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One more too go! Friday is looking real good from here. Hope everyone has a great day.
-------------------- Hawkeye: SSOA F98-C98
1998 SS - Black All Options - Mods Whisper Lid, K & N, Lou's Short Stick, Shift Light, Skip Shift, SLP Y, Borla, 4:10's, BMR STB, SLP SFCs, Granatelli MAF, Hypertech III, 160 Stat, Mallory Billet Pedals, Metco Aluminum LCAs,Fast Toys Ram Air Mod, Spohn Panhard Bar, BMR Torque Arm, free EGR mod,power antenna, BMR LCA brackets, Gentex Temp/Compass Auto Dim Mirror, AllMaxx Strobe and Wig Wag, BAER Eradispeed rotors,PPC Headers with Random Technology Hi Flow Cats, BMR Drive shaft Loop,FAST 78MM Throttle Body, FAST 78MM Composite Intake, Mobil 1 & lots of Zaino.
Wife & Best Friend Mary - copilot. Posts: 5558 | From: Windsor, Ontario. Canada | Registered: Feb 2000
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-------------------- Tom Mackesy 98-SS #2365 With Stuff and things!! One of these days I'll learn to drive it!! Posts: 1632 | From: Rindge NH, formerly Boylston MA | Registered: Feb 2000
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Just one more to go. Have a good day all. It's ccccold here today, supposed to snow.
-------------------- 1998 SS convertible NBM Neutral 1st Saleable SS Vert in 98 1979 Pro Street Z-28 Posts: 316 | From: Pekin Illinois | Registered: Jan 2003
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Good morning! Going to get maybe one inch of snow tomorrow.There goes the salt free roads.
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Morning all ........... from a cold, snowy North Carolina ............. hope you have a good one
The subject of the pic(s) of the day ......... Bob Glidden, from Whiteland, Indiana ........... the man was a master at making anything run and be ultra-competitive ............. he won Pro/Stock championships in Mustangs, Pintos, T-Birds, Plymouth Arrows, Fairmonts, etc, etc .............. pictured is the Pinto (originally purchased from Gapp & Roush) and the "Flying Boxcar" ....... the Fairmont .............. Bob was an innovator ............ a mechanical genius .............. which brings me to a story.
There was a period in NHRA pro stock racing that the Mopar team consisting of Darryl Alderman and Scott Geoffrion were unbeatable ............ they always found a way to win, even when they didn't qualify well. Then the un-thinkable happened ........ at Dallas Alderman's car suffered an "engine explosion" .......... a flash fire shooting back out of the hoodscoop ............... two weeks later at Houston the same thing happened to Geoffrion's car ................ everyone knows that is a common side effect of improperly metered nitrous oxide ................ but nitrous was strictly prohibited in Pro/Stock
A suspicious break-in at the Rod Shop, in which all their backup engines and equipment was "stolen" precluded an NHRA investigation ........... plus NHRA didn't want to embarrass Chrysler Corporation, who was the cars major sponsor (Chrysler sponsored three of the NHRA meets at that time) ............. NHRA was also under siege because their tech inspections were now in question ........... Glidden was outspoken in his belief that the Mopars were cheating and NHRA couldn't catch them ............... so an agreement was reached .............. Glidden would "Nitrous" his car and try to enter it at some meet in the future ................ well Bob waited almost a year, until the U.S. Nationals at Indy ................. pushed his car through tech inspection ............ it passed as usual .................. he then went out for his first qualifying run ............. destroyed the national record ............ and covered the field by over a quarter of a second ............ he then took the car directly to tech inspection and showed the inspectors the nitrous system .............. the nitrous bottle was hidden in a hollowed out battery in the rear ............ the lines were hidden in the brake lines ................ injector nozzles had been hidden inside the intake manifold, and a dummy "tach" line connected the metering valve hidden under the dash to the engine ............. the man was a genius ............ and NHRA had egg all over their faces .............. he disconnected the system, qualified fourth, and lost in the semi-finals.
By the way ........ the Mopar gang sat out an entire year ............... couldn't get their cars qualified when they did return ........ and closed up shop a little over a year later
-------------------- 2002 SS #3344 (Brutus) Sebring Silver Metallic, M6, CME, SS Grille, Chrome 10 spokes Posts: 655 | From: North Carolina ... the land of Possum & Dumplings | Registered: Jan 2002
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Hawk is getting washed tonight abnd covered in preparation for the snow and weather manana and the weekend ..
