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Yesterday there was a short blurb on the local news about it. There is a new owner who used money from a legal settlement to buy the place and spiff it up. Said they had a good turnout, more than they expected, impressive considering the HOT weather. Showed cars and bikes going down the track...

Good. It could use it.

I spent a lot of time at GLD in the 70s. Nothing like watching nitro cars run at night, very good memories.

After reading all the responses about dumbass comments I'm amazed that I've rarely had any. Must be something about a shiny red convertible that causes almost everybody to say "nice car", even if they have no clue what it is. A lot of people ask what year it is but not what it is. Some people...

In 1975 I was partnered in a drag car that had 13:1 comp. We put some 130 octane avgas in the car, really perked it up. There was a small airport on the way to the track, we'd just back up to the fence and they'd fill er up, no problem. In the fall that year the guy at the airport said that...

That Maverick with the small block Chevy was their first entry in Modified Production, then they moved on to a mid 60s Corvette still in M/P. Small cubic inch high RPM engines, used to love watching and listening to all those cars run.

Personally I think he was a victim of politics when he got let go at Al-Anabi. Something else that has been going on for a while is the age thing. Wouldn't be the first time that a driver got moved along in favor of a younger, more marketable fresh face. Larry's starting to get on in years...

Nitrous seems to make either spectacular power or spectacular explosions.....

The A-body convertibles had an odd shaped piece of about .25 thick steel inside the rockers to add stiffness. It has kind of the same profile as the rocker does.

Very interesting project. Good thing that car has that cage so all the torque doesn't twist it all to hell. Good thing it's going to be a drag car not a daily driver, you'd have some hearing loss after a little while. About 20 years back I swapped an 89 engine like you have into a 75 B300...

That's some scary looking stuff.

I had an unbroken streak of going there from 77 to 07, missed a couple years since because of health issues, it's like nothing else, the biggest, longest event of the year. Back in the 70s and 80s it was more of a wild and crazy time than it is now, they have cleaned it up a bit to make it...

I was at RT 66 on Friday and Sat. They had a decent turnout. The stands there are so tall they never fill up. Plus the other thing you don't really see on TV is all the people lined up along the fence, at least 6-8 people deep, if all those people were in a seat it would look a bit more filled up.

Like the look of the car. Like wagons a lot too. Why is the 2:74 gear trans a problem? Seems like lower gearing would help launch better. Just wondering.

That magazine has been coming out every 4-6 months for 3-4 years now, it's usually pretty good. I really like it because reminds me of stuff I saw back when I started going to the drags in the late 60s. Thanks for mentioning that there's a new one out, I'll have to go pick it up.

NHRA had import drags a few years back. There was also an independent import drag series as well. They did OK for a couple years then started fading out. Guess the ADD crowd lost interest and moved on to whatever the next big thing was.

In Sept. of 69 I bought a new 69 Dart, 318, auto, 2:71 gears. It came with 700:13 tires on it. I got some slotted chrome 14" wheels and G70 for the front and J70 tires for the rears. In March of 70 I took it to Oswego, Ill. and ran it. There was still snow on the ground in places. It ran 17:20s...

Jim, you're a lucky guy, could've been much worse, hope you heal up OK. I was at Union Grove, WI. in the early 70s and saw the Little Red Wagon lose a trans. He got it stood up right off the line, made it about 100 ft. and the trans exploded big-time. There were pieces big and small flying...

Must have been a big meet of some kind, lot of big-name cars from all over the country. The red and black 57 Chevy called Shake Rattle & Run is from the Chicago area. It's still around and being raced by the family of the original owner. It's been a race car virtually it's whole life, being put...