HORAN SETS RECORD

SoCal’s Dan Horan Jr. plowed through the Nostalgia Funny Car field at the Goodguys Nitro Nationals held at Infineon Raceway over the weekend defeating Larry Pettit in the final. Horan qualified second behind Pettit’s Mustang, but Dan’s opening round 6.056 232.83 victory over Mike Savage netted the quickest pass ever in Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car. (Darr Hawthorne photo)  [4-25-2005]

THE AGENT SCREWED UP

Agent 1320 reported a while back that former AHRA/IHRA Pro Stock racer Jerry Yeoman was having a new Pro Stocker car built at Larry Jeffer's race car shop in Missouri. Wrong, wrong, wrong. . .Yeoman is having Jeffer's build him one of his '59 'Vette Pro Mods and will have a nitrousized big, big, big block Chevy under the bonnet. Sorry for the screw-up. [4-25-2005]

BURK WAS WRONG. . .SORTA

One of the Agent's sources called to clarify an item in the current Burk's Blast in which Burk wondered why any of Detroit's Big Three (with the exception of GM) didn't display current model cars on the midway. According to the Agent's source, when NHRA signed GM as

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the official car there was a stipulation in the contract that kept Ford and Mopar production cars off of the midway. Show cars using Ford and Mopar aftermarket parts are the sole exception accord to the operative. Sounds reasonable to the Agent.

Along that same train of thought, word out of Ford is that they are absolutely selling as many Mustangs as they are making. The Agent bets they are still taking orders though. [4-25-2005]

HANS REPS TO BE AT BRISTOL AND ATLANTA

HANS tech Jay Braxton called to tell the Agent that he will be attending the NHRA national events at Bristol Dragway and Atlanta Dragway to answer any questions racers may have about the device and may try to have a seminar at the track. Jay, the Agent suggests you also attend a few IHRA national events to service those racers.  [4-25-2005]

A FUEL FUNNY OPERATION FOR FREDDIE NEELY?

Agent 1320 hears that Georgia racer "Fast" Freddie Neely may be getting close to sighing a deal that will allow him to race at 10-12 NHRA events in 2005. Our spy tells us that Neeley and drag racing's "Bama Gang" are even talking to a sponsor that would put the popular veteran back on the tour full time. [4-25-2005]

TOP FUEL RACER BILL MULLINS COMING BACK

Agent 1320 has learned that Alabama racer and former Top Fuel racer Bill Mullins is returning to drag racing but he won't be doing it in a 300-inch Top Fuel car. The Agent got a report that Mullins has built himself an Outlaw 10.5 Mustang and has been testing it at Huntsville Dragway. Mullins is on the North side of sixty years old and the word from the Agent's sources is that he still has the drag racing need for speed. [4-25-2005]