Re: The little 6'er that could (long)

From: Richard A Pyburn (rap777@juno.com)
Date: Sun Oct 03 1999 - 21:24:45 EDT


Congrats Geoff!!!

Richard in San Antonio

On Sat, 02 Oct 1999 23:37:33 -0500 Alan Short <ashort@flash.net> writes:
>I'm writing this for my bro Geoffrey Hackbart, who I'm very excited
>for.
>After reading this, I think y'all will be as excited for him as I am.
>Check it out,
>Here in Dallas, we have one of those "sub groups" that have spun off
>this website and another like it. We call it the dallas dakotas.
>Anyway, we had a get-together today at Hooters and then we went to a
>local 1/8 mile track afterwards. Out of the 8 that showed, 7 were
>R/T's.
>One of the R/T's is a strong nitrous truck, so here's Geoffrey with
>his
>98 SLT cc 6 banger/auto. We leave Hooters and he leads the pack down
>the
>highway, a little 6er leading 7 R/T's, it was GREAT. We're having a
>blast.
>We get to the track, and the announcer walks up and comments about
>all
>the Dodges and how he's a Mopar fan, really cool guy.
>So we start time trialing and making several passes each.
>Out of nowhere, the announcer says we're about to start the quick 8
>races, how about a bracket race for just you Dakota guys?
>After coaxing a few of the ones that weren't too sure how to bracket
>race, we all agreed to do it. Woohoo!
>So out of the 8 of us, Geoffrey guns down 3 and he's in the final
>against a young man we call "the King kid", because he's really a
>good
>racer and his R/T runs 14.6's in the 1/4.
>The King red lights and Geoffrey cruises to a WIN!
>We couldn't have been happier for him (I won a 5ski on him) and
>gathered
>around him for a good back slappin'.
>Hats off to Geoffrey Hackbart, you & your 6'er RULE!
> Alan S.

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