December 19, 2025 • 16 mins
In this episode, motoring historian Jon Summers recounts his experience at the Redwood Rally Drag 'n' Drive event held in Oregon in September 2025. He describes the unique format of Drag 'n' Drive events, which involve driving street-legal drag racing cars between multiple drag strips over several days. Jon highlights the grassroots ingenuity and convivial spirit among participants, as well as the rugged, scenic environment of Oregon. He shares anecdotes and memorable encounters, particularly emphasizing the familial and community aspects of the event. The episode features detailed observations about the different cars, their modifications, and the overall atmosphere, making it a vivid and passionate recount of his adventure.
===== (Oo---x---oO) ===== 00:00 Overview of the Redwood Rally 00:50 Explaining the Drag 'n' Drive Concept 01:43 Challenges of Street Legal Dragsters 03:14 Grassroots Passion and Ingenuity 04:11 Anecdotes from the Oregonian Experience 09:08 Memorable Cars and Builds 14:05 Final Thoughts and Reflections 15:55 Closing Remarks and Sponsorship====================
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Jon Summers is the Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. On his show he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, motoring travel. Copyright Jon Summers, The Motoring Historian. This content is also available via jonsummers.net. This episode is part of the Motoring Podcast Network and has been republished with permission.
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(00:00):
John Summers is the motoring historian.
He was a company car thrashing technologysales rep that turned into a fairly inept
sports bike rider hailing from California.
He collects cars and bikesbuilt with plenty of cheap and
fast and not much reliable.
On his show, he gets together withvarious co-hosts to talk about new
and old cars driving motorbikes,motor racing, and motoring travel.
(00:32):
Good day.
Good morning, good afternoon.
It is John Summers the motoring historian.
Today I am gonna review, uh, an event.
I went and spectated backin September of 2025.
It's now December calledThe Redwood Rally.
Dragon Drive.
So you might not be familiarwith what a Dragon Drive.
Event is, and when I've explained,it'll be obvious, but it, it's
(00:56):
not immediately obvious to it.
It's uh, if you are European, theprinciple is similar to our kind of stage
rallies in that what we're saying isthis is an event where you might start
in one city, drive to a local drag strip,compete at the drag strip, and then the
following day drive to another drag strip.
(01:19):
Where the same thing takes place.
Then the following day,this happens again.
So in the case of the event that I wentto this, uh, Redwood rally, in the case
of the Redwood rally, I think it was fivedrag strips in six days, but they did
a loop coming back to the original one.
Anyway, I'll put a link in tothe website so you can go there
(01:39):
and, and have a look at it.
But I guess if youhaven't already got there.
The parallel with rallying is that it isall very well to have a car which can go
around the muddy rally stage really well,or in this case, get down the quarter mile
or even for some of the events, eighthof a mile, get down that really well.
(01:59):
But can it then drive a coupleof hundred miles to the next.
Y event towing all yourequipment as well, right?
Has to carry all of the equipment as well.
So on the face of it, for thoseof you that, that aren't steeped
in the world of motor sport, thatmight not seem very big deal.
But the more attenuated a racingcar becomes, the less practical it
(02:21):
becomes for everyday kind of stuff.
And most dragsters are not street legal,so these cars have to be street legal.
We are not in Germany.
It's not like they have to be TUVapproved and it is out west here
and there is a sort of wild west.
Remember there's no MOT out west.
If you're British, there'sno annual vehicle inspection.
(02:43):
So what that means is if you drivea car without turn signals, if in
California, if they pull you over.
They can ticket you forit not having indicators.
So that would be what they call a fixit ticket, where you have a certain
amount of time to fix it and prove toa policeman that your vehicle now has
indicators on it or whatever else.
It's lacking, but you're not gonnahave any issue for corrosion.
(03:06):
You're not gonna have any issuearound, you know, dragging a car
of the junkyard and, and putting aturbo LS motor under the hood, which.
Appears to be what a lot of peopledid, and really this was the
takeaway for the event for me was,for me was the really, there were
some awesome, awesome cars just.
