Event Coverage Duct Tape Drags Tucson

I'm at the races in Tucson. Wrenchbender and Max are here. I'm just showing Plan II.

 

anyone there needs to take pics to share here

 

Fun Times @squirrel that sure looks like Falfa's Nightmare, forget that yellowy green thing...

 

Squirrel it was good to chat with you today every time I look at your Chevy 2 I learn something new

 

...Plan II is the result of many Years of collaboration and R&D with a Nuts On Team of Squirrels...

Go Squirrel Go!!!

Even if your not racing...Thanks for sharing your journey in go fast..Always...

Any Show Pics?...Street legal Altered...dual dilable Hotrod personalities..so much to know...

Credit to all that Inspired this
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A little late to make the trip now.. Should be a nice below 100 degree weekend and NO rain.

PICS PLEASE !

 

I'll try to remember to get more pictures today

 

a few more pics. Not much HAMB friendly stuff there, but enough to make it interesting.



Freiburger negotiating whether the truck is worth $3k or less. The consensus was that we all wanted to see it race, so they let it in the Budget Beater race. Randy is in there somewhere.



This shirt was available for purchase at the 2020 Zip Tie Drags...the Duct Tape drags is a sort of pandemic replacement for it, put on by Tucson Dragway, rather than by Motortrend. Pretty cool to have my car on a shirt.



A neat 55. There were several.



The F rod, from Roadkill Garage, I think. It's quick, and looks pretty traditional, mostly...if you squint.








63 Avanti, customized in the 70s. Pretty rare to see one of these cars so well neglected. The owner wants to put a Paxton on it, of course. Drove over from California. Yes, he slept in the tent two nights.

 

Thanks @squirrel and Yeah!! Ink on a Shirt...Looks Good!! Congrats

 

@squirrel

Thnx for the pics.. Wish I had known about it, Would have drove down and said HEY THERE !

 

Thanks for the pic Jim. Freiburger and dulcich first said the truck was too expensive then when I raised the hood and he seen the blower I had had adapted to the 4 barrel intake he was blown away and was super excited about it then he pumped the crowd up and approved us he later came and looked at the truck said he was sold once he seen the engine and was really excited about it I just wish it had run better than it did but we raced it all weekend and really didn’t have any major trouble with it next up is to run drag week next year with it we have already started getting it sorted out

 

@squirrel found this on bangshift

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Well that’s cool. Thanks for sharing, Squirrel.

 

Well what the heck did it run, and what’s under the blower?

 

This one belongs to @SamIyam somebody that needs to get his ass back here and posting more. Did I mention I hate IG?

 

So I am out of the loop on these duct tape drags. What’s the deal? I don’t have cable.

 

From a Google search of https://www.tucsondragway.com

Freiburger announces Duct Tape Drags at Tucson Dragway!
Check it out! Our good friends David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan have a special announcement for our new event October 1st and 2nd, right here at Tucson Dragway, The Duct Tape Drags! MotorTrend has cancelled the Zip-Tie Drags and is NOT affiliated with the event. It will include a cruise from the Los Angeles area on Friday, and bonfire and beer that night. On Saturday there’s low-buck drags, grudge drags, Freiburger’s cars on track, a car show, and the usual fun!

 

Low buck is a relative term.

 

Yes I heard recently that It affects the users...come back here where it's safe...

 

Best pass was a16.23 @ 89mph it has a stone stock 1977 dodge 318 and only 4lbs of boost however it did out run elana scherr’s turbo trans am lol the 3.23 gears with a 30” tall tire didn’t help either lol

 

yes it is but this was the best pairing of 16 second cars ever lol

 

@squirrel found another on bangshift

 

THanks, I was looking there too, and saw this. I don't remember seeing Wes there, but he got photo credits. I did see him on Drag Week last month.

 

Kool ! Thanks !

 

I didn't see any duct tape. False advertising?

 

Oh, you had to be there.

 

Trust me there was plenty of it the floor in our truck had it on the bottom side when we used it to keep the fiberglass in we put on top of it too fill in the holes in it lol we are probly eventually replace them all together

 

That’s still a fun ride in a pickup!
The LA engines are tough bastards. I had one years back showing no oil pressure and a slight miss. Went to change the oil and saw a rod poking out of the block!
I pulled it apart for grins, crank was a damned mess. But the danged thing ran up and out back to move stuff around for a few months, just short runs, before I ever got to looking at it.