What's up........

I just want to give some updates of what is currently happening with the team and specifically with John (crew chief). A couple of years ago John was contacted by a fellow from Southern California named Larry Crossan. It seems that Larry had seen some pictures of one of John's top fuel cars from the late 60s and took a liking to it. He wanted to know if with John's help and permission he could recreate the car for a show/cackle car (or a car that can be started but due to modern safety rules can not be raced). John agreed and they set out to recreate the car as it was when ran in 67/68. The original car was destroyed in a crash so it had to be recreated rather than found and restored.
It is now 2 years later and John is in California right now putting the finishing touches on the car and preparing it for it's debut next weekend at the prestigious California Hot Rod Reunion. It is a great honor for John to have his car chosen out of the thousands that ran in the 60s to be created and the whole Speed Merchants team is very proud and excited for John. I have posted a couple of pictures above that I found of the original car. I am sure John will be sending some pictures of the recreation soon.
As for the rest of the team and our dragster we are only waiting on the blower to be returned from repair to complete the car for Bowling Green. The blower should be here today or tomorrow and the car should be ready 2 weeks early. That is a great feeling.
This coming weekend a friend of mine named Rick McElrea asked me to drive his 10 second Vega (Ford powered) at a 2 day $10,000 payout race in Tulsa Oklahoma - Friday and Saturday and I am really looking forward to that.
Team member Randy compton traded his 57 Chevy for a really nice little front engine dragster with a mild blowm 350 Chevy named the gold digger. I am excited for Randy and he hopes to get it to the track soon to get his feet wet and get comfortable driving the car.I am posting a couple of pictures of it above as well.
Brad