(03:29):
Awesome builds in a reallygrassroots kind of way, and these
vehicles are being used, right?
So you're not at a show and there'snot people, you know, polishing them.
No.
These cars are being raced downthe track and then driven 200 miles
and then again and again and again.
(03:49):
It has the feeling if you've beento a vintage sports car club meeting
in in England or Wales or Scotland,it has that kind of grassroots.
The people involved here are reallypassionate, skillful people, and it's
really a pleasure to sort of piggyback onon their event in the way that that I did.
(04:11):
I'm gonna share one anecdote andI should say, I wanna preface
this by saying that the Oregonian.
Is a breed apart.
And I think if you know, as as I'vebeen on the West coast 20 years now, the
Path West is called the Oregon Trail.
You came to Oregon and when we think ofOregon, we think of all of the trees.
(04:33):
And this is pretty much what I saw.
But driving around on these seven,on these six drag strips or five
drag strips or wherever it was,I only went to three or four.
But driving around Oregon in the waythat I did before, I really got a
sense of, of what the state looks like.
But that rugged environment breeds aparticularly rugged kind of individual,
and that particular kind of ruggedindividual builds a particular
(04:54):
kind of hot rod it seems to me.
And.
That was a pretty awesome thing to behold.
Now I have a excuse of a beard.
It's sort of halfway between stubbleand a beard, but my beard did not
pass muster in this world of big bushybeards and Ls swapped Fox Mustangs
that still had their original interiorsbut had no hood, and were getting down
(05:19):
the drag stripping under 10 seconds.
And then, you know, you see theguy with his wife or girlfriend at
the Taco Bell eating dinner withit parked up outside afterwards.
I mean, that is what this,this event is all about.
Now you don't get that at theBSCC in, in quite the same way.
So, so this is all of the.
(05:40):
Mechanical skill and compromise thatit takes to keep a rally car going,
but in this amazing wild West Vistaand its Camaros and Mustangs and
the paint's bad and nobody cares.
Oh, it is.
Bloody awesome.
And I just wanna say at this point,these drag and drive events, they're
(06:00):
generally creditors being invented byDave Fryberger at Hot Rod Magazine.
And I have to say, Ihappen to love the guy.
I know that not everybody does, but the.
Reality is the bloke inventedsomething, made up a concept, which
really gives people a reason to builda certain really cool kind of car.
(06:24):
And just sticking on the theme of theseawesome Oregonian folk apart, on the
last day at Medford Drag Strip, I parkedup facing the track and I, I was tired
because I'd been on the road and I'ddone a lot of driving before I did like.
1700 miles in four days,including a couple of days where
(06:45):
I was just at the drag strip.
Yeah.
I mean, sure it's in a tundrawith heated seats and and so on.
But I walked all around.
I, I'd got hot, I'd eaten the crap food.
I was just sat in the truckmaced, watching the cars roll
down the strip on the last day.
And, uh, I was looking to the right of me.
There was a, uh, G body, black one thathad an LS swap and pizza cutters and,
(07:09):
you know, mini tubbed and, uh, parachute.
And I'd watched them swap thetransmission on one day at the side
of the track on a portable lift.
And I'd watched that same car go like 974 at like 141 miles an hour or something.
Ridiculous.
Right.
And I'm sat there.
(07:29):
And I basically, I watched the guy,big beard check lumberjack shirt, pull
his Silverado forward, get it hookedup onto two axle flatbed trailer,
and uh, he puts the ramps down.
And then I'm.
Looking at him off the left hand sideof the truck and the regal, I think
it's a Buick Regal, but whateverhis little G body with the turbo Ls
(07:53):
in it, I hear it fire up and I lookover and it's his lad sat in it.
And this lad can't havebeen older than Ollie.
And his lad puts it in reverse and I watchhim back it up around the back of the
tundra and then I watch him line it up.
I'm thinking to myself, oh,his dad's gonna hot pin now and
drive it onto the back ramp.
