Let's get this slant turbo project started. 71 Dart

Hi Bill,

When my dad was a kid he used to take the AC Transit bus from El Cerrito to Baylands to watch the drags. When I was in my early twenties(late 1980's) I used to deliver trophies to Sears Point and hang out to watch the races. Once in a great while I would drag one of my cars out there to see what it could do. Always fun even if I lost or turned a bad time. May have seen you run and never even knew it :)

Production at the Chronicle? Not sure if it was simialr or not but my dad is a retired printer. Never at a newspaper, mostly 4 color offset presses. Retired a few years ago when a handle on the press caught his pant cuff and he fell smack dab on his *** and brokes his back. He still will get under the hood to see what I am working on and is a whiz when it comes to cars. We both pit crewed for a rent a racer team in the late 80's. Mistubishi Mirages and Starions. IMSA and SCCA races. Those starion/conquests were fun little cars! Surprised it has taken me this long to put a turbo on a car of my own.

Mike

Bill Dedman said

From 1980 'til I retired in 2004, I lived in Hayward... So, I spent a lot of time at Fremont (Baylands?) when it was open, and later at Sears Point (Infineon?) and met a lot of racers in that 24 years. I worked in Production at the San Francisco Chronicle, but in downtown SF and later at the Union City plants.

So, Mike Loge (about my age) and Randy (his son) were both running A-Bodies (340's) in NHRA Stock Eliminator at the time, and still do, I believe. I lost touch with them years ago, but I had heard that Mike (and maybe Randy) lived in Antioch, now. Just thought you might have crossed paths with them at some point. I am pretty sure they have NO IDEA of the potential of a boosted slant six... LOL! But, they are MOPAR, through and through.... =P~

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