More cool pictures. Thanks for sharing.

...by the way I heard a car went off the big end down at TVD last weekend. Not sure if you've ever looked where you go when you don't stop at that track, but it aint pretty!! Didn't hear any details...just that it happened.

yeah guess they figured his rod from master cylinder to the pedal came off so he had no brakes. was told that he went through the lights in the 10's. guess he slammed it into park but tranny broke or drive shaft broke so car was still moving. That is about all I know.

corey

My soures tell me it was
one of the Fiche (fike) kids ..Not sure how they spell that name

It was a 13-2nd something and throttle stuck

and went off , down ..

Geez, turn off the key ?

A 13 3nd car should never see the end of that track , there is plenty of shut down area

plus that hill takes a bunch of speed off

My old heavy beast went 10.95 @ 122 and with
lousy drum brakes, I could make 1st turn off
without much effort

Jr dragster drivers ..Yeessshhh

I have never had a problem either but I am slow. The big up hill drag at at after the traps is a big + too.

Corey. If you think about it cruise up the gravel road on the north side of the track and snap a picture of the end of the track sometime.

"HEY YOU KIDS!!!! GET OUT OF THE CREEK!!!"

...I still laugh at the thought of that BigD.

I really have to get some of my old picts scanned so I can post them. Nothing special, but always interesting to remember back when.

I don't know if you were there when the
concession stand burnt down ..?

Well, some kids got in concession "tent"
grabbed a box of Butterfingers..

Next day, he went on and on and on about his
butterfingers

"WE ARE NOT RACING UNTIL, WE GET PAID FOR THOSE
CANDY BARS.. !!"

After like 2 hours of this..I went and gave
Fuji his 10 bucks for the dumb candy bars

Oh, it was something

No I moved in 97....the year they FINALLY paved the dang return road. Payed into that "pavement fund for six years and never saw it happen.

...word I got on the end of the track incident was that the rod that goes to the master cylinder came dislodged and then bent. Guess the guy went into the rail on the topside to scrub some speed, but ended up hitting the pea gravel trap (which hasn't been tilled up since...???? full of weeds, etc..). Guess they do have some water barrels beyond that because I guess he hit those and sent a spray of water up in the air before he dropped off into the great unknown (maybe the world is flat!). Tower didn't know that he went into the "abyss", but did see the water and thought that he blew a hose or something so they shutdown the track to look for coolant and found a totalled race car and a shaken bruised racer. At least the driver "walked away".

I went to national points meet at cornhusker in Omaha when I was 15 with my dad and uncle and remember a brookdale ford 427 wagon,petes patriot amx,judy lily,Don Grotheer in hemi cuda raced dyno don in maverick in prostock and won,assination funny car was there,I believe the hair bender cause it sure looks familiar,but to make a point,this has brought back lots of memories,I grew up in Nebraska and went to thunder valley 1 time and wj was there,I was there to watch Larry Small from my home town try to win in ss/I in nova this was probly in 78 or 79,cornhusker was in 71,yea I am over half century old but do miss the days of run watcha brung,probly why I am still with MOPOWER to this day,I was hooked young.Thanks for the memories fellas.

I know this is an old post, but I just stumbled across it tonight looking up some info on a guy I used to work for and the owner of the Kansas Hemi car among other Hemi's. Wolfe Racing, John Wolfe and son Dave Wolfe. Talk about a guy who knows his stuff, John's a Mopar Maniac to this day at 70 something years old. He lives in Ault, Co and runs a horse ranch and small Custom Mopar component shop call Mopar Madness. Two years ago John and I finished his 67 Dart GT colored Plum Crazy Purple, that had been sitting in the works for many years, under the hood you'll find 550 horse stroked 360!!(Johns driver!) Talk about a hair raising car! The father and son combo just couldnt get along and thats the reason they threw in the towel for racing. Dave now resides in Alaska. John is a hard fella to get along with tho. Ive got his contact info if anyone wants to get ahold of him.

I love this thread ..reminds of some great times!

If anyone needs to get ahold of Ol John Find him here... www.coloradogaitedhorsefarm.com



I see he is selling his place.. Too bad, its a really nice spot tucked in the middle of no mans land!

cause it needs to be !

Eric Feucht is the kid that went off the track in his mid 70's Nova. He was running mid tens in a time trial with my buddy racing beside him.

Very cool thread guys. I got my first taste of drag racing there with my dad when I was about 11. Even though that's only been 20 years ago. I've sat and listened many neat stories about the good old days at that track form my dad and all his buddies. Awesome!

My dad took my brother and I up there when I was seven or eight. I remembers a black VW bug with flames on it and Don Prudomes Hemi Colt that went every way but straight and thats about it until '91 ish.

Jim and Danny Dalrymple ran Chevys back in the day all the time up there. They have alot of photos also. I will have to look through them and copy them for you guys. Danny is building a '63 Dodge Maxi clone right now.

Wasn't his name Don Johnson ?

Was it kind of yelloish , candy color sort of ?

Big Steve still has the super tricks on his car!!! (apparently they were a good deal in '74)