1968 Bakersfield Fuel Memories on Racin' and Rockin' This Week!
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Thanks, Wally! It was a lot of fun as always! bp
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Thanks, Wally! It was a lot of fun as always! bp
1968 Bakersfield Fuel Memories on Racin' and Rockin' This Week!
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1968 Bakersfield Fuel Memories on Racin' and Rockin' This Week!
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But first, Danny White brings us this week's Drag Racing List of the Week: The Bakersfield March Meet Top Fuel winners, from 1959 to 1988! That's right, Danny will run down the winning Top Fuel drivers from the original running of annual Fuel & Gas Championships!
Then it's Hit Records with John Bockelman. This week we'll be playing and discussing the top songs on the Billboard charts from 1968 -- the year that George debuted his Stone Age Man fuel dragster at Bakersfield and elsewhere! Listen in as Jeff and Dustin spin the songs from that great year...
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Top Fuel and Funny Car Racer Jim "Superman" Nicoll on Racin' and Rockin' This Week!
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Danny White will do his popular Drag Racing List of the Week... This week, it's the Top 10 Rear Engine Top Fuel Dragsters of all time! Garlits? Muldowney? Beck? Schumacher? Amato? Warren? Who's gonna make the list and where will they rank? Listen to Danny's list and then CALL IN to share YOUR picks!
John "WildcatOne" Bockelman has got a keyboards gig on Friday night, but that doesn't mean we aren't going to do another "Hit Records with John Bockelman"! This week: we take the date of Jim Nicoll's amazing Indy crash (September 1970) and we tell you what music was popular on the Billboard charts at the time!BE THERE!!!
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Hi Karate John! Great to hear from you. You and I have announced at MIR together when you had your pro mod guys down... Sorry we didn't get your question in time. Looking forward to your call one of these days soon. Would love to get you on the show... bp
Top 10 Outlaw Pro Mods of All Time
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Hi Robbie. You will be amazed at the constant FLOOD of amazing doorslammers at an ADRL event. You will have a great time! Bill
Top 10 Outlaw Pro Mods of All Time
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Thanks, Robbie! It's SUPER TOUGH! I did not envy Danny... PS... Frankie Taylor just became the first outlaw pro mod in the 3.5 zone with a 3.596 at Rockingham ADRL! bp Robbie Solesbee said:
A top 10 list for Pro Mods. That has to be one headache to come up with. I've never seen a Pro Mod I didn't like. I mean, mountain motors, nitrous, blowers. Stances where the top of the hood is at knee height when you stand in in front if the car.220+MPH passes. What's not to love! Plus bodystyle is left to the imagination and not a manufacturere. Great list though. And great picture of Animal Jim. My ex-wife threw out my Animal Jim t-shirt. Guess why she's my EX??
Top 10 Outlaw Pro Mods of All Time
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Thanks, Wally. All great racers. Hard to pick 10 from all time... glad Danny does it and not me. bp
Top 10 Outlaw Pro Mods of All Time
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Top 10 Outlaw Pro Mods of All Time
(as identified on Racin' & Rockin' with Draglist.com, 9/03/10)
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Bill Kuhlmann
The first racer to 200 MPH in a slammer and almost the first to the fives with a 6.000, Kuhlmann was the leading racer for years in outlaw racing. (Photo by Brian Wikler)
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Jason Scruggs
Scruggs is the racer other look to for the latest innovation in outlaw slammer racing. Scruggs has the quickest small block for years that made big block shake in their boots. Scruggs was the first to 3.80's and 3.70's. (Photo byGena White)
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Charles Carpenter
Carpenter helped invent Pro Mod racing with his 55 Chevys, no question about it. Carpenter is still at it today with his deadly consistent 55 Chevy in ADRL racing. (Photo byGena White)
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Todd Tutterow
Tutterow has won crowns in ADRL, Quick 8, and Big Dog racing with various cars. He won with blown cars, nitrous cars and small blocks, he just wins! (Photo byGena White)
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Victor Bray
The best Top Doorslammer racer ever and best slammer racer in history outside of North America. Bray help innovate many things that the states soon followed. (Photo by Steve Thomas)
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Scotty Cannon
The best legal Pro Mod racer ever in history that also won many Quick 8 races locally. (Photo by Thomas Nagy)
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Rob Vandergriff
The mini Thunder Craft 57 Chevy was one of the most innovative cars all time in drag racing. Some cried foul, some loved it, and opponents hated racing it. (Photo byAl Tracy)
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Frankie Taylor
The Mad Man has come a long way since the nineties. Taylor is now the quickest outlaw in the country at 3.60. (Photo byGena White)
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Fred Hahn
The team of Hahn and Oddy won championships in many groups like USSC, IHRA, Super Chevy, and another I cannot think of right now. (Photo by Thomas Nagy)
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Jim Feurer
The legendary match racer was one of the best racers in the formative days of Pro Mods. (Photo byHector Leal)
Honorable Mentions
Bob Bunker/Dave Riolo
This is of racers goes together because they raced one another for years. They help invent index racing and later Pro Mod racing on the West Coast. Bunker's Beast just retired last year.
Gaylen Smith
The head of TOPMA also one of the best known racers in Texas doorslammer action. The Texas Bounty Hunter has now asserted himself as one the top ADRL racers now!
Sonny Tindal
The grand old man of Southeastern slammer racing has been around for years. Tindal best known car was the early Quick 8 killer Gaffney's Nova, with it's nitrous powered altered wheelbase backed by a glide. It was legendary!
Joe Delahay
Delahay has been around for years with his first claim to fame was a full size truck years ago. Joe recently won his fourth West Coast Pro Mod Association crown with his killer blown Camaro.
