MISC PRO MOD ITEMS FROM THE AGENT'S NOTEBOOK

Agent 1320 hears that Pro Mod promoter Kenny Nowling is putting together an eighth-mile Outlaws vs. AMS Pro Mods race at Carolina Dragway for the first weekend in October. Details are currently sketchy, but there is a $25,000 purse and it will be a shootout format. More later.

The Agent hears rumblings that "200-mph Bill" Kuhlmann may be returning to the scene with a new car. Kuhlmann has been building the new "Kuhlmann Kompound" which includes a new race car shop. Sources tell the Agent that Kuhlmann would like to be the first Pro Mod to break the 200-mph barrier in the eighth mile.

Agent 1320 received this spy photo supposedly taken at Jeffers Race Cars of a '59 'Vette being built for a Missouri outlaw Pro Mod racer. We can't tell you who he is but he runs a screw blower combination and a Lenco-glide.

The Agent hears that the Barklage brothers Zach and Cody are going to race at the CMTS Outlaw Pro Mod race Saturday, August 14th at Gateway International in St, Louis. Zach is currently third in points in the AMS Staff Leasing NHRA Pro Mod series points. Evidently the eighth-mile series that pays the winner $2500 is starting to attract some of the touring IHRA and NNRA touring Pros. The Agent thinks maybe the $100 for Top Speed and Low ET that Drag Racing Online posts may be the attraction.

Evidently nitrous racer Billy Harper didn't make some of his peers happy when he uncorked a 6.16 in qualifying at the recently completed IHRA national event in Canada. Seems like at the time a blown car was on the pole, about a tenth in front of the closest nitrous car and the nitrous contingency liked it that way. Not Mr. Harper. He fired up all four stages of nitrous and laid down the 6.16/229 lap that made the rest of the nitrous competitors turn on their third stages to keep up. They did but, according to several sources, they weren't happy about it. Seems like turning on the third and fourth stages is hard on engine parts. [8-5-2004]

ORANGE COUNTY TOWER CORRECTION

Drag racing's elder statesman and semi-retired announcer extraordinaire Dave McCelland dropped the Agent a note to say that an earlier 1320 note about the old round tower recently destroyed and replaced at Tulsa being a copy of the old Orange County tower wasn't correct. Actually the tower at Orange County was built after the one at Tulsa. The Agent blames the error on his youth -- not being old enough to have been at those tracks to watch the towers being built like Mr. McClelland. [8-5-2004]