Part of what hurt drag racing

[Eric Merryfield]

Originally Posted by Jeff Goss

My 18 year old Son has no interest in driving my Super Stocker.

However, he is about to get a Subaru WRX, and likes the idea of hopping it up and running it down the quarter mile.

The customer base is changing.

That is true, my kids had zero interest in driving junior dragsters, but were at the track day one with their drivers licences and parent wavers..........my 17 year old after proving she could drive a gremlin(tougher than you think) drove my dragpak...then raced it a couple of times this year....after a bracket truck.....the 16 year old son after experiencing that "red button thing" on the gremlin, thinks everthing should have a linelock, and has zero interest in racing a street car....He wants a linelock in the one ton farm truck he drives to school, and would like it to have headers and a freeflow exhaust just like many kids or all ages....Of course they have been exposed to this since 06 or so, so they likely have more interest in it than others.

Their friends at school may have the pimped out turbo this, and turbo that. But there is only one iconic "farm truck"

My daughter and I will never forget our trip to Indy to pick up the dragpak and tow it to Bristol on the featherlite open trailer for its first event for us. Many asked at gas stations, etc, it was very fun. Its much nicer to look in your review and grin, than look at the front of your enclosed. It went to epping, and lebanon this year for the divisionals and the national event that same way.

Eric