It seems everyone wants in on this what’s new thing!
Including nostalgia funny car standout Nathan Bugg. They
have a new-to-them 125” piece of pipe up from 120”
with a Monza body. A new paint scheme and possibly some
new sponsors will round out their program. They ask you
fans to check out their website www.lilnate.com.
Look who’s checking in next, a fuel altered guy. Not
just any fuel altered guy, but Dave Hough with the Nanook
AA/FA. His news is that NHRA will bring the highly popular
altereds back for four national event exhibitions in 2005:
Atlanta, Indy, Dallas and the October Las Vegas event. These,
coupled with their 12 race match race schedule, could very
well make 2005 the year of the fuel altered.
The folks on the Gruzen Racing team are trying to become
the overachievers of the nostalgia set. Where some of us
can barely keep one car running competitively, these nuts
are going to run three! First, they have updated the Mighty
Mouse Modified roadster with a chromoly roll cage and shed
what they say is “several hundred pounds.” Yikes!
This beast will see Nostalgia Eliminator One (NE-1) duty.
Also back after a season-long hiatus will be the Merciless
Mouse (do I see a theme?) AA/FA. This entry features a small
block Chevy on nitro for power and a fiat body. And the
final Gruzen entry for 2005 (at least at press time) will
be the Malicious Mouse, the blown alky cousin of one of
those other mouse things that they do.
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Another good friend of us here at Getting Nostalgic is
the Frantic Fueler AA/FD team out of Chitown. That’s
right, those guys that run the Devil’s own 426 for
power are back for 2005 with tons of dates. Some of the
highlights will be the Drag Expo and World of Wheels, an
Autorama appearance and of course the Blue Suede Cruise
at Norwalk Raceway park. The car remains basically the same
with clutch guru Bob Brooks coming onboard for a little
bell housing voodoo. They would dig it if you checked their
website www.compufab.com.
Dale Pulde checked in to let us know he has no firm commitments
for 2005 regarding the nostalgia scene. He will be plenty
busy at the beginning of the year with Pluegar and Schumacher,
but after that, who knows. With the rules for the nostalgia
funnies looking to stay data-recorder-free for 2005, someone
could do a whole lot worse than pick up Dale, at least as
a consultant. His tuning abilities and insights into what
it takes to drive one of these things are invaluable.
You know once you start on this stuff it sure is hard to
stop but, that’s exactly what I’ve got to do.
Next time, I’ll have lots more heavyweights weighing
in with what’s new in their respective camps. Sorry
to those that wrote and didn’t get in this time…good
things come to those who wait…I think. And you know
what? I didn’t even get to talk about what’s
brewing in the Gaynor/Utterback top secret Skankwerks compound.
Tune in next time, folks!
