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How was Mopars at the Strip ??
#654222
03/28/10 10:07 PM
03/28/10 10:07 PM
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Cleveland
sunroofgtx
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Cleveland
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Anybody see Big Willie and his Charger? How was the show?
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: 2QUICK4U]
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03/29/10 01:40 AM
03/29/10 01:40 AM
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California, USA
Phil Saran
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The show was good, I think racer turn out was down due to the NHRA race in Tucson and the
SECDA race at Fontana all on the same weekend.
I got to talk with Al Agular for a few minutes
and I saw Ted's red duster, but never caught up
with him.
Swap meet was smaller than last year, but the
car show was full.
Phil Saran
Parker, Colorado
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: G_bob]
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03/29/10 10:41 AM
03/29/10 10:41 AM
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Utah
dragnduster
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Utah
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I was there pitted with Ted and Don (Diego and Jeepmon). I left saturday night as ususal, but saw Ted went out in the first round pro sunday, Don made it to the 3rd round in pro. Ron Silva (dragrcr97) was pitted not far from us and also went out in pro 3rd round.
I ran a new best for me at Vegas on Sat morning with a 10.03 at 132, 1.40 60ft into a fairly stiff headwind. MPH was down 1 from the 133 it went on friday.
All in all had another great time at MATS.
Glen, that was a great run you made into a stiff head wind. I think you were running a buddy of mines yellow Dart on that pass and he ran a 10.02. He said that was an excellent run and you guys were side by side all the way. The track photographer had a good shot of you and him on the line on that run. Good to get to see you again and glad you made it home safe. Dave
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: sunroofgtx]
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03/29/10 11:48 AM
03/29/10 11:48 AM
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So Cal
Sinitro
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Yeah.. Willie was there as usual telling his great stories.. He usually comes to our Van Nuys cruise nites, always the same ole Wille.. Swap meet was large, car show had many cars and good ole straight up Mopar drag racing. Saturday nite @ the Cannery was rockin, tons of cars and WCRS played for 2 1/2 hours.. Just my $0.01.. 
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: Sinitro]
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03/29/10 12:51 PM
03/29/10 12:51 PM
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Spokane Washington
ScottSmith_Harms
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Mr Wizzard
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Yeah..
Willie was there as usual telling his great stories..
Man no kidding! That guy can sure talk! I walked up to him at 5:00 on Saturday trying to buy his CD's, there was one guy there getting a CD autographed. He would write one letter, then stop writing to tell a story, then continue on. It took him 45 minutes to sign ONE CD! No joke!
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: ScottSmith_Harms]
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03/29/10 12:59 PM
03/29/10 12:59 PM
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California, USA
Phil Saran
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The stiff head wind on Saturday caused some real
problems. Bob Mazzolini put his Cuda on the back
bumper on his morning run. Seems the wind got under the car and lifted it way up.
Phil Saran
Parker, Colorado
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: dragnduster]
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03/29/10 01:37 PM
03/29/10 01:37 PM
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Riverside, Ca
G_bob
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I was there pitted with Ted and Don (Diego and Jeepmon). I left saturday night as ususal, but saw Ted went out in the first round pro sunday, Don made it to the 3rd round in pro. Ron Silva (dragrcr97) was pitted not far from us and also went out in pro 3rd round.
I ran a new best for me at Vegas on Sat morning with a 10.03 at 132, 1.40 60ft into a fairly stiff headwind. MPH was down 1 from the 133 it went on friday.
All in all had another great time at MATS.
Glen, that was a great run you made into a stiff head wind. I think you were running a buddy of mines yellow Dart on that pass and he ran a 10.02. He said that was an excellent run and you guys were side by side all the way. The track photographer had a good shot of you and him on the line on that run. Good to get to see you again and glad you made it home safe. Dave
Dave, that was a good race. I found that at vegas anyway, the car likes to rev higher. On that run, I hit the rev limiter (which was set at 7200) just as I made the 1-2 shift. I had planned to shift at 6800 and set the shift lite to that, but it didn't come on until 7000.
My first run on Friday I shifted at 6400, and went 10.17 @ 132.14 with 1.44 60'. Second run set light at 6700 and went 10.06 at 133.43 with 1.42 60'.
Second run on Friday I did shift it at the planned 6800 and it went 10.04 at 132 again so I think the 6900 to 7000 range may be the best on the current tune. At least at Vegas anyway.
I had fun and it was very good to see you again....
Glenn
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: G_bob]
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03/29/10 04:42 PM
03/29/10 04:42 PM
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Las Vegas
Al_Alguire
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Las Vegas
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It SUCKED, at least for me  never worked so hard for so little Never had as many problems on a race weekend EVER!
"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."
"It's never wrong to do the right thing"
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: SB449VALIANT]
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03/29/10 06:34 PM
03/29/10 06:34 PM
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A collage of whims
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Not to worry, Al, your car looked sharp.
My observations, for what they're worth:
Too dang windy, flags were straight, they ran 1/8 mile briefly. No Hemi Under Glass wheelstand. Swap meet seemed to have some good stuff, but some Barrett-Jackson prices.
Turnout generally seemed down by 30% or so. That's all the snivelling I can muster, though.
The A-cars (SS/AH) were awesome, a couple of beautifully done cars that I hadn't previously seen close-up showed. Their ETs were all over the place, but those are still the Kings of SS. Herb McCandless & Arlen Vanke were funny as hell; also had nice conversations with Buddy Martin, Diane Sox and Tom Coddington. A lot of very very nice cars in the show. The Midway was pretty good, and I managed to part with some money here & there.
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: Mopar_Rich]
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03/29/10 06:54 PM
03/29/10 06:54 PM
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Las Vegas NV
moparmanjames
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Las Vegas NV
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Well my buddy Joe Brown won Super-Pro. I went one round in Q16 before redlighting. Car ran great , I just need a new driver.
Hey my Buddy Phil Doughty runnered up
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: J_BODY]
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03/29/10 06:57 PM
03/29/10 06:57 PM
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Las Vegas NV
moparmanjames
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Saw Al go out 2nd round in quick 16. Saw Moparmanjames go out 2nd round(?) in his crossfire in Street. Saw Aarcuda (tony) get pushed out of the box in 2nd round in Super Pro. That web site with the race results was quite nice! OH YEAH!! I saw Wyoming advance to 2nd round in Nostalgia SS. hows your handwriting Glen? Every year your last name is different. Didn't see Teds name in any results??.
I went red  in the 1st round, but it was tons of fun and I bought some cool alky stuff for the Duster.
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Re: How was Mopars at the Strip ??
[Re: Al_Alguire]
#654241
03/29/10 09:46 PM
03/29/10 09:46 PM
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Salt Lake City
camastomcat
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It SUCKED, at least for menever worked so hard for so littleNever had as many problems on a race weekend EVER!
Did you figure out what went wrong with the car?
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