"Live From" NHRA 4-Wide National zMAX Dragway

[FINESPLINE]

The NMW freewheeling hubs and tow bars and tow tabs were manufactured in New Jersey.

[Tom P]

Tow hubs would be easy to make nowadays with a lot of cars having sealed front wheel bearings that bolt to a flange on the spindle. Wheels with a ton of backspace are also simple to get.

[Tim H]

Originally Posted by FINESPLINE

The NMW freewheeling hubs and tow bars and tow tabs were manufactured in New Jersey.

I still have my set of NMW tow hubs, haven't used them since 1982 !

[Ken Miele]

Hey guys, I hate to hijack this thread, but I'm going to do a "Live From" at the 4 Wide if you don't mind.

Here is my new ace photo specialist Sal Biondo with the eye in the sky photos of zMAX Dragway. Sal could not resist this photo op as he flew over the track.







The next set of photos are Ron Matcham's 1965 one owner Shelby GT 350. Ron's here racing his CJ, but will stick around next week for the 50 anniversary of the Mustang and will be part of the show.

The Shelby is very cool and perfect in everyway, just like it rolled of the showroom in 1965.

[modelman1960]

Good morning Ken,
Re-take the thread...................... and can anyone let us know if NHRA is going to audiocast this event. The site is still displaying the information for the Gatornationals. I hope to hear all the e.t.s while I'm working.
Thanks Ken and all have a safe and successful race weekend.
Walt

[jmcarter]

Didn't look like a hijack to me (no more than tow hubs anyway), for those that haven't been to zMAX it is one amazing facility...everybody on asphalt and a great layout. Just hard to believe they only have two events at the track all year! The NASCAR track has something going all the time, it's a great track and you can't appreciate the elevation changes and corners without being there. Missed going to their Spring Auto Fest last weekend, big turnout of about every car club and vendor in the East.

Thanks Ken for the pics and reports. Good luck with the firebird, sure it knows how to find the winner's circle.

[Ken Miele]

Thanks Walt.

Good morning everyone, stock should be called to the lanes very soon. We start at 8. They started working on the track early morning, 5 or so. The weather for you weather nuts is as follows.

Temp 58
Humidity 49%
Bar 29.56
DA 786
Wind tail 2-4 mph


Be back later...

[Alex Denysenko]

Originally Posted by FINESPLINE

The NMW freewheeling hubs and tow bars and tow tabs were manufactured in New Jersey.

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure that NMW stood for New Milford Welding and I though they were in CONNETCUT
We used their hubs and a home made tow bar untill 1978 when I bought my first trailer we used to sleep in the back of our pick up or a tent way back when we could not afford motels.

[FINESPLINE]

Originally Posted by Alex Denysenko

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure that NMW stood for New Milford Welding and I though they were in CONNETCUT
We used their hubs and a home made tow bar untill 1978 when I bought my first trailer we used to sleep in the back of our pick up or a tent way back when we could not afford motels.

I believe they were made in a warehouse on River ave. in Hackensack ,N.J.

[Bob Don]

Yo Ken - Thanks for the reports, photos and videos. I wish the hi-jackers would start their own thread and leave this one alone. C'mon guys, you're pissing Ken off!