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6T9PONY · 08-09-2002, 12:29 AM

We did have the races tonight, although not with as many cars as we were anticipating. It was just me, an Avenger

, the Nova SS 350, and a Roadrunner with a 318 (my cousin).

The Roadrunner raced the Nova, won by about 3 or 4 carlengths. Then the Roadrunner raced the Avenger and blew him away. I started this race and my cousin was screwing around and was burning off his tires as he was staging and launching. He still beat that Avenger off the line.

So it was my turn, I start the car (which was pretty dang hot, only sat for about 20-25 minutes after the 20 minute drive to "Texas" (that story in a bit), turn the park lights on, coast the 30 yards to the start line, do a 3 or 4 second burnout, rev it up to about 5000 RPM to clear the carb and staged. My cousin in his Roadrunner was to my left, staging also. I tached it up to about 1700-1800 RPM (spun when I launched at about 2000 last weekend). At the drop of the starters hand I mashed it and released the brake. I didn't spin at all, rather, I bogged. I still raped him off the line, but I didn't have a very good launch at all. This race wasn't very interesting so I won't go into very many more details, but I ended up beating him by over 10 carlengths.

Anyways, about the "Texas" location. We've named our separate areas we've found for racing by state location corresponding to the actually country. "Texas" is about 15-20 miles south of us. "Montana" is about 10-15 miles northwest of us near the Army igloos. "Colorado" is just outside the southwest part of town, and "Michigan" is about 15-20 miles northeast of town. If we hear something about cops heading to a certain area we head to a different location. Some of the non-racers carry CB radios and direct people where to go. They use the state name instead of the location so the cops don't know where we're headed. Anyone else do stuff like this?

08-09-2002, 12:29 AM	#6
6T9PONY All about the Windsor. Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 2,052	We did have the races tonight, although not with as many cars as we were anticipating. It was just me, an Avenger, the Nova SS 350, and a Roadrunner with a 318 (my cousin). The Roadrunner raced the Nova, won by about 3 or 4 carlengths. Then the Roadrunner raced the Avenger and blew him away. I started this race and my cousin was screwing around and was burning off his tires as he was staging and launching. He still beat that Avenger off the line. So it was my turn, I start the car (which was pretty dang hot, only sat for about 20-25 minutes after the 20 minute drive to "Texas" (that story in a bit), turn the park lights on, coast the 30 yards to the start line, do a 3 or 4 second burnout, rev it up to about 5000 RPM to clear the carb and staged. My cousin in his Roadrunner was to my left, staging also. I tached it up to about 1700-1800 RPM (spun when I launched at about 2000 last weekend). At the drop of the starters hand I mashed it and released the brake. I didn't spin at all, rather, I bogged. I still raped him off the line, but I didn't have a very good launch at all. This race wasn't very interesting so I won't go into very many more details, but I ended up beating him by over 10 carlengths. Anyways, about the "Texas" location. We've named our separate areas we've found for racing by state location corresponding to the actually country. "Texas" is about 15-20 miles south of us. "Montana" is about 10-15 miles northwest of us near the Army igloos. "Colorado" is just outside the southwest part of town, and "Michigan" is about 15-20 miles northeast of town. If we hear something about cops heading to a certain area we head to a different location. Some of the non-racers carry CB radios and direct people where to go. They use the state name instead of the location so the cops don't know where we're headed. Anyone else do stuff like this?