DRAW NEEDS AUCTION ITEMS

The Drag Racing Association of Women needs items for their 19th annual auction fundraiser at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, IL on Saturday, May 22. Finish up that spring cleaning and send any items you can spare to DRAW Auction c/o Rosalee Noble, 4 Hance Dr., Charleston, IL 61920. Please mark your contribution clearly on both the inside and outside of the package so that the item can be properly credited to you. Be sure to print out this form and put it inside the package. Shipped items need to arrive by May 11, 2004. Items may also be dropped off at the DRAW booth, located on Manufacturers' Midway at any national event, or at the auction site at Route 66 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the day of the auction. For more information contact Rosalee Noble at csrn@eiu.edu. [5-7-2004]

MR CAPPS' WILD RIDE

Ron Capps sent the Agent a photo of his new toy, an all steel '31 Ford coupe. Of course it's got a Chevy ZZ4 aluminum head crate motor, but this engine came as a special year end bonus from former Exec Director of GM Motorsports, Herb Fishel, in '98 when Capps had five national wins and two of those wins were over John Force's Mustang. The motor has a Whipple supercharger boosting the horsepower on the dyno to 535 hp with 540 lbs of torque and the rear end is one of

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Strange Engineering's bulletproof models, with good reason. Capps' buddy Alan Budnik provided the old school-looking wheels.

Famed rod builder Roy Brizio has just finished the coupe after Ron's dad originally purchased the car when Capps was a sophomore in high school. "It was the car my dad taught me to weld on," said Capps, but he swears his new ride won't be a trailer queen and that his wife might even drive it to the market occasionally.

Now, if the Agent can just get the Skoal Racing pilot up to L.A. to run some time trials at Irwindale Dragstrip on a Thursday night. [5-7-2004]

THIRTY-TWO FUNNY CARS AT THE WORLD SERIES?

The Agent hears that Scott "The Great" Gardner is booking in 32 Funny Cars for this year's World Series of Drag Racing at Cordova Dragway. To quote the late Steve Evans, "It will be a fiberglass forest, folks."

Rumor (and the Agent stresses the word rumor here) has it that a few West Coast based Nostalgia Fuel Coupes may make the big go East for the 51st World Series. (That's one more than the 50th U.S. Nationals for those of you keeping score.) The Friday-Saturday race is held annually the weekend before the U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis, which would make it Aug. 27-28, 2004. [5-7-2004]