Northwest Mopar Nationals.

[rp23g7]

The Northwest Mopar Nationals were at Pacific Raceways in Kent this weekend. I went Sat, today is rainy and i assume they were rained out.

Anyone else go Sat?

This is my little review.

I forgot my camera, so no pictures, sorry.

There was a nice collection of cars, suprisingly a lot of trucks, and a lot of new stuff.

The new Challenger was there, and made a few passes. It was the first one i had seen in person, and actually, i wasnt too impressed.

Dont get me wrong, i have always been a die hard mopar or no car person, all my cars have been mopars, but for $55,000, i would buy something else.

Compared to a 70,71 Challengers crisp lines, there is too much bulk to it. It had a hemi in it, made a few 14 second passes.

I was pretty impressed by the Magnums, and new Chargers, at the beginning they were beating a few old school cars.

There were quite a few diesel Ram trucks there, and i had no idea they could run 14 second quarter miles.

There were 2 Viper Coupes there, they were beating cars in the begining, one broke, i left before i could see what the other one got matched up with.

There were 3 or 4 altered wheel base old school cars there, one was a 7 second car, forgot its name.

There were quite a few cars on display,

a beautiful 57 Custom Royal Lancer D500 from BC.

I talked to a guy that had taken a 69 Dart Convert and made a 70-71 Swinger convert out of it. He had taken the front clip and then took the rear 1/4 of the quarter panel, and sectioned it in to the body, really a nice job.

I got my wife to admit that Sublime is better looking in person than in pictures, and i think i have settled on Amazing Grape when i paint my Scamp, its a lot brighter than Plumb crazy, looks really good on a 70 Cuda i was looking at.

Any one else go? I left at 7, did i miss anything good after that?

 

[dart4forte]

The Northwest Mopar Nationals were at Pacific Raceways in Kent this weekend. I went Sat, today is rainy and i assume they were rained out.

Anyone else go Sat?

This is my little review.

I forgot my camera, so no pictures, sorry.

There was a nice collection of cars, suprisingly a lot of trucks, and a lot of new stuff.

The new Challenger was there, and made a few passes. It was the first one i had seen in person, and actually, i wasnt too impressed.

Dont get me wrong, i have always been a die hard mopar or no car person, all my cars have been mopars, but for $55,000, i would buy something else.

Compared to a 70,71 Challengers crisp lines, there is too much bulk to it. It had a hemi in it, made a few 14 second passes.

I was pretty impressed by the Magnums, and new Chargers, at the beginning they were beating a few old school cars.

There were quite a few diesel Ram trucks there, and i had no idea they could run 14 second quarter miles.

There were 2 Viper Coupes there, they were beating cars in the begining, one broke, i left before i could see what the other one got matched up with.

There were 3 or 4 altered wheel base old school cars there, one was a 7 second car, forgot its name.

There were quite a few cars on display,

a beautiful 57 Custom Royal Lancer D500 from BC.

I talked to a guy that had taken a 69 Dart Convert and made a 70-71 Swinger convert out of it. He had taken the front clip and then took the rear 1/4 of the quarter panel, and sectioned it in to the body, really a nice job.

I got my wife to admit that Sublime is better looking in person than in pictures, and i think i have settled on Amazing Grape when i paint my Scamp, its a lot brighter than Plumb crazy, looks really good on a 70 Cuda i was looking at.

Any one else go? I left at 7, did i miss anything good after that?

What was you impression of the event?

 

[dart4forte]

Was that swinger vert yellow? If so that would be Ed, owner of Wildcat Auto Wreaking.

 

[rp23g7]

The Swinger was B-5 blue with a black top, I didnt ask the guys name, sorry,

I had not been to Pacific Raceway for about 5 yrs actually, just busy and i live about 50 miles away now. It was a good turn out, I had heard a few yrs ago, they were going to remodel and change the complex.

The NHRA was complaining that they would stop coming unless they remodeled the place, and they have changed it since i was there last.

They are finally changing the direction of the dragstrip, ever since SIR was made, they have had to stop the racing in late after noon due to the sun set.

For those of you who have never been there, the strip runs East-West, and the sun is straight down the track at sunset, you cant see a thing.