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Drag Racing Discussions => Drag Racing => Topic started by: bud on February 19, 2013, 07:59:06 AM
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This one is for all those wannabe Drivers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2e3eMmv4Ng&feature=player_embedded
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Looks like fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST6N2yFN35E&feature=player_embedded
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Test and Tune St Louis Style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz1nIwAnR-I&feature=player_embedded
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Test and Tune in my front yard ...Good thing I have a 2 Acher front yard and a 3 acher backyard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh2ZezennOg&feature=player_embedded
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Ya like Flatheads ??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0jP-lCRamQ&feature=player_embedded
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My Son Tim Rides this everyday from Wildomar to Anaheim ca 60 miles one way to work,I would rather Drive the most dangerous Dragster than Ride a bike like this everyday Hummm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X8gqgetitg&feature=player_embedded
My son Tim was hit on the 91 fwy last friday on his motorcycle :
the following Tim has written today.[nov,2011]
Last night as I was not sleeping I was thinking about everything that has happened in the last 5 days and realized I am quickly loosing many of the details and before I do want to do my best to give you my view of this time in my life.
For obvious reasons I will just start this after impact and the feeling and experiences that have now become part of the history of not only my life but my families.
BAM~! The next thing I know I am flying through the air I cant remember seeing anything. Bang I bounce off the freeway and slide to a stop. Even now the images are foggy and hard to put to words but what seemed instantly as I roll over I see people standing all around me. A man in slacks and a dress shirt, a young Hispanic girl kneeling down and my side. Everyone is asking me questions and telling me not o move but I have to get my helmet and gloves off. I some how get everything off. I can feel the rough hard concrete as my fingers dig into its surface as I feel the pain in my leg begin to over whelm any other injuries I have. I tell slacks guy to get my phone out of my motorcycle bag and to call Jeni. I know this news is going to be her worst fear coming true but I am alone and in incredible pain and just need someone. I can hear other people in what seems to be all talking to a 911 operator asking me my name and age and so on. A biker that was riding behind me some distance takes his jacket off and folds it up to put under my head. When I lift my head I take a second to look down at my leg and am disgusted to see my foot pointing in the wrong direction. This seems to make the pain worst so I quickly decide to not do that again.
What seems like seconds later I can hear the sirens coming toward me and a CHP motorcycle officer leans into my view and tells me they are right here and everything is going to be ok. I look at his face and remember him and tell him. “I think I know you, I stopped with you when another motorcyclist crashed in front of me a year or so ago” He looks back and smiles and says “yeah, I do remember you, You have a new bike now.”
The next thing I know there is a firefighter leaned over me, she has an English accent and is so sweet. She tells me she needs to start a line on me and before I can even begin to think I feel the sting of needles plunging into my hands and leg. Quickly I feel the cold air on my body and can see they are cutting all my gear and clothes off my body and as vulnerable as one can be I am now lying on the 91 freeway with nothing but my underwear on. One of the fire men tells me to come by the Corona station after I get better and they will give me one of their station shirts, I can’t wait to get the shirt. Neck brace hard board underneath and last on the list was my foot. After what I hard as 20 something of morphine surging through my body (which didn’t seems to change anything) The sweet voiced English firefighter tells me “we are going to move your foot right now and it will hurt so hold me hand.” I never made it to her hand as a pain I could never describe envelopes every cell in my body and I grab onto her leg and bite down on my biker friends leather jacket (I know I left teeth marks in that jacket and never knew who he was.) Seconds later I am being lifted up into the air and onto a stretcher. They roll me into the ambulance and the whole time all I remember thinking is how incredibly smooth the ride of this thing is.
Into the ambulance and all I see is the wood paneled ceiling and a single light. The doors close and we slowly drive away from the scene. The paramedic starts talking to me asking me my name, what I do for a living. I focus on my breathing and try to get my mind wrapped around what has just happened and what state I am really in.
We stop and the doors open to the ambulance and I am rolled out and into an emergency room. Once again I am surrounded by people doing things to every part of my body. Weather from the morphine of some slight head trauma I begin to feel very nauseous and announce that I may very well throw up and the next thing I know still strapped to my back board and neck brace I am spun onto my side and…. Well you can guess this part….
From here on things become really hard to remember and put in any time line but I know they were shooting me up with some wonderful substance every hour of two and that seemed to make everything tolerable.
