flatbed trailer and get it home. It's amazing when you are in need, friends come from everywhere to help. Pretty sure the truck spun the center out of the clutch disc.
Doug

Congrats on the W..Great start to your year in the racecar..

another star added to the board of the car i like the most on this site.
congratulations !
too bad about the truck, but true friends always come through.

Doug, congrats. Sorry about your luck with the truck but happy you found some good help. Question, did you find any difference with the cam you put in opposed to the one with the rough lobe? Just curious.

Great job Doug

I had the clutch disc in one of my old car haulers(1955 Dodge D500) spin the clutch disc hub out of that clutch disc like your describing on the way to the old Orange County CA track years ago.
Did I say I hate Murphy
Why do we racers have all the bad luck

Sounds like you're still working for that win! Congrats though!!!

Nice job Doug!

The flexplate on my Cummins broke and was almost to the point of leaving me stranded as it broke the center completely out of the plate and was rattling like crazy!

Fortunately it was in town when it happened! Only has 436,000 miles on it!

great racing .
Man did you kill a chinaman or something ?

Tex

Congrats on the win , but through it all you came out on top . Gary

Sorry about the truck but an awesome job on the track. Congrats on the WIN.......

Congrats!!!

Congrats on the win!! Manual trans in the dually?

That's what you'd call working hard for a win? Either way congrats! I went to the event on-line and it mentioned you could 'buy-back' in? Was that not the case?

Congrats, Doug!

My friend Dave and I set out to retrieve the truck. Loaded Mike's truck on the trailer for the trip down. When we arrived I had forgot the keys. We broke in with a wooden spoon and a fly swatter out of the camper. Scott had pulled his winch out of his trailer. We mounted it on Daves trailer. Had to pull the wheel covers and trailer fenders to get it on the trailer. Made it back home by midnight. Thanks to all for help and others that have offered as well. Not an adventure I want to repete anytime soon.
Doug

Congratulations on the win Doug!




My converter bolts ripped out of my flexplate, leaving me stranded 5 hours from home... Installed a new billet converter, and Billet SFI flexplate. 2 years later the billet flexplate broke (just after warantee), leaving me stranded 2 hours from home...

WOW ..... been stuck on the road also, i guess the more we race the more we put ourselves out there for "it" to happen.
Congrats on the win ! !

o no - sorry to hear about the truck.

Congrats on the win.

The buckeye stock / super stock is a tough crowd.