Old Coyote... you whould write a book on all your experiences with all the drag racers you've met/known
in addition you can throw in the story of your emergency fule dump over a full drive-in-theatre Posts: 694 | From: Newport, RI (Middletown Technically) | Registered: Feb 2000
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Never mind , I really want to just say the two best posts everday are Old Coyote's (I love the pics and stories) and Hawkeye's!!
Posts: 5946 | From: Litchfield, NH, USA | Registered: Feb 2000
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I hate those Old Coyote stories and pic's. The problem is that they show my age, since I remember most of those guys when I went to the drags in the '60's & early '70's. j/k I guess I should be more concerned if I couldn't remember them.
Keep posting those stories and pic's, as they bring back many fond memories. Posts: 2359 | From: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Jul 2001
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Gearing up for this storm, if it happens: I was up to 1:15 putting the snowtreads on both cars.
-------------------- Jim Mac '98 Silver SS #108 Posts: 1907 | From: I hope I'm not repeating myself. Again. And Again. Stop picking on me! Waaahhh!! | Registered: Feb 2000
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Mornin' everyone! Clear skies...no rain or snow in sight, atleast for today anyway. Drove the hubby's SS to work today...he drove mine. I still like my SS TONS more than his!! Hiz ma boy!!!
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2000 Arctic White #0740, Ebony leather,M6,t-tops,ASR,smooth bellows,airlid,Borla 3" exhaust,Momo wheels,tint,BMR STB,corvette FRC's, Bilsteins,G2 Super Springs Posts: 290 | From: Utah | Registered: Mar 2003
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I don't think I've heard the fuel dump story, just references to it.
Teri ............ when I was in the Air Force I was a crewmember on the "Looking Glass" .......... the Strategic Air Command's airborne command post
The climb corridor used at Offutt AFB overflys populated areas ............ we had an engine failure one night right after takeoff ............. we had to abort the takeoff and dump fuel immediately to get back to landing weight ................ we accidentally "showered" a drive-in movie theater and all their "guests" with JP4 jet fuel .................. along with a lot of houses in southwest Omaha and Papillion, Nebraska ............ we did get back down safely, but I don't guess we'll ever live that one down
-------------------- 2002 SS #3344 (Brutus) Sebring Silver Metallic, M6, CME, SS Grille, Chrome 10 spokes Posts: 655 | From: North Carolina ... the land of Possum & Dumplings | Registered: Jan 2002
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Great story OC - although I haven't heard the fuel dump story either. And I agree with Dan & Teri - it just wouldn't be a new day without Hawkeye's and OC's posts.
Have a good one.
-------------------- Mark H.
Whoever said you couldn't run away from your problems obviously wasn't driving an SS. Posts: 942 | From: Santa Barbara and Ventura, CA | Registered: Feb 2000
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O.C. great story today - kinda a precursor to the Fast and Furious!
I like the photos, luckily I'm kinda young to "remember" them!
Dan, thanks for the kind words (Teri) U 2, I like to try and give everyone a "Good Morning" - just to let you know, that everywhere, there is someone who cares!
-------------------- Hawkeye: SSOA F98-C98
1998 SS - Black All Options - Mods Whisper Lid, K & N, Lou's Short Stick, Shift Light, Skip Shift, SLP Y, Borla, 4:10's, BMR STB, SLP SFCs, Granatelli MAF, Hypertech III, 160 Stat, Mallory Billet Pedals, Metco Aluminum LCAs,Fast Toys Ram Air Mod, Spohn Panhard Bar, BMR Torque Arm, free EGR mod,power antenna, BMR LCA brackets, Gentex Temp/Compass Auto Dim Mirror, AllMaxx Strobe and Wig Wag, BAER Eradispeed rotors,PPC Headers with Random Technology Hi Flow Cats, BMR Drive shaft Loop,FAST 78MM Throttle Body, FAST 78MM Composite Intake, Mobil 1 & lots of Zaino.
Wife & Best Friend Mary - copilot. Posts: 5558 | From: Windsor, Ontario. Canada | Registered: Feb 2000
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Howdy all. The flight from San Fran got rerouted to Seattle last night because the airport was socked in with fog...didn't get home until after 11pm Posts: 1143 | From: Portland, OR | Registered: Nov 2001
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