And a Drag Racer is Born

As jon sits in his dads garage he watrches as bill his dad works on his brand new 68 mustang. 428 cobra jet and a drag pack this is the coolest car in town. With a isky cam this car takes the gates at 10:50 which beats almost anything on the streets these days. Bill crawls out from under the car and yells to jon to hand him this and that in order to get prepared for tonights race. The carb dialed in, the tires set to 13.5 psi and then it is retimed and put in the trailer. Jons dad didn’t buy this car to drive it was a dedicated racecar with license plates for Friday nights.

Bill pulls the truck into the driveway and hooks up to the trailer with jon helping to guide him back. At only 15 jon is astonished when bill fi

After the drivers meeting bill rode as jon drove the car to tech inspection to make sure the car was race worthy. As the tech looked over the car checking the neutral safety and rollbar jon realized the dangers that existed at high speed, quickly he dismissed this from his head as he showed the tech that the fuel cell in the trunk alongsinde the battery was properly secured. And that the master cutoff switch jon had forgot to turn on actually worked. When the inspection was over the tech placed a green dot next to the 357 sticker on the passenger window. Form here they drove back to the pits to wait for their number to be called.

As they speed down the highway bill informs jon that this is his time and that he will teach him how to stage and launch his $50,000 car for the first time. Jon nearly leaps out of his seat to thank his father and ask him if it is really ok if he drives tonight. Bill tells him that he checked with the track and that jon meets the requirements as there are classes for younger kids that jon competed in all the time he grew up. The rest of the ride is a nighmare for jon. As sooon as his father told him he could drive, the whole worlu turned to slow motion. The lines on the road seemed to be a mile long.

As they made there way to the track office the addenilene once again shot off into jons system fighting the jitters he walked tall next to his father as they entered and shook the hands of the track owner and the other officials. As the meeting started jon realized that he already knew all the rules. The official running the staging area owned the rights over every car in the event, no burnout until the flag is waved you way a circular motion is made with the guys hand, once at prestage, your left hand goes out the window to show that you have the car in neutral and that the official has control of the cars. The track manager shouts the last rules as jon runs them though his head one last time.

As jon pulled onto the starting lineup of cars he noticed how hard it was to keep it running. Bill told him to just keep an even pressure on the pedal and that it sounds rough but it’ll keep it goin. Jon was sixth in line to race than night. Once in line bill told him to shut the car down so as not to overheat. Soon enough it was jons turn he would race against a 71 chevelle SS 396 but first he had to learn to do a burnout to both clean and get the tires warm. Bill instructed jon to drive around the waterbox to avoid getting the front tires wet which he would want dry to steer with. Once around he backed into the box and put the car in low gear. Bill showed him how to engage the line lock by pushing the brake pedal and holding it then pushing a button mounted on th

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