I've always thought these were bad ass.
Nice cumulonimbus incus.Took this picture on a morning ride.
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Went to Baytown TX years ago, when the funny cars took off car alarms in the parking lot went off.
The first time seeing top fuel is something you won't forget.. I recommend it to everyone with even borderline gear head tendencies. We usually go on qualifying days because it's half full at best. And we don't care who wins. We're just there to see the spectacle. And one hell of a spectacle it is.Went to Baytown TX years ago, when the funny cars took off car alarms in the parking lot went off.
Many years back a buddy of mine called me and asked if I could go over to Bumbera's to look at a car they couldn't get running. A pro stock C5 Corvette that would crank but not fire. This was the owner of Lupe Tortilla's car. After a bit of diagnostics I needed to rule out the PCM, and the only spare I could get my hands on quickly was my wife's (girlfriend in those years) Camaro. But that would leave her stranded at work before lunch time, so he said jump in and we ran across to the other side of Hwy 6 to his restaurant, picked up lunch for her, and traded for her PCM. His car fired up just fine with her PCM which was great, but I also determined that his PCM was actually fine. The class he ran had a custom firmware that also required a custom wiring harness because they cleverly remapped the pins so you couldn't cheat by swapping in a tuned PCM. He had prior problems and they replaced the wiring harness with a stock one, which is why it ran with a factory PCM.View attachment 473724
We saw this car go by in St Louis and spent an hour or two searching the grounds for their pit to talk to them. It didn't mean much to anyone in IL, but maybe some folks down here will get it. Read the sponsor above the back wheel..
Plus the flames during nighttime qualifying, awesome. In the 60's my friend had a top fuel dragster, at the track every weekend. I mixed fuel, packed parachutes and sometimes drove the push car (no starter motors then and no reverse gear).The first time seeing top fuel is something you won't forget.. I recommend it to everyone with even borderline gear head tendencies. We usually go on qualifying days because it's half full at best. And we don't care who wins. We're just there to see the spectacle. And one hell of a spectacle it is.