Fords at the summit report

Good seeing you to Rick glad you made it home safe,i was home by 6:45 pm now get some sleep.

Later Mark.

I just got home ,it's 3am..What a trip!! I had a blast and cashed in all 3 days. Only lost 1 round all weekend!! I was super impressed with the track and conditions considering all the rain!! A Totally Awesome weekend A special Thanks To Harold ,Mike ,and Big Shank for the pit stop!!!

Here's a pic of me and my little buddy in the Winner's circle....The King is Back [img][/img]

Had a BLAST Danny boy,and we sure had a good time w/TJ this weekend also. Get some rest man

Hey Rick, It was great to see you guys Dan and the other guy's from the form were great guy's, sure was a hot day on Sat. but the track was shut down half the time we were there.... Glad you made it home safe and let me know if he wants that 460 and if you want the fab valve covers.
Audie

Thats Freaking awsome letting your buddy share some of the Glory !!! Right on Dano !!!!

56Tbird wrote:Here's a pic of me and my little buddy in the Winner's circle....The King is Back [img][/img]

Good job!

My friend Bills double blowout and the roadside emergency crew, these guys are better than AAA. Bill was just amazed that all of you guys stopped and jumped right in helping him get it fixed, even loaning him tires to put on it when the one spare he had ended up having a leak.

Get him on this site Mike ,and tell him ....he witnessed the "True Brotherhood" of Ford lovers last night. So did I when you guys stopped and helped me!! Thanks to all of you for the help and a great weekend of hangin out and racing

Glad too see everyone one had a good time and made it home safe.This is a race that I plan on being at next year with the new car.I have been to Norwalk back in 1998 with Damon running in the North stars track team finals.That's been the best track set up that I've ever seen and the owners did everything they could to make it a great event.Even though it was cold and rainy all weekend.I think that race was in October.

We will have even more fun w/you Chuck. Me and the need help drinking the beer and applepie. Norwalk was voted best track in the nation last year by the FANS, and if you ever race there for a weekend you will know why. Billy Bader (owner) was working the starting line ALL weekend w/broom and never stopped. It has problems from time to time but when they do it always turns out better. This race is becoming like another Bash of the north. Hope we can get more forum racers each year.

Billy was out there? I would have had no clue, that's cool because a lot of track owners don't care. They just stay at home and let the money come in or something like that, I mean you have to love cars to open up a dragway. Expect me to race the f100 next year, but it makes me nervous thinking about it since its such a big track. I'm worried about not knowing what to do, but it worked out at my local track so it should be a piece of cake. I would hope to race some of you guys but I will be in the 11's, then I'll make a real drag car to race. Can't wait to race it!

I understand the owner of that track loves racing and is a damn good business man to boot.

dfree383 wrote:I understand the owner of that track loves racing and is a damn good business man to boot.

I heard the same thing.He loves the sport and would do anything he can too make it better.When the NHRA was up there the Bader family ran the event not the NHRA.They were there to enforce the rules that's all.I think that's cool as hell.

Mark Meyers, we met this guy and his friend at the last high school drags. He had this rail car there to get a chassis cert done and we talked to him while waiting for the gates to open, he lives in Warren MI and has a BBF in it. Dialed in at 7.35.


Here is his buddy that we talked to, he lives in Plymouth MI just a street over from us. We never would have known, we talked to them again at Norwalk. When we met them we were at Milan.


This red 65 belongs to our old auto teacher. He quit a year or two back, they weren't funding the program as much as they should have so he finally left. They bearly fund the program but yet they get a bunch of money for it, so wheres the money really going? He works at the community college I was talking about before, he got them into the high school nationals along with the high schools. I guess the other teacher that took his place is also leaving, then the other teacher quit. Next year auto shop might be gone Cool guy, all three teachers were/are. I made friends with the other teacher and I was always the person he went to when he wanted work done on his superbird.


Guy laid his carbon fiber drive shaft to rest at the starting line, laid it into the asphalt.


This guy launched and broke something in the front right, a pin broke or something because his wheel started wobbling. then when they went to push the car off it wouldn't come out of gear.

doesn't look like any spectators their ????

dfree383 wrote:doesn't look like any spectators their ????

Just a hand full in the stands, smaller event than I thought it would be. But hopefully it grows and becomes the new Ford bash.....the northern 1/4 version that is.

The guy in the Dockers and the green staff shirt is Bader jr.

bbf-falcon wrote:The guy in the Dockers and the green staff shirt is Bader jr.

Never would have known, it would be nice to shake his hand and thank him for always putting on a great show.

Lonewolf1970 wrote:

dfree383 wrote:I understand the owner of that track loves racing and is a damn good business man to boot.

I heard the same thing.He loves the sport and would do anything he can too make it better.When the NHRA was up there the Bader family ran the event not the NHRA.They were there to enforce the rules that's all.I think that's cool as hell.

I don't know if you guys know it or not but, the Bader family owned THREE rather large 1/4 mile drag race tracks and owned the entire IHRA santioning body.
They sold IHRA along with two of those tracks and then made their Norwalk venue an NHRA track.

He did not blow something in the front end. His Carbon Fiber driveshaft exploded took track personel an hour to clean it up due to the carbon fiber embeding itself in the racing surface

Dagwood wrote:

He did not blow something in the front end. His Carbon Fiber driveshaft exploded took track personel an hour to clean it up due to the carbon fiber embeding itself in the racing surface

I know, my description of the picture is ABOVE it. You must have read the description of the picture BELOW it.

In my post it says "Guy laid his carbon fiber drive shaft to rest at the starting line, laid it into the asphalt." above this picture.

https://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa56/bobalonius/Fords%20at%20the%20summit%202010/

Before this event I wanted to build a maverick drag car because there aren't many of them built in to drag cars. They are perfect for drag racing and I love them, but it was maverick central at Norwalk! I've never seen so many in my life, there were more mavericks than anything else.