"Live" from Atco,NJ-PC Richard National Open

[Doug Blackley]

The new CJ is Erich Bollmans.

[B Aceves]

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas

What a day ! ! Because of the weather conditions today we had a very late start this morning .Not a lot of cars here for the test n tune and as for record attempts -- forget about it ."Only" three records were set today -- Dave Thomas in his SS/BA Corvette -- 8.86 , Gary Parker in his 73 Camaro H/SA --11.11 @118 Plus MPH and last but not least yours truly in C/SA with our 97 Firebird at 10.36 at almost 129 MPH .

Tune-up and record runs are still going on and today test n tune was a bargain -- you could get as many runs as you wanted -- just wear your stuff out if you so desired .Tomorrow is still looking bad -- probably a washout ! ! We'll see -- hoping for the best ......

Still plenty of pit space so com'on down ........later .

Extra -Extra -- SS/H record set at 9.74 and backed up.............

Hey Jack Congrats on the record in C, Thats a hell of a deal for a test n tune, Maybe you want to come back West and get 2 runs for a 100 bucks again in Vegas Huh!! LOL. You coming back in OCT??
Good luck in ATCO and maybe we can meet again in OCT. We couldnt make it to this month but
plan on being there in OCT.

Bob Aceves
746 E/SA
68 Firebird

[Tom Moock]

Sal, you can go to 1320go.com to see runs from today, I think Ken went 9.89 at 132mph But it list`s all the cars as ss class`s, Tom

[Ken Miele]

Its after midnight, final got the new rear in. It broke on the last test session pass. Fighting lots of gremlins today, the rear was the icing on the cake. I just wanted to make a few easy runs and get ready for race day......good thing I decided to run the car today.

I took some pictures, but my plan was to drive through the pits and give everyone some shots of the new cars or cars that have not been seen much. Well, things did not go as planned, maybe tomorrow.

The air was pretty good to day. My gauges were showing about 1100 feet. Barometer was 29.95 and the humidity was between 50 and 60%, temp was around 62.

I got a look at the only northeast CJ, this one was race ready, not like the one in Florida. Eric Bollman's CJ is one of the 50. I got to run him, it was a interesting run. I'm not going to get into all the numbers, but I can run with him today. I went a 9.89 to his 9.88. As for the future, I do not think I will have enough pony's for the new CJ. It will be tough to run with them, I will have my work cut out for me. They are cools cars, and I'm glad to see them racing.

The AA car to beat right now is David Barton's Hemi. He went 9.73, that was an impressive run, I don't think I could have went any better then a 9.79 if I stepped it up. Lots of people are worried about the CJ, I'm more concerned about Barton's Hemi. Another car here to watch in AA is Steve Sawka...sorry Steve if I spelled you name wrong.

I will try to get more pictures tomorrow. I hope I have a better day, but I'm still having fun even when breaking parts.

[Tom Moock]

Bollman`s Mustang went 137.65 mph.if his car number is 112, the record for AA/SA is 134.24, Tom

[Ed Carpenter]

Damn 9.74 in SS/H. Back to work. Who set it? Post a pic if possible.Congrats to whoever it was. ED

[David Ley]

Tony Fillapone in SS/H .

[Jack Matyas]

As promised its Friday and the monsoons are here -- its been raining most of the night and judging by the noise from the roof of my coach pretty hard .As you may tell from some of the previous posts we had a great day here at Atco yesterday with Joe Sway and Company having the place in terrific shape.Racers here in the Northeast have their pick of tracks to race at and coming here is all good -- probably why Atco has been "Track of the Year" many times .Joe's run all day test 'n tune was a huge hit with the racers yesterday -- everyone got their moneys' worth .Also thanks should go out to the NHRA and Mr. Lang & Co. for the extended time given to Record Runs -- when was the last time you made as many attempts as you wanted in a single day ? Could it be that Sportsman racers are very important once again -- sure looks that way .This economy has changed a great many things but we sure didn't see it as a way of bringing the Sportsman back to the front.............later as its off to teardown for me .

[X-TECH MAN]

Kenny.....I didnt think those 9 inch rears were supposed to break ! You didnt try to "NETURAL START" it did you? LOL

[Larry Hill]

Look at all the fast "paper"

Good luck to all and thanks for the reports.