Damn , you guys that got to go to the Nats are lucky !!!
I WILL be there next year !!!
BTW - Anyone in the Southeast wanna go to Moroso for th Mopar show/race on
September 13 ?
I will be there as well .
It's near West Palm Beach , FL .
At 05:01 PM 8/11/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Hello list....................
>
>Well, we did the Nats..........I only got to meet Josh, but we had a great
>time Friday night on and off Brice Rd. I went to the track all three days.
>It was hot and dusty but a whole lot of fine rides and a few nice Daks
too. I
>raced on Sat in the trophy bracket class. Man was I kickin ass! I took out
>the first two rounds in elimination's, and thought I had the third round too,
>but the win light came on in the other (69 Charger) guys lane. After
checking
>my time slip I found out that according to the slip I had won, being
closer to
>my dial in time than the other fellow. I went to race control and asked them
>what was up. "Gee that timer is on the blink again" was all they said. Of
>course by then the trophy bracket race was over and the fellow in the 69
>Charger, Mooney was his name was collecting his prize. My dial was a 15.10
>and I ran a 15.123..........His dial was 14.10 and he ran a 14.323.......Glad
>I am a grown man and didn't really give a rats a$%...........Oh well, I will
>get them next year!
>
>I didn't make Brice Rd, Sun night as we left the track Sun afternoon and
after
>the hard ball police tactics of Sat night, I didn't feel like pressing my
>luck. Although I did manage to crank out a few crowd cheering burnout's,
>before finding a fellow DML'er, well lets just say he was swimming upstream
>w/o a.................I'll let him spill those beans!
>
>One thing that did happen Sun at the swap meet area. The wife and I collect
>the die cast NHRA cars, and Sat we had spotted a couple we needed. But cash
>on hand had withered to next to nothing. So I suggested we come back Sun and
>buy them. Well, anyway one of the cars had gone from $35 to $48 bucks. It
>was the Moon Eyes Funny Car, in 1/24 scale. I talked the guy into
selling it
>to me for $35. Walking down the same row, we run into Kenji Okazaki,
>the(former)driver of that car!.........In no time flat I had it signed and
>back in the box. Made our day :-)
>
>All in all we had a good time and will be back next year to WIN the bracket
>race. Hope to see more DML'ers out there in 99......................
>
>Gene in Houston
>BTW, its 19 hours to Columbus from here and 23 cups of coffee!
>
>
>
W . Jack Hilton III
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