No, his dad is stood in themiddle of the trailer backing
(08:14):
him on, and I'm just like, wow.
Firstly the build on the car.
Secondly.
The fact that you'vetaught the kid to drive it.
But thirdly, the fact that youare stood right in front of him.
So this, if this kid unleashesthis nine second monster, it's just
gonna pin you against the trailer.
But no, you trust andhave schooled the kid.
(08:36):
Well enough to be able to do that.
So that was a little bit of the blastof the world West and, and this, this
is taking place against the Vistaof Medford drag strip, which is a
downhill, and then the runoff is uphilland it's just the Oregonian forest.
And that's like, you know, justlike the black forest is just.
(08:56):
Endless cheese as, as, as faras, uh, as far as you can see.
And it was all right in Septemberwhen I was there, but my God, you
would not, I would not want tobe there in, uh, in wintertime.
The other really standout imagefor me, there was a brownish.
I mean 68 69 Chevelle Body style.
(09:18):
But I think it was, um, that Canadian onecalled it the, do they call it a Beaumont?
Is that the name?
I'm not really sure.
But it has like a centersplit in the grill, but it's
basically a 68 69 Chevelle.
And one of the most memorable imagesfor me was as the sun was going down and
you're rolling across this like Oregonian.
Endless forest kind of, uh,kind of landscape with the case.
(09:42):
Had the crew set about 65 oror 70, and this, uh, Beaumont
Chevelle affair in the center line.
Headlights on, came on by andit's uh, a guy and his wife were
doing it with their granddaughter.
'cause I heard the grandmotherand the granddaughter.
Talking one time when the car did apass, I'll include pictures of the car.
(10:04):
The car was an awesome car.
And that whole nature of doing the eventthat, you know, you got like the picnic
basket and the child's seat on theback seat of this like LS swapped, you
know, I guess this, this Chavelle wasdoing, if I remember correctly, like,
you know, elevens that kind of, uh.
That kind of time.
(10:24):
It's hard an interior.
So other cars of note ice blue LS swap.
Nissan two 40, like S fourD. Not a drift car really.
And that was one of the faster cars.
I believe I saw that car do an 8 95.
I'll include a couple of picturesin it with all of this stuff.
(10:46):
You see the car make the passand then you're like, wow,
I really need to dig deeper.
But because it's like a dude and hismates, you feel guilty like going up and
standing close and leaning too close.
And to be honest, the whole thingreminded me of I went to, um.
Cadwell Park in England, which is aBritish club circuit to watch some
(11:07):
motorcycle racing and it, its plumbersusing their works van, you know, having
taken all the plumbing equipment outand put the old, you know, TZ two 50
in it, had that same kind of feel.
I compared it with the VS CC earlier.
The paddock has that same kind of.
Have you seen that innovation?
I've never seen anything like that before.
(11:27):
I never thought that engine would fit.
What on earth is it?
I'm even looking at it has that kind ofof thing, but with, as I say, with this
sort of Oregonian kind of of bent to it.
So yes, the LSS 14 is a hell of acar and I also, I mean, I'll include
a link to this car a a Catfish era.
2002 Camaro with a cow induction hood anda whole shit ton of LAC appeal and well
(11:54):
drag wheels on it and it just look thebusiness, I mean, you just look at the
car and you're like, I want that car andI want to do this event a really clean.
Red Fox Mustang got a photoof that car on on the trailer.
It had a proper interior in it.
The G Body car had aproper interior in it.
The car was black, it wasburgundy, crushed interior.
(12:16):
It just makes you smile.
And these are cheap cars.
But my word, the ingenuity, theskill, the hours that's gone into it.
And I'll tell you, when you'rethere in the paddock, you're not
just looking at the racing cars.
I mean, I only just took pictures of theracing cars, but the camping setup, these
guys have got, I'll tell you what as well.
I mean, how many CumminsRams worth my word?
(12:40):
That was fun.
