This past weekend found me working rather than racing at Thunder Mtn with the boys and it nearly killed me. Hopefully they had a cardboard cut-out of me to keep them company and add sarcastic drunken comments where applicable. The big news on this weekend surrounded the drag race debut of "ZzzzBlades" one and only "race rod". Gabe "The Kid" Sawatzky has been building this Model A Roadster Pick-up from the ground up for the past four years and this last weekend he raced the crap out of it. Back in the day, people used to build rods for one purpose only, going fast. Today you'll be hard pressed to find a traditional hot rod that isn't a trailer queen or has even made the effort to make a pass down the drag strip. I'm talking about hand built, light weight cars with huge engines. These things are meant to be thrashed on and Gabe didn't hold anything back. Cutting a descent light was tricky with the manual gear box and despite the super sticky Hurst pie cut racing slicks, traction was at a premium. The best time of the weekend was an 8.95 in the 8th. To put that into perspective, our dedicated race car runs a 7.77 and my big heavy Polara will do a 10.15. So yah, it's really freakin' fast. The joke of the weekend focused around the apparently "Snell approved" helmet that was alegidly signed by Peter Fonda. Fact or fiction...you be the judge.
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