Location, Location, Location

Seem like a lot of West Coast guys, which is fun because we get different perspectives on things.

Originally Posted by FEandGoingBroke

I'll give you those bursts just before I swap the head to my new modified head....

As I knew you would.

dbu8554, i'm stationed here at nellis too. military people are people just the same as every body else in the world. good apples and bad apples. and i agree its nice to know where our fellow FMers are as i just moved in last month and trying to network.

Murff
I agree with Tony408! Us Right Coasters do enjoy the antics of you folks on the Left Side.
But what amazes me the most is not so much the cars or the attitude, but the geography!
Some of you guys live in a state that's so big, you can fly for an hour or two and still be in the same state, whereas here in Connecticut, 65 miles in any direction from where I live, I'm in another state or the Long Island Sound. We have to travel to New York or New Hampshire for a decent drag strip (Connecticut Dragway closed years ago due to noise and politics, but did get to see Bob Tasca work his Ford magic there). Would be cool to have an FM reunion somewhere in the central U.S. to put a face to a name

Lee

Originally Posted by lees6t

Murff
I agree with Tony408! Us Right Coasters do enjoy the antics of you folks on the Left Side.
But what amazes me the most is not so much the cars or the attitude, but the geography!
Some of you guys live in a state that's so big, you can fly for an hour or two and still be in the same state, whereas here in Connecticut, 65 miles in any direction from where I live, I'm in another state or the Long Island Sound. We have to travel to New York or New Hampshire for a decent drag strip (Connecticut Dragway closed years ago due to noise and politics, but did get to see Bob Tasca work his Ford magic there). Would be cool to have an FM reunion somewhere in the central U.S. to put a face to a name

Lee

Now THAT would be some s**t to see!

Ford Muscle POWER TOUR 2009.

Whaddya say, Admin?

It's funny tho', up here in the northwest anyone into motorsports of any kind are viewed as the absolute spawn of demons.

Used to have drag boat races on Green Lake, a small couple hundred acre lake just north of the downtown area. Then the zoo (about 5 miles away) got some snow leopards and it turned out the males couldn't get it up while the boats were running so no more drag boats.

Hydroplane racing has always been an anchor event in Seattle. I remember going to Lake Washington in the late 50's to watch. Then more as I got older and could really party. Now, they're all turbine boats, no more thunder boats and the general population is trying to do away with that too because of the noise.

Used to be five primary dragstrips, Arlington, Pacific Raceways, Puyallup Raceway (owned by Craig Breedlove), Shelton and Bremerton. Now it's just pacific and Bremerton, and Bremerton is now requiring mufflers. NASCAR tried to come to town buth the NIMBY crowds ran 'em off.

My impression of the east and southeast regions are racetracks in every county and circle tracks on every corner.

Yeah, the left coast may have bigger states but I think youse guys have a higher tolerance level for racing.

Oh dude 64bird410 no disrespect meant FEandgoingbroke lives on an air force base and i consider him a friend of mine and go out of my way to bust his balls it was meant as a jab at him no problem with military folks unless then drive falcons!*another jab at feandgoingbroke*

also great to hear you are out here man where did you get transferred from and what do in the AF if you dont mind me asking anyways there are 3 people aside from you in vegas we are all active on here there is one more guy out in boulder city i think but he rarely comes on here and I have not met him before but the rest of us know each other in vegas nice to meet ya man.

Murff
Tho' this "conversation" is mutating into something different than your initial intent, there are a lot of guys here who do their racing under the cover of darkness and quiet streets with some serious machinery. We have several circle tracks for the roundy-rounders to play and a few Nascar drivers have been borne from New England and we even have Lime Rock where the elite come to socialize , but there really is no motorsports arenas here.

It must have been cool to see and hear those big hydro's churning up the waters. As an aside, good luck with your Falcon's assembly and teach Scott and Sam as much as you can! Us gearheads are a dying breed. I wish your son well when he's "in country". You're a good Dad too, don't ever forget that. He sure won't!

Lee

Originally Posted by Murff

My impression of the east and southeast regions are racetracks in every county and circle tracks on every corner.

Strangely, in my area we almost have too many of both. One of the oldest and best known drag strips in the eastern edge of the midwest, Quaker City Raceway in Salem, Oh barely escaped the developer's grader though it's former owner sold off all of the surrounding land late this spring. The 'strip and state of the art facilities got new owners, but it's long term fate is none too certain. Anybody was anybody in the '60s and '70s ran at Quaker...Garlits, Kalitta, Muldowney, Chris the Greek, Nicholson, Schartman, Landy, Dave Strickler, Bill Jenkins, Stone, Woods and Cook, Ohio George, Jungle Jim, and more top racers that I could possibly think of ran there. In fact, there first time I ever went to the strip was to watch the Little Red Wagon drag it's tailgate down Quaker City's quarter mile... Dragway 42, Thompson...home of the Gasser Reunion, Norwalk, and several others are less than a couple of hours away.

I'd have to actually sit and count the number of dirt and asphalt circle tracks within 100 miles of my home. There are many more ovals than drag strips. It sounds like we have an embarassment of riches with so many tracks, but most run the same classes, race on Friday or Saturday night and with an uncertain economy....we build REAL AMERICAN cars here, having so many tracks vying for the same cars and fans has become a real problem.

But yeah, Kalifornia may be thought of as Hot Rod Country, but the midwest, east and south is where the real racing happens!

Jan

I don't care where this thread of Murff's is going! I'm taking it up a notch, BAM!

All youse guy's over in the east got it ALL wrong!

You see, as I see the world YOU are on the left not us!

I just happen to look DOWN from the North Pole and view the world as it sit's below me and my MIGHTY FALCON!

So that put's YOU on the left and US on the right

So THERE! :P

And to you WHITE BOY..... Baaaaaaaaah!