I remember the first time my dad and a few uncles took me to Houston to see the NHRA nationals. I'll never forget that first time seeing the Top Fuel dragsters run. I was hooked from then on. Then at about 10, my uncle opened a small shop in town (New Braunfels, TX) and my parents would let me hang out over there on the weekends. I bugged the living ***** out of my uncle and the guys by asking a million questions nonstop! But I learned. That went on for a few years.
Then when I moved back in with my Mom, after my parent’s divorce, my uncle had a friend who used to race a 210” Top Fuel Altered dragster in the NHRA. He retired, but he wanted to keep running the dragster at National events and other misc. exhibition events. So I was taught to wrench on fuel motors at a pretty young age. His son would drive the dragster at some of the local NHRA events and some of the HRP NHRA nationals. Later after I got out of the military, they asked me if I wanted to drive the car at a IHRA exhibition at a new local track (San Antonio Raceway). I said yes of course, but the IHRA ended up not allowing him run it. The dragster has just sat for years now. He still starts it up on alcohol every now and then.
Then when I was about 22, I got to go to my first Hot Summer Nights car show in Reno, NV. If you ever get a chance, GO, it’s awesome.
Anyway, I think it was the 7,000 HP Top Fuel cars that initially fed my disease – gearheaditis.
What started it for you?
Then when I moved back in with my Mom, after my parent’s divorce, my uncle had a friend who used to race a 210” Top Fuel Altered dragster in the NHRA. He retired, but he wanted to keep running the dragster at National events and other misc. exhibition events. So I was taught to wrench on fuel motors at a pretty young age. His son would drive the dragster at some of the local NHRA events and some of the HRP NHRA nationals. Later after I got out of the military, they asked me if I wanted to drive the car at a IHRA exhibition at a new local track (San Antonio Raceway). I said yes of course, but the IHRA ended up not allowing him run it. The dragster has just sat for years now. He still starts it up on alcohol every now and then.
Then when I was about 22, I got to go to my first Hot Summer Nights car show in Reno, NV. If you ever get a chance, GO, it’s awesome.
Anyway, I think it was the 7,000 HP Top Fuel cars that initially fed my disease – gearheaditis.
What started it for you?