Barney, you and Dokk did great ! We just need to keep the fan on at all times to insure that it does not get warm. Done..... no other problems....
My Checkpoint Cup experience
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 12:33 AM
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:56 AM
Now that that's all cleared up......get on that track and Race boys......and have some fun
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 02:02 PM
I just want to say that during my racing career (1970's-1990s) if the power problems I experienced could have been cured with a 2 minute break then I would have had a better racing experience at many SoCal raceways.
Jeez, people, GET A GRIP!
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 03:16 PM
Boss, isn't that true. (Q) How many times was it that racers had to get the batteries from their cars to finish a race? (A) Lots. . .
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 03:57 PM
Boss, isn't that true. (Q) How many times was it that racers had to get the batteries from their cars to finish a race? (A) Lots. . .
LOL,in the 70s-80s we didn't have the internet to bitch,moan and cry on,,we just did what we had to to race.We where happy to find a track with 8 working lanes.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 04:11 PM
LOL One of the items I used to always have in the slot box in the 70s was some rubberbands to wrap around the controller trigger so I could leave the drivers station to do sonething else when the track batteries died. My car would have fun finishing the race without me.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 06:15 PM
Be happy the track is there. I for one would hate to see all of those old guys playing in the streets.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 06:21 PM
yes! gezzers drag racing on Pershing Drive behind LAX
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 08:18 PM
yes! gezzers drag racing on Pershing Drive behind LAX
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:51 PM
yes! gezzers drag racing on Pershing Drive behind LAX
Too much traffic and too many 9-11 (Airport) police nowadays. Besides where'd everyone meet up? Bob's Big Boy turned into an apartment complex years ago
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Posted 21 January 2013 - 11:25 AM
I used to speed to work at Hughes Aircraft in culver city, the back entrance that ran
along side the landing strip. When there was no traffic to dodge, I do 100 before I
had to slow for the esses turns. No more Hughes, its all apartments now too.
along side the landing strip. When there was no traffic to dodge, I do 100 before I
had to slow for the esses turns. No more Hughes, its all apartments now too.
Mike Low
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Give me enough rope and I'll build a fast car... or hang myself?
Cry like a baby, drive like a girl, walk like a man.
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Posted 21 January 2013 - 01:21 PM
And Nabisco is gone, too. Many late night drag racing, errrr, carb clearing was done there, too.
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