In fact, when I was watching on thefinal day at Madrass, I got talking
to a guy who had been to the COOsBay event and had told me that only
a few cars made a pass because thediesel Chevelle, yes, that's right.
Diesel.
Chevelle 69 Chevelle with a Cumminsturbo diesel motor in it that had
(13:04):
basically dumped a load of oil.
It had like blown up oil line, haddumped a load of oil, and the COOs Bays
guys just didn't have the resourcesto like clear up the track and dry
it off in time for, so the COOs BayDay was lost, so I was no longer
disappointed that I missed that day.
Madras drag strip, it is worth goingout of your way to go to that venue.
(13:27):
Literally there is beautifulclean air like Montana, big
sky, super nice little town.
You come through the nice little town,outskirts of the town, nice facility,
lots of space, no resources whatsoever.
You have to like bring all yourlike food and water and all of that.
But then you stood there and inthe background there's a mountain.
It's like a drag strip in the Alps.
(13:48):
It is, it's, it's like almost like.
Am I in Grant Ismo?
And then you're like, no, becausethere's no way in Grant Ismo, you
know, people would be running the kindof beater cast that there are here
with the kind of awesome engineeringthat there is to make them get down
the drag strip in a decent time.
I did get some video of the drag racing.
I'm not really gonnabother attaching that.
(14:10):
I mean, the main thing is, isjust the sheer violence of it.
You know, that's the thing, isn't it?
And the fact that the.
Burnout where they warm up thetires, where they spin the tires
on purpose to warm them up.
That's actually watching a old muscle carwith a full interior and no roll cage,
but like a 600 horsepower big block getssideways in the box that, oh my word.
(14:33):
It, it's, uh, it's a spectacle.
It is really a spectacle.
Just like Sumer Wrestling is a spectacle.
This is a spectacle.
So a lot of Chaves and Novas andI'll, I'll include pictures of them.
There's one lovely little blue novathat, um, Chavelle rather that I
really should use as the thumbnail,but I'll probably use the G Body.
(14:56):
Probably use the G body and so we'llsee what I'll share both with the
producer and we'll both be surprisedby what shows up as the thumb.
There was a square body, likea short bed, square body Chevy
truck with four slick tires on it.
Now, when I showed my son the picture,he was like, that's the coolest thing.
But disappointingly, Inever really saw it hook up.
(15:18):
So great idea, but didn'tactually, uh, really see it Transl.
And the last image I'm just gonnainclude in the yellow slideshow
here is a truck that I saw forsale at the side of the road.
I'll include the sign as well 'cause Idare say it's still there, so who knows?
You can call it and buy the Ford Big job.
What a great name for a truck.
(15:40):
The Ford Big job.
I'll attach pictures.
Thank you.
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John Summers is the motoring historian.
He was a company car thrashing technologysales rep that turned into a fairly inept
sports bike rider hailing from California.
He collects cars and bikesbuilt with plenty of cheap and
fast and not much reliable.
On his show, he gets together withvarious co-hosts to talk about new
and old cars driving motorbikes,motor racing, and motoring travel.
(00:32):
Good day.
Good morning, good afternoon.
It is John Summers the motoring historian.
Today I am gonna review, uh, an event.
I went and spectated backin September of 2025.
It's now December calledThe Redwood Rally.
Dragon Drive.
So you might not be familiarwith what a Dragon Drive.
Event is, and when I've explained,it'll be obvious, but it, it's
(00:56):
not immediately obvious to it.
It's uh, if you are European, theprinciple is similar to our kind of stage
rallies in that what we're saying isthis is an event where you might start
in one city, drive to a local drag strip,compete at the drag strip, and then the
following day drive to another drag strip.
(01:19):
Where the same thing takes place.
Then the following day,this happens again.
So in the case of the event that I wentto this, uh, Redwood rally, in the case
of the Redwood rally, I think it was fivedrag strips in six days, but they did
a loop coming back to the original one.
Anyway, I'll put a link in tothe website so you can go there
(01:39):
and, and have a look at it.