Tommy Mauney
The great chassis builder used to race almost anything in the early weekly Quick 8 action that predated Pro Mods. Mauney won with big blocks and small blocks, Lencos and glides, it just did not matter. Mauney just won a lot!
Bil Clanton
The Big Money team has been around since the beginning of Pro Stocks and they are still around today. The very popular Studebaker has won many races even tough it has several run in with guardrails. It is like the Timex watch!
Hugh Scott
The Outlaw racer of Outlaw racers. Scott has raced many cars down the worst tracks you have have seen. Scott just won a lot on those tracks.
John Scialpi
Sciapli has had the Woppado '57 Chevy since high school and is still racing it today. Scialpi predated Pro Mod racing and help make it popular on the West Coast.
Jim Halsey
Halsey is one of the innovators in nitrous doorslammer racing today. Halsey has the latest Fulton power plant of unknown inches along with partner Pat Stoken.
Josh Hernandez
The Texas racer is one of the winningest racers in ADRL history and one of the first in the 3.60s!
updated by @bill-pratt: 12/05/16 08:51:12AM
Bret Williamson/Don Carter Pro Mod Championship Story
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Williamson wraps up the 2010 West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Association points championship with a win in Denver
Sacramento, Ca The Don Carter Motorsports team, with Bret Williamson driving the 53 Studebaker,wrapped up the 2010 West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Associations (WCOPMA) pointschampionship with their win last weekend at Bandimere Speedway during the SuperChevy Show event, an event the WCOPMA was booked in to headline for BandimereSpeedway.
Going into the Denver event, all that was needed for the team was for Williamson to qualify anywhere in the 8-car field and thechampionship was theirsbut like the team has done all season long they wereset to run hard and not take it easy with a main goal to make it to yetanother final round and win another event this 2010 season.
During testing on Friday it was relevant that they had brought their A-game. Most other teams serviced their cars during the weekbetween Boise and Denver (as the events were back to back) and were makingmultiple testing passes during Fridays test session. It was a different storyfor the Don Carter Motorsports team; they spent all day Friday servicing theengine and car working till the last minute and made it to the starting linewith just 5 minutes left during testing. The Studebaker was the last car downthe track and made a half track pass that clocked a 4.06 1/8 th -miletime, that was .03 seconds better than anyone elses time to the half trackmark and out the back door wouldve been a low 6.20 pass. They were ready forqualifying on Saturday.
On the first qualifying session Saturday afternoon Bret blasted to the number 1 spot with a 6.21. That pass lasted in the top spotthrough the second session but things got interesting on the third and finalsession under the lights. Jay Diedrich was in the second qualifying spot with a6.23 and ran right before Bret in the third session where he would lay down a6.21 and take the top spot by just a couple thousandths of a second.
Bret later said he saw Jay bump him down to the second spot, and honestly didnt think he could run a number to take it backbut he waswrong. The previous track ET record was a 6.48 and it was reset multiple timesduring testing and qualifying by multiple drivers, but no one expected to see ateen pass in the 8,000-10,000 feet of corrected air. That is just what Bretdid under the lights when he ran an unheard of 6.13 to take the number onequalifying spot back for Jay and for good! It would be the third time Bret leadthe qualifying in the five WCOPMA events ran this 2010 season.
In the first round Bret would face Dan Myers. Dan was off the line first and lead to half track but Bret started to pull away on the backhalf and got the round win with a 6.17 over Dans 6.54. In the second roundBret would face Randy Kay with his 63 Corvette. Like the bracket car theStudebaker has been all year Bret laid down a 6.18 to take the win over Kay whoran a blower banging 6.63. The final round Bret would be faced with Pro Modlegend John Scialpi. Scialpi got the jump off the line and, just like DanMyers, lead to half track but then Bret had the big screw-blown power with hisMiner Brothers engine and started to pull away on the back half taking theevent win with a 6.20 to Scialpis early lifting 6.52.
While talking to the team in the pits after the event they said that in the combined 13 passes in Boise and Denver the last 2 weekendsthey never ran a pass slower than 6.23. Combine that great feat with the factthey have been in every final round while running with the WCOPMA this 2010season with 3 wins and 2 runner-ups and its safe to say the team deserves thechampionship this year! The hard work and dedication from the entire team isshown with the cars performance on the track.
Don Carter wants to thank, first and foremost, the crew chief Jeff Butler for his great tuning all season long. Jeff, along with BretWilliamson, are the main factors that make the Studebaker run as good as it hasall year. But it wouldnt be possible without a great crew behind themconsisted of Don Williamson, Mike Dickerson, Mike Dickerson Jr., Don Beam, RichGore and Mark Hanel.
The Don Carter Motorsports team would like to thank their sponsors for their support this 2010season:
Network Office Systems - www.NorCalCopiers.com
Simpson Race Products - none"">www.SimpsonRaceProducts.com
Marshs Carpet - www.MarshsCarpet.com
Don Beam Automotive
Honest Engine - www.HonestEngineOnline.com
updated by @bill-pratt: 12/05/16 08:51:11AM
2010 West Coast Outlaw Pro Mod Champs on Racin' and Rockin' This Week!
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And with perfect timing, we'll kick off the show with Danny White's latest Drag Racing List of the Week: the Top Ten OUTLAW PRO MODS of all time! From early USSC racers, to monstrous Aussie Top Doorslammers, to UDRA Outlaw Pro Stockers, to hundreds of regional match race cars, to modern ADRL killers, which TEN racers will rise to the top of this incredibly popular and tough category? BE THERE TO FIND OUT!
And... we want to hear from YOU! Disagree with Danny's list? Call in to tell us yours! Ring us up to tell us what YOU have going on! Events? Shows? New car? SPILL IT!
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