Jeni walks in and fear and worry I se on her face will ache my heart for the rest of my life. Holly is there and can’t resist coming over and softly touching my shoulder. I tried to assure them I am going to be ok but I know what they see and the words I am telling them do not match up.
Hours go by and doctors come and go, I am sure Jeni could add some much here as I wandered in a foggy drug induced state.
Next up in surgery. Now I need to give a little personnel info. Tim has never been in a hospital never been in surgery, never been “under” so as much as this had every ingredient to completely put me over the edge the pain and knowledge that all these people are here to help me.
They roll my into surgery and after one last kiss from Jeni I enter a cold white sterile room. I lay on the table shaped like a crucifix. I look up at the lights yet again and as soon as it all started I am in a dark room being moved from one bed to another by a nurse. The only words I mutter are asking her if I already had the surgery. She smiles and ensures me that in fact I have.
Now the hospital stay starts
My Son
Tim Smith also holds the World Record for the fastest Elect,Scale Dragster
play it again Sam...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72bycVMwK8&feature=player_embedded
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This is my last Front motor car sorry my camera person was on the wrong side but I still ran 9.96 on my first test pass not bad for a inj s/b and a glide 2500 launch with a 5000 stall converter. my plan was to stay 9.99 or slower because I am not going to cert the chassis and I let my NHRA lic expire so I am going to run 6.40 or 9.99 so I don't have the cost of NHRA big prices. at KCIR Track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ17vVpuVq8&feature=player_embedded
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This one is cool what do you think ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSfgH8tToxQ&feature=player_embedded
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OK Guys ,Change of pace if you Break parts Were to go for all the old stuff....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VadAcb94GZE&feature=player_embedded
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This one, I put a friend in my Dragster on the LeftSide last year and now he wants to sell his Door Car and Build a Front Motor Dragster I Don't know why. LOL
HE SAID :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ORGxUSg5k8&feature=player_embedded
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how about this for a flathead.. Sounds good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_I90cj0Z1Q&feature=player_embedded
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Here you go, not much to see but it sure sounds good to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsU6_YIZhH4&feature=player_embedded
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Do you like Fire then this should lite you up..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEcFnQSmflo&feature=player_embedded#!
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Hammer DOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFLIHqdOl0&feature=player_embedded
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Well I am starting to get my old VHS tapes on DVD now, this one was the first test run on
a chassis I built in 1991, the test was at Carlsbad,CA about that time I can't remember the date for sure, so forgive the poor video, but the tape is 18 years old now and I am still learning how to convert all this crap on my computer..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E8ewfp1I58&feature=player_embedded
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This is my other car, I know its not nostalgia but I just though I would throw this in as it is as much a part of my racing life as my front motor car.The first 2min40sec was at Brotherhood, T.I.,The last was at Pomona plus it was one of the few times I ran at Pomona Winter Nationals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZ19whkvk8&feature=player_embedded
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OK Guys I though you might be getting tired of the same old thing, This is my next Race Car..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xv1B5SWsWM&feature=player_embedded
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OK for those of us that have run at Lions Dragstrip [the Beach]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn7S_CTvcA0&feature=player_embedded
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I like this one too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaJ4xxMO0QM&feature=player_embedded
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this one is not bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OuiGosYppI&feature=player_embedded
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Someone once ask me did Lions ever run 4 cars at a time and I seem to remember that I ran with 3 other cars when I ran B/S and I think I found the prof look at the lanes in this pic and you can see were there is 4 car lanes there but then again I could be wrong I only ran a stock class for one year and move on to alterd then Dragsters.
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This is a good video for all you guys running Roadsters, This guy is the 2007 version of John Milner in American Greffiti
Check out that he is not running a safety harness , no fire suit, and a motorcycle helmet running a blown motor. Hummm that takes gonads..
Defiantly old School I like it ,if he's got the Ball's to run it,
then I'll watch him run.
Well I guess when you get out of Calf the rest of the world really don't care what nhra rule book say's. there are 4 tracks in missouri 1 nhra and 3 outlaw tracks that pay better than the nhra track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErTRuNzfI5w&feature=player_embedded
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ok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpE2tTSJLe0&feature=player_embedded
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Rust or paint, polish and chrome not an issue..
This is truly a run what you brung deal.
And again I like that..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNX2iM_QcDo&feature=player_embedded
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Nostalgia looks great with the 3 point cage but the 5 or 6 point is much safer.