But I guess if youhaven't already got there.
The parallel with rallying is that it isall very well to have a car which can go
around the muddy rally stage really well,or in this case, get down the quarter mile
or even for some of the events, eighthof a mile, get down that really well.
(01:59):
But can it then drive a coupleof hundred miles to the next.
Y event towing all yourequipment as well, right?
Has to carry all of the equipment as well.
So on the face of it, for thoseof you that, that aren't steeped
in the world of motor sport, thatmight not seem very big deal.
But the more attenuated a racingcar becomes, the less practical it
(02:21):
becomes for everyday kind of stuff.
And most dragsters are not street legal,so these cars have to be street legal.
We are not in Germany.
It's not like they have to be TUVapproved and it is out west here
and there is a sort of wild west.
Remember there's no MOT out west.
If you're British, there'sno annual vehicle inspection.
(02:43):
So what that means is if you drivea car without turn signals, if in
California, if they pull you over.
They can ticket you forit not having indicators.
So that would be what they call a fixit ticket, where you have a certain
amount of time to fix it and prove toa policeman that your vehicle now has
indicators on it or whatever else.
It's lacking, but you're not gonnahave any issue for corrosion.
(03:06):
You're not gonna have any issuearound, you know, dragging a car
of the junkyard and, and putting aturbo LS motor under the hood, which.
Appears to be what a lot of peopledid, and really this was the
takeaway for the event for me was,for me was the really, there were
some awesome, awesome cars just.
(03:29):
Awesome builds in a reallygrassroots kind of way, and these
vehicles are being used, right?
So you're not at a show and there'snot people, you know, polishing them.
No.
These cars are being raced downthe track and then driven 200 miles
and then again and again and again.
(03:49):
It has the feeling if you've beento a vintage sports car club meeting
in in England or Wales or Scotland,it has that kind of grassroots.
The people involved here are reallypassionate, skillful people, and it's
really a pleasure to sort of piggyback onon their event in the way that that I did.
(04:11):
I'm gonna share one anecdote andI should say, I wanna preface
this by saying that the Oregonian.
Is a breed apart.
And I think if you know, as as I'vebeen on the West coast 20 years now, the
Path West is called the Oregon Trail.
You came to Oregon and when we think ofOregon, we think of all of the trees.
(04:33):
And this is pretty much what I saw.
But driving around on these seven,on these six drag strips or five
drag strips or wherever it was,I only went to three or four.
But driving around Oregon in the waythat I did before, I really got a
sense of, of what the state looks like.
But that rugged environment breeds aparticularly rugged kind of individual,
and that particular kind of ruggedindividual builds a particular
(04:54):
kind of hot rod it seems to me.
And.
That was a pretty awesome thing to behold.
Now I have a excuse of a beard.
It's sort of halfway between stubbleand a beard, but my beard did not
pass muster in this world of big bushybeards and Ls swapped Fox Mustangs
that still had their original interiorsbut had no hood, and were getting down
(05:19):
the drag stripping under 10 seconds.
And then, you know, you see theguy with his wife or girlfriend at
the Taco Bell eating dinner withit parked up outside afterwards.
I mean, that is what this,this event is all about.
Now you don't get that at theBSCC in, in quite the same way.
So, so this is all of the.
(05:40):
Mechanical skill and compromise thatit takes to keep a rally car going,
but in this amazing wild West Vistaand its Camaros and Mustangs and
the paint's bad and nobody cares.
Oh, it is.
Bloody awesome.
And I just wanna say at this point,these drag and drive events, they're
(06:00):
generally creditors being invented byDave Fryberger at Hot Rod Magazine.
And I have to say, Ihappen to love the guy.
I know that not everybody does, but the.
Reality is the bloke inventedsomething, made up a concept, which
really gives people a reason to builda certain really cool kind of car.
(06:24):
And just sticking on the theme of theseawesome Oregonian folk apart, on the
last day at Medford Drag Strip, I parkedup facing the track and I, I was tired
because I'd been on the road and I'ddone a lot of driving before I did like.
