[Bimbo Jones]

The first time I ever fired up my dragster was an eye opener. First off it should have been on jack stands, but no it wasn't. I was at a buddys house and we had just finish putting everything together. This car was fuel injected and I never had experience with that type of fuel system before. We fire it up with me in the car. All went fine and it was idling along as I put it in reverse to move it out of the way. Well the motor stumbled so I taped the gas peddle a couple of times like it had a carb on it and boy that motor zinged up and I went flying down the driveway backwards. Without seat belts strapped my feet were forced hard on the peddles. I barely stopped before I put the dragster into the fountain in his circle drive. It's the only time I'm been frightened in that car. I learned a bunch of no-no's that day and was very lucky.