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Vintage Drag Racing qualifying was stout with 28 front
motored Top Fuel dragsters, mostly running in the low sixes and lead
by Gerry Steiner's afternoon pass of 5.972 at 247.32 mph as the only
sub-six second pass. Lee Jennings picked up the number two spot in Top
Fuel by clocking a 6.112. Jennings, in his Stirling Chassis, California
Trucker V dragster took home the huge event trophy by defeating Jason
Howell in the final, running a 6.632.
Winner of Competition Eliminator at this year's Sears
Point Fram Autolite NHRA Nationals, Wayne Ramay won the CHRR Junior
Fuel title, Nostalgia Eliminator was won by Scott Christleib; the A/Gas
victor was Ed Cooper; and Bill Thatcher took home the trophy in A/FX
in his '67 Ford.
After Saturday's day of qualifying, veteran announcer
and television presenter Dave McClelland moved to the starting line
to present the afternoon's Track Cruise loaded with '47 Chevy's, '33
Willys, '55, '56, &'57 Chevy's, Studes, vintage golf carts, Deuce Coupes
and HiBoy Roadsters.
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Mike Kuhl's dragster smokes 'em.
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CACKLEFEST
It was then time for Cacklefest, where drivers and crews
of the past bring out their famous dragsters and parade them before
the grateful masses, a tribute that these cars still get out there and
run. Saturday's Cacklefest was "awesome." Dragsters and push trucks
started their rides by pushing down the return road and resting behind
the starting line.
Wave after wave of swoopy, front engine dragsters fired
to the cheers of the crowd pressed against the fences... the Freight
Train, The Northwind, The Vagabond, Dwight Salisbury in Rocky Childs'
The Addict, the Howard Cams Rattler all made the turn, popping and cracking
followed by pick-ups full of crew members grinning ear to ear.
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