1700 miles in four days,including a couple of days where
(06:45):
I was just at the drag strip.
Yeah.
I mean, sure it's in a tundrawith heated seats and and so on.
But I walked all around.
I, I'd got hot, I'd eaten the crap food.
I was just sat in the truckmaced, watching the cars roll
down the strip on the last day.
And, uh, I was looking to the right of me.
There was a, uh, G body, black one thathad an LS swap and pizza cutters and,
(07:09):
you know, mini tubbed and, uh, parachute.
And I'd watched them swap thetransmission on one day at the side
of the track on a portable lift.
And I'd watched that same car go like 974 at like 141 miles an hour or something.
Ridiculous.
Right.
And I'm sat there.
(07:29):
And I basically, I watched the guy,big beard check lumberjack shirt, pull
his Silverado forward, get it hookedup onto two axle flatbed trailer,
and uh, he puts the ramps down.
And then I'm.
Looking at him off the left hand sideof the truck and the regal, I think
it's a Buick Regal, but whateverhis little G body with the turbo Ls
(07:53):
in it, I hear it fire up and I lookover and it's his lad sat in it.
And this lad can't havebeen older than Ollie.
And his lad puts it in reverse and I watchhim back it up around the back of the
tundra and then I watch him line it up.
I'm thinking to myself, oh,his dad's gonna hot pin now and
drive it onto the back ramp.
No, his dad is stood in themiddle of the trailer backing
(08:14):
him on, and I'm just like, wow.
Firstly the build on the car.
Secondly.
The fact that you'vetaught the kid to drive it.
But thirdly, the fact that youare stood right in front of him.
So this, if this kid unleashesthis nine second monster, it's just
gonna pin you against the trailer.
But no, you trust andhave schooled the kid.
(08:36):
Well enough to be able to do that.
So that was a little bit of the blastof the world West and, and this, this
is taking place against the Vistaof Medford drag strip, which is a
downhill, and then the runoff is uphilland it's just the Oregonian forest.
And that's like, you know, justlike the black forest is just.
(08:56):
Endless cheese as, as, as faras, uh, as far as you can see.
And it was all right in Septemberwhen I was there, but my God, you
would not, I would not want tobe there in, uh, in wintertime.
The other really standout imagefor me, there was a brownish.
I mean 68 69 Chevelle Body style.
(09:18):
But I think it was, um, that Canadian onecalled it the, do they call it a Beaumont?
Is that the name?
I'm not really sure.
But it has like a centersplit in the grill, but it's
basically a 68 69 Chevelle.
And one of the most memorable imagesfor me was as the sun was going down and
you're rolling across this like Oregonian.
Endless forest kind of, uh,kind of landscape with the case.
(09:42):
Had the crew set about 65 oror 70, and this, uh, Beaumont
Chevelle affair in the center line.
Headlights on, came on by andit's uh, a guy and his wife were
doing it with their granddaughter.
'cause I heard the grandmotherand the granddaughter.
Talking one time when the car did apass, I'll include pictures of the car.
(10:04):
The car was an awesome car.
And that whole nature of doing the eventthat, you know, you got like the picnic
basket and the child's seat on theback seat of this like LS swapped, you
know, I guess this, this Chavelle wasdoing, if I remember correctly, like,
you know, elevens that kind of, uh.
That kind of time.
(10:24):
It's hard an interior.
So other cars of note ice blue LS swap.
Nissan two 40, like S fourD. Not a drift car really.
And that was one of the faster cars.
I believe I saw that car do an 8 95.
I'll include a couple of picturesin it with all of this stuff.
(10:46):
You see the car make the passand then you're like, wow,
I really need to dig deeper.
But because it's like a dude and hismates, you feel guilty like going up and
standing close and leaning too close.
And to be honest, the whole thingreminded me of I went to, um.
