I apologize for not making it to the cleanup party last night, but I was picking up the latest pony in my little stable. And yes… it will definitely and proudly sport big’ol DMS logos.
I am so tickled about getting this dragster. The Beloved and I used to race very similar cars to this one right up to the very last day SpeedZone was open. I think we were actually the last people to race them before the shutdown. It was our thing… fast old people kicking literally everybody’s asses every time we raced. Darla and I had a fierce and hard fought competition to get lowest ET, and it wound up that she was exactly .001 second faster than me. And what chapped my ass most is that with the shutdown I would never get another chance for redemption.
But all that changed this week. My Nephew found this car for sale on facebook market and sent me a message. Five seconds later I was in contact with the seller and long story short… (too late!), I bought the car.
He bought it from a guy who bought it at the auction after SZ closed. It was the non-operational dragster that sat outside the entry to the Top Eliminator track.
Originally I bought it as a memento and to be another piece of wall art for the big hangar I’ll be building soon. BUT! when I got there I learned that the car wasn’t one of the attraction cars, but was an actual dragster rolling chassis, (hot engine had already been sold), and was track tech certified. It’s a real dragster!
That didn’t really sink in until the drive home. So I’ve decided to scan the old original fiberglass body parts and fab new ones in my own style and put the originals on the hangar wall next to the 2 crushed Opel GT bodies and The Beloved and I will soon be racing again! But this time we won’t be limited to going 70mph in 200’. This is gonna be so much fun! We’ve talked for years about buying a rolling chassis and dropping a little Chevy 350 in it and having a ball at the local tracks. And that is exactly what we’re gonna do.
Just wanted to share that bit of good news.
DD/Whiskey