We have come a long way sence I drove a altered an a Dragster with just a leather jacket and a helmet an bluejeans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ULZnjxiZdE&list=UUb13RwH7N2-nWb0tSU1D1Vg&index=3
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OK Back to business Bad Luck at the Track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0KmGfBCJtQ&feature=player_embedded
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Boy you have been busy!
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ya these are the some of the same videos I put on ANRA web site over the last few years they have got over 6000 views, I though you guys might like to see them with out pageing thru hours and hours of video's. lol look under ANRA Dragracing Bad Luck at the track, I have 54 years of drag racing all in my head. lol
The First Track I was on was Lions, Sept 1959. lol
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Just warming up the car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFKzsDhpi0A&feature=player_embedded
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Home sweet home, ill never forget you..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fu3yCRBEMA&feature=player_embedded
So Cal was the heart beat of Drag racing , I know Guy's that moved to so Cal just to be where the heart of Drag Racing was.
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I don't know if any of you ever knew John Gates{from IOWA} but if you did I would like to share this with you. June,4 2008
Hi Bud
I bought this car (202" WB, basket case roller) in 1975? Installed ONE 327 SBC on gas with my first powerglide and ran A/MD (AHRA) and B/ED (NHRA). I only ran the 1/8 mi with a best if 5.62 - 133 mph. That would be an 8.80 in the quarter. We called it the silver car as I never painted the bare aluminum.
Eric found and emailed me these pictures last week.
This car, owned and driven by Jim Bucher, a AA/GD won the Popular Hotroding meet at Martin, Mich and the NHRA Supernationals at Ontario, Ca in 1971.
John rip 11/10/08
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can you say over Kill
(http://buds-motorsports.webs.com/overkill.jpg)
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What Fire Suit...
(http://buds-motorsports.webs.com/whatseatbelt.jpg)
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Some days it just dont pay to get out of BED.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QfIumUKeMU&feature=player_embedded
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YAAAA!!! WOO-HOO!!! After I saw the first video I thought Wow, what a ride! Music to my ears. 8 grand zings and out the back door. Lots of motivation here. I got on the phone and ordered more parts for mine. Thanks Bud! Great stuff!
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Re: Good and Bads at the Track :
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2013, 09:23:58 AM »
Someone once ask me did Lions ever run 4 cars at a time and I seem to remember that I ran with 3 other cars when I ran B/S and I think I found the prof look at the lanes in this pic and you can see were there is 4 car lanes there but then again I could be wrong I only ran a stock class for one year and move on to alterd then Dragsters.
Bud – Thanks for taking the time to post all those videos! Enjoyed the fhs and Lions in Long Beach.
I have a 4-wide story for you, not mine, but Mark who lived it. Mark turns 83 this year. Around 1950 when drag racing was starting, there was a strip called Santa Ana. I think today it’s John Wayne Airport in Orange County (near Disneyland). If I remember, he said CJ Hart was the point person and organizer for the drags there. Mark lived in Altadena and his hangout back then was Bell Auto Parts, so if you wanted to know what was going on each weekend, you’d go to your local speed shop. Santa Ana was one of the first organized drag races, no Christmas Tree yet. Mark said at least 4 cars, and sometimes more would stage and drag race. Multiple cars would pull up, starter would point to each driver on track, who would nod yes “ready” and then the starter would raise the flag and drop it. We all know what that means : )
Typical of the race cars back then served double duty as their daily drivers. Mark had a 40 Ford Coupe that on race day, he would strip the interior, pull the hood, drain the gas tank. He sat on a wooden “orange crate” as did a few of the guys (for real) and he had a 5 gallon military tank with a hand pressure pump that set next to the orange crate that he would hand pump to feed fuel to the engine. He’d only keep 1.5 gallons in the tank, the other 3.5 gallon space was for needed air pressure. That tank also ran the fuel in his and Beal’s 209ci drylake lakester that they ran with the Russetta TA. Then around 1959 when Mark started building “Flathead Obsession,” a fuel fed, he used that same tank and pump with 90-100 percent. So to answer your question, Santa Ana had 4-wide drag racing…….so it could of happened at “the Beach” too. And by the way, the Beach was Obsessions home track. DF
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DF
ya thanks df ya Santa ana was where the john wayne is now. and yes I know cj hart, the last time I saw him he was rideing down the return road at Pomona in a golf cart many years ago. I have a picture of lions dragstrip back then if you look at the tire tracks in the lanes you can tell they ran 4 cars wide.
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Nice Day to go Racing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhbr3qiaHt8&NR=1&feature=endscreen