Cadwell Park in England, which is aBritish club circuit to watch some
(11:07):
motorcycle racing and it, its plumbersusing their works van, you know, having
taken all the plumbing equipment outand put the old, you know, TZ two 50
in it, had that same kind of feel.
I compared it with the VS CC earlier.
The paddock has that same kind of.
Have you seen that innovation?
I've never seen anything like that before.
(11:27):
I never thought that engine would fit.
What on earth is it?
I'm even looking at it has that kind ofof thing, but with, as I say, with this
sort of Oregonian kind of of bent to it.
So yes, the LSS 14 is a hell of acar and I also, I mean, I'll include
a link to this car a a Catfish era.
2002 Camaro with a cow induction hood anda whole shit ton of LAC appeal and well
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drag wheels on it and it just look thebusiness, I mean, you just look at the
car and you're like, I want that car andI want to do this event a really clean.
Red Fox Mustang got a photoof that car on on the trailer.
It had a proper interior in it.
The G Body car had aproper interior in it.
The car was black, it wasburgundy, crushed interior.
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It just makes you smile.
And these are cheap cars.
But my word, the ingenuity, theskill, the hours that's gone into it.
And I'll tell you, when you'rethere in the paddock, you're not
just looking at the racing cars.
I mean, I only just took pictures of theracing cars, but the camping setup, these
guys have got, I'll tell you what as well.
I mean, how many CumminsRams worth my word?
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That was fun.
In fact, when I was watching on thefinal day at Madrass, I got talking
to a guy who had been to the COOsBay event and had told me that only
a few cars made a pass because thediesel Chevelle, yes, that's right.
Diesel.
Chevelle 69 Chevelle with a Cumminsturbo diesel motor in it that had
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basically dumped a load of oil.
It had like blown up oil line, haddumped a load of oil, and the COOs Bays
guys just didn't have the resourcesto like clear up the track and dry
it off in time for, so the COOs BayDay was lost, so I was no longer
disappointed that I missed that day.
Madras drag strip, it is worth goingout of your way to go to that venue.
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Literally there is beautifulclean air like Montana, big
sky, super nice little town.
You come through the nice little town,outskirts of the town, nice facility,
lots of space, no resources whatsoever.
You have to like bring all yourlike food and water and all of that.
But then you stood there and inthe background there's a mountain.
It's like a drag strip in the Alps.
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It is, it's, it's like almost like.
Am I in Grant Ismo?
And then you're like, no, becausethere's no way in Grant Ismo, you
know, people would be running the kindof beater cast that there are here
with the kind of awesome engineeringthat there is to make them get down
the drag strip in a decent time.
I did get some video of the drag racing.
I'm not really gonnabother attaching that.
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I mean, the main thing is, isjust the sheer violence of it.
You know, that's the thing, isn't it?
And the fact that the.
Burnout where they warm up thetires, where they spin the tires
on purpose to warm them up.
That's actually watching a old muscle carwith a full interior and no roll cage,
but like a 600 horsepower big block getssideways in the box that, oh my word.
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It, it's, uh, it's a spectacle.
It is really a spectacle.
Just like Sumer Wrestling is a spectacle.
This is a spectacle.
So a lot of Chaves and Novas andI'll, I'll include pictures of them.
There's one lovely little blue novathat, um, Chavelle rather that I
really should use as the thumbnail,but I'll probably use the G Body.
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Probably use the G body and so we'llsee what I'll share both with the
producer and we'll both be surprisedby what shows up as the thumb.
There was a square body, likea short bed, square body Chevy
truck with four slick tires on it.
Now, when I showed my son the picture,he was like, that's the coolest thing.
But disappointingly, Inever really saw it hook up.
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So great idea, but didn'tactually, uh, really see it Transl.
And the last image I'm just gonnainclude in the yellow slideshow
here is a truck that I saw forsale at the side of the road.
I'll include the sign as well 'cause Idare say it's still there, so who knows?
You can call it and buy the Ford Big job.
What a great name for a truck.
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The Ford Big job.
I'll attach pictures.
Thank you.
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