Projects Gene (Moonlighter) Cromer's A/G Willys Resurrection

He was making the Willys sing tonight

 

I don't know what he's doing with the keys, they are not for the Moonlighter. It doesn't have a key switch.

 

I am kinda partial to the 1st pic, that's me towing Gene to the staging lane.

 

The Moonlighter was definitely running last night. Gene qualified 3rd out of 15 A/G cars and ran the quickest 1/8 mile since he has been running with the Southeast Gassers. He has been wanting to get into the 5's and he finally did it.

 

I have said it before and I will say it again the Cromer family definitely is a class act.

 

They are the kind of people that inspire us all. HRP

 

Danny, you should have been there! It was awesome. The ol' girl was running lean and popping, but she was haulin' ass. If Gene hadn't gone red in the 2nd round, I believe he could have beat the Silver Streak.

 

I am with you. Silver Streak had an issue off the line and if Gene hadn't of redlighted . I think he had him covered. He put on a great show Saturday night.

 

The time slip said Gene won. It didn't show red, it had a .001 light and said win at the bottom. They said he got a rear wheel light.

 

The Moonlighter Build on here is what reignited my love of the true Gassers. I finally made two races this year and neither was a disappointment. Mr, Cromer is one of my Heroes and I always Wish him the Best. The people such as yourself are truly blessed to know this man, his Team (Melvin) and his family. I got to meet a few of the other gasser people and all I have to say is "What a Fantastic group of people they are"!!

 

Thanks for posting the pics. I''ll have to skin my ignorance here, what's a "rear wheel light" ?

 

Sounds like he did a wheelie and the rear wheel broke the beam. BUT once that front wheel comes up and out of the beam that should have tripped the red bulb.

 

That pretty much explains all I know about it. I'm far from an expert on this, maybe Quain can explain it. We have a time slip for the scrapbook that's says .001 reaction and win at the bottom, nobody will know it was actually a red light. We had a fantastic time at BMP.

 

Frank,the headlight decals look like they are actually lit up! HRP

 

I would sure like to see a video of that run. Unless that track is running a real old system with a guard beam, I don't think it is possible to come out of the stage beam without a red light. If it is a 2 beam system.... the timer starts when the car moves out of the stage beam so it wouldn't be possible to leave the line and have the rear tires break the beam.

 

Yeah that does sound a little odd.

 

My old Gasser always broke the 60Ft. lights with the back tires and jerked the wheels out of the staging beams. I never had that issue. I was looking right down the starting line and Gene obviously left a little early.

 

On some of the older systems, if the front tires go up without going forward first it will not start the clock until the rear tires break the beam. but the ET will be a lot faster than normal. Had a FED that would do that, ran one second quicker when it jumped.

 

It could be the .001 was a red light by one thousand of a second or almost a .000 perfect light.

 

I think if the time slip showed .001 and WIN for Gene... That should have stood. I would still like to see a video.

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I watched the run and saw Gene move with the yellows on. He redlighted and it was a malfunction that gave him the reaction time and the win. Like I said before I was looking right across the starting line.
I always try to position my self there so I can see the tree and the cars when I am not racing.

 

To clear everything up, at this track a .400 would be a perfect reaction time for a 4 tenths pro tree. Looks like Gene left .399 too soon.

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Gene left just a touch before the tree was activated so no red light because the tree had not started the count down. (easy to see in person and will be in the video when it comes out) Then with perfect timing the rear wheels hit the stage beam as the tree started down. Now the computer don't know if it was the front or rear wheels in the beam so it works as normal. I have seen it happen many times with out even a red light if the timing was perfect. The dead give away is the 60 times, I'll bet Cromer had a top fuel funny car 60 foot time and his finish line ET was probably about 10th of a second to fast.
Even a guard been can't stop this because the tree wasn't activated yet. Gene just got excited and left LOL.

 

I try and never miss the opportunity to thank Quain for all his hard work and dedication,not only with the SEG but his not taking no for a answer when he first approached Gene with the idea of resurrecting the Moonlighter and getting Gene back in the drivers seat! HRP

 

Reminds me of a line from an old Waylon Jennings song:
"That's wanting to go, Hoss"
Thanks to everybody that gave an explanation for what happened.

 

Old drag racing saying.
"If you don't redlight once in a while you're not trying hard enough".

 

I can't argue with that! (See this week's re-cap!)

 

Thanks Hotrodprimer, most don't even know I had anything to do with it now that's it's several years later.

 

Funny all the guys I know call it Quain's gasser group.

 

I tried to give it away this past weekend when things were not going my way, nobody wanted it LOL. Can't blame them because if I knew what I knew now I wouldn't have it either.