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Jon beat the Number 1 Qualifier in a nail biter first round and steals his 2nd bye run by to advance to 3rd round in stock. He also won in Superstock and advances to 2nd round. I won in stock putting up an .02 light to advance to 2nd round. I turned on the red in Superstock against former...

First round I drew former Division Champion Ryan Mangus. I was holding .035 on the tree and went down and took a .004 strip on his hard closing Nova with the 318 Aspen Wagon. Second round I had the misfortune to draw the former to Champion and current Division Champion Jody Lang. I put up a...

A couple rounds into the Race, Jon faced off against Former World Champion (And Family Friend) "Bad Brad" Burton. This was a rematch of the finals at Arizona Finals a couple years ago where Brad beat Jon in a very tight race. Jon held a tiny advantage on the start with a .007 light but Brad...

I raced former World Champion Ryan Mc Lannahan I put up a .022 light to his .020 light I dialed 11.08 and ran 11.086 (Dumped at 1275 Ft). He dialed 8.51 and ran 8.504 Next round my Hood latch broke against Troy Vetter who won the whole deal. Anyone have an extra Demon Hood latch 71/72 or...

I was out of the country, but my boy took his 68 small block street Valiant out to practice for next week at LVMS Saturday. He won Pro (Although he was Foot Braking) and got to Semis in Sportman. He is hoping to improve on his Stock/Superstock runner up in the finals of $10,000 to win race...

Well second round Jon face Bo Butner in Super Stock. It did not go Jon's way as Jon slipped all the way to a .06 to Bo's .03. To add insult to injury, I was beaten by his wife Randy Lynn Butner (Shipp) in Stock Eliminator. We both had nearly identical .02 lights and Randy legged it out to the...

Saturday they ran a Wally Class race in the Stock Classes for the only time this year in our Division out here in the West. My boy Jon entered D/SA which is a class that is generally dominated by Big Block early muscle cars. There were 8 entries in this class which was one of the most popular...

LVMS has not had a test and tune or a Bracket Race for about 5 months! They decided to have their annual Wally race at the last bracket series of the year. My boy got to the Semi and had a .002 Red light after a couple rounds of Double 00s We were up early thrashing on cars that had not been...

I was looking on the Harlan Sharp Rocker Descriptions and it has a special Rocker that only fits RPM and Trick Flow Big Block heads and nothing else. I have always just run a regular roller rocker for standard Mopar big block heads with no issue. The Geometry and fit looks fine and I have made...

Finally pried my April Dragster from my boy. Nice Picture of my Demon and write up = BUT they confused me with my son Jon!

NHRA Facebook Feb. 14 is a easy way to find it. Maybe someone can post it on here for me?

We just received a check from Mopar Performance for my son being "Top Finisher" in Super Stock at World Finals! We value and appreciate their support in Sportsman NHRA Racing. He borrowed my 1980 10 Second 1980 Aspen SS/LA 318 for this race. This is the former Paul Rossi Racecar that we...

I just posted on my Facebook = John Irving Boulder City Nevada Two Heads Up Races at World finals last Weekend with 340 A bodys with my son in one. I do not know how to post the link directly on here. Perhaps someone else does? It is on U Tube as well.

You can watch my 318 Aspen Wagon race a $200,000 New Ford Mustang on NHRA at the Vegas Nationals yesterday. They also filmed interviews with both drivers both before and after the race with their reactions. My boy says right now the easiest way to see it right now is NHRA Facebook posted...