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[steptoe91(tozie)]

OMG!! Sondra!!! i am sooooo jealous!!! we go to Gatornationals (NHRA) every year!!! and have been for... uuuhhh, 9 or 10 years, i think. it is AMAZING! next year i have already made plans to go all four days. we usually only went one day, couldnt get the ex to go more. then last year Drew and i decided to make an whole weekend of it. by the end of the weekend, we had decided that next year we were going all four days. i am sooo excited just thinking about it! <sigh> i'm not sure i can stand the wait til march! <sigh>

oh! wishy! that sounds amazing, too!!! what's SCCA? 

[wishforabird]

Sports Car Club/America. Classic stuff, mustangs/Jags/Cobras, anything not NASCAR, LOL. the real James Dean racing cars of yesteryear...in MINT CONDITION and flying around the track like they were meant to. and not an oval track either, one of those tracks that twists and turns and so on, REAL RACING!  party

[BrilliantFids]

B'fid: a Lab attacked your cousin?! wow! that sucks! is cousin okay? i'm assuming somewhat scarred up? wow!

Yeah. It happened really fast, my dad turned to answer the phone and when he turned back around my cousins face was mangled. I was in kindergarten so he must of been about 3 years old. He was in the hospital for a while, and had several surgeries to reconstruct his face. He still has a couple scars, but considering the severity of his bites they are pretty small. He is 21 now and still loves dogs, he knows it was his fault Poncho bit him and never had any bad feelings toward him. We did have to have him put down though, they city ruled him un safe....he truly was a great dog though.

[Sondra]

When I first started working races I was a Tech official, would do tear-down, the whole 9 yards. I was in Canada when Shirley Muldowney crashed, they wanted me to help get her out of the car (what was left of it) & ride to the hospital, but I declined. I also ended my career with NHRA (still get asked to work every year) with Tech & time slips. I would test fuel on the pro cars to make sure they were legal, then when time trial were over I would work time slips. I do miss the racers! I've declined dinner with John Force, had dinner with Kalita, Bernstein, Amado, Garltlitz (Spelled wrong), and drinks with a host of other big name racers. I always refused the A$$holes. I've been in some of the racers trailers and I'll tell you they invest as much in thosre trailers as they do their cars, especialy their living quarters!  I've even started cars at the summer Nats, the Keystone Nats, and at Indy, that was when Buster Couch was starter and needed a break to eat lunch and check his blood-sugar and take his shot if needed.