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Tons of Fun today at the Baby Gators in Gainesville. Loads of photos and met some great folks. First up is some A/Stock Automatic action with Jeff Longhany out of North Carolina in the Vette and the number 10 qualifier Jim Cassels of Georgia in the Nova.

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K/Stock Action with Reggie Winkles out of Saint Augustine Florida and your number one qualifier, Kentucky's Tommy Turner in the 302 Mustang. -1.212 under on a 12.55 index.

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I'm a sucker for those wagons! J/Stock Automatics with Pennsylvania's Pete Oakes in the Ruff & Ready Chevelle and Blake Hickman from North Carolina in the Gen 3 Camaro.

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Even though Barry Parker's 70 Camaro is completely camouflaged, Colesy's trusty eight dollar disposable camera was able to capture this image. That's Eddie Longhany Jr. in the 69 A/SA. Eddie is out of North Carolina and Barry is from (turning on spell check)......Massachusetts.

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Jacob Rutledge of Georgia in the 88 Camaro and Rachelle Thibert all the way from Kansas. K/Stock Automatic Division 2 versus Division 5. Don't those 80's Malibu's make great looking race cars?

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Butch Payne in the Tennessee Thunder Camaro and I don't have to tell you what state Butch is from......... that's right, Georgia versus Ray Bunton out of North Carolina in the 78 Camaro. I/Stock Automatic action.

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And this is what it's all about!! Double A/Stock Automatic wheelstanding action with the number 6 qualifier John Gray (Massachusetts) in the 69 Camaro and Ohio's Randy Wilkes. A division 1 and division 3 racer enjoying the Florida sunshine and driving much faster than all the other snowbirds on I 75.

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Mississippi's Wes Neely in the 90 Firebird and Jim Wahl from just down the road in Deltona Florida. I/Stock Automatic action.

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Thank you for sharing all these class car pics

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Reach for the sky Jim Marshall. A great working I/Stock Automatic 1977 Nova from South Carolina.
That's it for tonight. More to come in the A.M.

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Ok, can't sleep. Time for a couple more. That's Joe Martens in the 69 Camaro and Dan Williams from Northampton England in the 69 Chevy Deuce. The number 2 Stock qualifier versus the 9 car. It's A/Stock action, it's Florida and it's about 72 degrees in early March. It just doesn't get much better than this. As the old post cards used to say......Wish you were here!

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G/Stock Automatic action. Number 4 qualifier Austin Alvey from Kentucky in the beautiful 69 Chevy Deuce versus Michael Bulriss from (Is Anybody Going To) San Antone in the 90 Corvette. Division 3 versus division 4....... and they come from far and wide!

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Today's Junior/Stocks right here folks! I dug em' back in the 60's and I'm diggin' em' big time again today. U/Stock Automatic action with Gary Summers from Kentucky and the V/Stock Automatic of McNeal Freeman from Atlanta Georgia. This is what NHRA Sportsman racing is all about. Hey, let's build a car!
See ya tomorrow.

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Silver and Gold. Absolutely the last post for tonight (according to my dear Wife) this is Jeff Strickland in the Factory Stock/B 2020 Camaro (FS/B run offs) and Philip Lankford in the 2014 Camaro. Wheels up and away! It's great racing and you really have to get here. See you tomorrow.

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.......and we're back. The best looking wagon on the grounds belonged to Division 1 racer Pete Oaks from Pennsylvania. I/Stock Automatic with a 327 in a 66 Chevelle. What a great looking race car!

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Another Division 1 car, all the way from Vermont. This is Adam Strang's D/Stock Firebird. I love those 67 and 68 Birds and the fact that this one is a 4 speed makes it that much better.

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That's perfection right there!! The 65 Plymouth Belvedere Double A/Stock Automatic of Jim Nichols of Ohio. Yea, it's got a Hemi in it. Seeing this car is worth the price of admission!

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Great work, sir. Kudos!

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Wheels up! Steve Foley in the yellow Firehawk and Jim Kelley in the Camaro. Jim's from Florida and Steve's from North Carolina. C/Stock Automatic cars.

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Isn't that a great looking car? It's Morgan Wilson's 69 Nova out of South Carolina.

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Hello fellow Canadian. It's Chris Howes in his 65 Valiant. Chris is from New Brunswick. It's a Q/Stock Automatic car so I'm guessing it's a 273.

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A 77 Grand LeMans from the cajun state. Wayne Larsen running N/Stock Automatic with a 400 cu. incher.

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This is one of those cars you just gotta see in person, close up. The paint finish is flawless. Terry Hembree hails from Blue Ridge Georgia.

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Another very tidy Stocker, this is Ricky Stephens out of Tennessee in a more doors 66 Chevy Twice J/Stock Automatic. Now that's a unique sponsor!

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How about some Super/Stockers. This is a pretty one. FGT/K with a 360 cubic inches in a 64 Savoy. Randell Weisinger is from just down the road in Orlando.

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Another pretty one, this 80 Dodge Aspen /Rebel Kidd with Tim Stickles from New Hampshire driving. A 318 powers this Super Stock/L Automatic car.

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If it has A&J Automotive on the quarter panels it's gotta be fast! This is Brian Oaks originally from Nova Scotia and now living in North Carolina. This car once held the national record in B Automatic. Great to see it here! I'll post a very recent article about John and Allyn Armstrong from their local paper in the Annapolis Valley.

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Here's the article........https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/lifest...ngines-419193/

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The number 2 qualifier in Super Stock, Mark Nowicki out of Gaylord Michigan. 360 power in the 98 Avenger. I believe that's Don Barber from Tennessee in the far lane.

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Sure enjoyed watching these Factory Stocks and Super Stocks! Roy Hill and Eric Raymer in their FGT/B's.

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The number 8 qualifier in Super Stock, Richard Bierie from Georgia and Jeff Bragg from Fort Myers.

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Colesy, you are the man!

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Back to the Stockers. Those Copos look great coming and going. This is Tim Lowe from Indiana your number eight qualifier.

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My pleasure, I'm glad you're enjoying them!

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This is Greg Rowe's 2004 E/SA GTO your 16th spot qualifier. Greg's from Bridgeton North Carolina.

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All the way from Illinois it's Marty Buth in the 4 cylinder Turbo Stang.

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The second Buth car and it's the 4 speed Pinto wagon of Ellis Buth and it's in the big show on Sunday with a win today in round one.

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Travis Miller and the guys were nice enough to let me hang out in the tech area. They wondered who the crazy guy was taking all those photos with a cheap little cell phone. That's me (red arrow). Lesson number one in professional photography is it's always good to get your shadow into the photo. Merrill Schrimscher and his Camaro.

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Tech is the place to hangout! The NHRA boxes are full of Wallys, there's class finalists decals, the scales and you can watch them do fuel checks too.

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This gentleman needs no introduction. Roy's been racing forever and is still as competitive as ever.. Remember all his great Pro Stockers? Roy has the racing school as well.