DP #24 Drooze, Mandie & Pop shooting for Vegas

[Floyd Gomez]

Actually I kept up with Drooze on his trip and believe it or not it is all true. To me this is a break from reading the same post about bogus horsepower and oddball muscle cars.

[Rich Biebel]

OK........

My last race was 2 weeks ago at Atco....the Open series race.

I just redid the trans in my S/C dragster (don't throw any fits cause I don't have a friggen Stocker). I did my own trans.....was having trouble hitting the .370 tree.....I gutted the trans and replaced the VB and some other parts. Tested it at home and it was fine on jackstands.....

Loaded up my stuff.... Car in the trailer, camper on my pickup....

Drove to Atco after work thursday...2.5 hours. Arrived in time for beer to celebrate arriving alive......

Watched my friend make a mess as he changed his trans that was puked!.

Made 2 runs next day.....trans leaked.....I fixed it... it was a minor error on my part and not much of a leak.........haven't done my own transmission in a long time......

Made 2 more runs next day before first rd......got my act together and went to rd 3 on Sunday........missed the tree and got the big L on my ticket.....


Hung out....talked to some of my Stocker friends and enjoyed watching and the beautiful weather.......got my "gas money" check and headed back up north.......Arrived home in one piece on time and put some of my stuff away......Went in the house and rest up some......go to work Monday at 6:30

Proper planning.......things went well.....no mishaps....no big stories.....Could have easily been a Stocker with the same story........

[Mark Yacavone]

For what it's worth, I DID see the Droozemobile in the car show area at Vegas.

No one around it to give everyone's love and best wishes to....
for a high Neilsen rating this season....

[Floyd Gomez]

Why are so many bashing this thread. Has anyone here read the reason they are doing this? Here is a quote from a post by Mr. David(Droozes Dad)

People keep asking "why", and the probably the best answer was given... Because we can. I will only say this once because I don't dwell on it, but life is too short (have a Doctor tell you that you have 6-9 months to live and see if you don't agree with me.) and nobody is promised tomorrow. Getting this car down the track and actually being more than competitive is on my Bucket list... And it is the only thing there, that hasn't been accomplished yet... So why do we do it? Because we have to do it and we do it with a sense of urgency that sometimes overcomes common sense.... But we will keep going as long as we can... And we WILL get it done.

David
The New Hemi Guy

Here is a guy that is doing whatever he can to help his dad fulfill a bucket list. He drove accross the country, didn't make it in time and you have never heard them complain. He didn't gripe because NHRA wouldn't let them in or give them a refund. He just simply documented a time with his Father that soon will only be great memory. I lost my dad in the early 80's in a car accident. I would give anything in the world to have known he was going to be leaving this earth. I would have wanted to let the world know everything we did and how much I enjoyed spending every second of every day with him. So please if you don't want to read the post or if you think it is that boring then just don't click on it. It is hurting no one by having it on here and I for one enjoy getting the updates. Keep up the good work Drooze and crew. We will be there as soon as we can.

[SSDiv6]

Originally Posted by Floyd Gomez

Why are so many bashing this thread. Has anyone here read the reason they are doing this? Here is a quote from a post by Mr. David(Droozes Dad)

People keep asking "why", and the probably the best answer was given... Because we can. I will only say this once because I don't dwell on it, but life is too short (have a Doctor tell you that you have 6-9 months to live and see if you don't agree with me.) and nobody is promised tomorrow. Getting this car down the track and actually being more than competitive is on my Bucket list... And it is the only thing there, that hasn't been accomplished yet... So why do we do it? Because we have to do it and we do it with a sense of urgency that sometimes overcomes common sense.... But we will keep going as long as we can... And we WILL get it done.

David
The New Hemi Guy

Here is a guy that is doing whatever he can to help his dad fulfill a bucket list. He drove accross the country, didn't make it in time and you have never heard them complain. He didn't gripe because NHRA wouldn't let them in or give them a refund. He just simply documented a time with his Father that soon will only be great memory. I lost my dad in the early 80's in a car accident. I would give anything in the world to have known he was going to be leaving this earth. I would have wanted to let the world know everything we did and how much I enjoyed spending every second of every day with him. So please if you don't want to read the post or if you think it is that boring then just don't click on it. It is hurting no one by having it on here and I for one enjoy getting the updates. Keep up the good work Drooze and crew. We will be there as soon as we can.

Well said!!!

[Andys dad]

It is not bashing

I am sure we all have well and good reason to do what we do

We have all had extraordinary things happen on our road trips

I am just saying it belongs in the lounge

If I or anyone else started posting BLOGS here they would be gone in 60 seconds

[Harry 6674]

Originally Posted by Andys dad

It is not bashing

I am sure we all have well and good reason to do what we do

We have all had extraordinary things happen on our road trips

I am just saying it belongs in the lounge

If I or anyone else started posting BLOGS here they would be gone in 60 seconds

Not bashing? How about that TV show crack from Nees with the dumb as a stump dad? Is that classless or what? Totally.

[CrateCamaro]

The car I race was built by my father and me and he was full of cancer head to toe when we to were building it and that was one of the things on his "bucket list"...build and race a car that resembled what he raced in the 70's. And we did it...he raced a week before he died. But people are right...this is a forum flood. Anything over 70 posts should be in the lounge. Im sure if you asked, class racer sould put up a spot just for you guys to post updates on your build and the troubles you fellas are having keeping these hi tech machines together. I would check it out for sure but its too much reading....love the chat but when there is 90 line and 500++ word replys its not enjoyable to read. Im interested in the factory produced race cars and wish I could afford to build or own one. Thats the only reason why I check these posts out.

[stock2029]

did they make it to indy? have not heard any updates.

[Floyd Gomez]

Yes they made it to Indy. Ran 11.5 popping in high gear and was running rich last night. They were tuning the car this morning but haven't heard anything yet.