Yesterday I attended the Funny Car Nationals at Knoll-Gas Motorsports Park at 131 Martin, Michigan. It was more like a trip back in time. They had front engine diggers, Nostalgia Funny Cars, Supercharged nutso Hot Rods from Heck, and a ton of good old fashioned drag racers. I took my three girls, ages 10, 8, and 6. That alone is an experience, but they have attended the IHRA Northern Nats and NHRA Route 66 Joliet races with me. They know the drill and the thrill. The one thing that I love about...

John Rogers

15 September 2007

Roxy. ie: Boss, *****in', Sweet, Cool, Detailed, A Fine Piece....

Kids... Street Racing IS BAD... I know this, but when I was young and dumb....

Katella Ave between Valley View and Knott.... two lanes each direction, about a mile and a quarter stretch through the middle of strawberry fields...

We used to run there after work a couple of nights a week... see, there were four gas stations at Valley View and Chapman... the...

Karl Stalcup

13 September 2007

Guess I got spoiled living in Garden Grove in the 60's and 70's... wasn't a weekend that there wasn't a Nitro show... be it Rails, AA/FA, Jr. Fuels, or Floppers...

And I became Addicted to Floppers...

69 sticks out to me, that was the first year Dad would drop me off at the track a 8AM and come pick me up around 11pm.... you could do that back in the 'Leave it to Beaver' days... there I was, a 14 years old, 6'1, and a 140 pounds (I've...

Karl Stalcup

12 September 2007

Getting a little out of order here, let's take a pass on the '68 mfg meet for a couple of minutes and fast forward to the mid-seventies...

Fox Hunts... Put butts in the seats, but took away a Saturday at the Drags from Something I'd take a date to, into a place I wouldn't want to be unarmed... guess my take was it became 'the thing to do'... oh, yeah, there's cars there too. People didn't go for the race, it was just the Hot Lick, The Place to BE......

Karl Stalcup

I was going to wait two months to post another blog, but what the heck. In my last entry I mentioned how much I spent on stuff at Indy. Let me say that while some of it was shirts and hats, but included in that figure was a pair of Oakley Hijinx I purchased from Donnie Faulkner at the Rolling O store. Those alone were about $160, and well worth it. I also bought three shirts for my girls. I picked up the "Like Father, Like Daughter" John and Ashley Force shirts. I then waited in line and...

John Rogers