Pictures are on loan form southwestdrags.com, until we can get our own.
We will be updating our club race team on how they are doing out on the track!
Nov 21 was a really great day to race, first off our MOPAR members did very well. Danny Dean won the Modified championship, and won the run off for Track Champ also. James McCall won third in the mod races and I think he was third in the season points also. Andy Wiles ended up fifth in modified for the year. Bonnie Wiles was running street in the red Duster and I think got into the money again. I went three rounds in Pro, losing to Trevor Ward from Arizona by a whisker. The air and temp was REALLY good for making HORESEPOWER, my best round was 10:43 @ 129.72 mph, that's the best the little white Dart has ran. I almost forgot Danny also won the dash for cash $370.00, he ran a 11.611 on a 11.61 dial, he had a very good payday. Finally ran into someone from Roswell, can't remember his name but he was running a beautiful 63 Fury in mod, he told me what is wrong with my car and how to fix it, he was having the same problems with his, so we will be doing some suspension work to my car this winter, as will Danny. See all at Cattlemans, Happy Holidays.Bud
Here recently I found out Gary Handen (who is a local resident) is racing in NHRA again. And doing very well. He agreed to keep us up to date on his progress. Good Luck Gary!
To All Fellow Mopar Enthusiasts:
Here we are in May and we have yet to go past the second round at any National Event.........Guess I was getting spoiled by the success we had late in the year last fall. The Dart is running Great, and my driving is OK. It just seems that I run into some impossible runs. Jeff Taylor (2nd round, Las Vegas Nationals), had a .018 package against me. How do you beat that?????. He had a .018 light and ran a "dead on zero". I had a decent .032 light and broke out by 4-5 thousands. By the way, Jeff Taylor just won the Nationals in St. Louis this past week end. I also ran into Brad Poulard that had a .02 something package against me. I was proud that I beat Dan Fletcher in the first round of Class eliminations in Las Vegas.......Get this: I had a .005 light and he had a .001 !!!!!!.. Unbelievable lights for both of us. I had him covered, so he backed out of it at 1,000 feet. Getting DQ'd in Pomona was a lot of fun.....I crossed the center line on the launch. Yep, on the launch. I put the Dart on the wheelie bars and about 90 feet later, I crossed the center line, with the wheels still in the air. I apparently had too much spring pressure in the left wheelie bar and it pushed me to the left. We are headed to Topeka later this month to run the Summer Nationals. Maybe our fortunes will change there. From Topeka we are planning to going to Chicago, the following week end for another National Event. I will let you know how we do. On another note, I would like to invite everyone to visit out West Coast Mopar Gang web site. www.westcoastmopargang.com Three of us got together and started this association. It is by invitation only, and membership is not free. We pay for performance, to our Stock and Super Stock members, for: National and Division wins and runner ups. And we also pay for setting National Records. Event winners and National Record setters get entry into our Hall of Fame. Check out the web site. Sincerely, Gary Hansen
Here recently I found out Gary Handen (who is a local resident) is racing in NHRA again. And doing very well. He agreed to keep us up to date on his progress. Good Luck Gary! 
