Some Horizontal Bop..........

Jeff Burk keeps pushing an interesting appearing site for a shockingly wide cross-section of fans and racers. His is one of the few sources I can count on for heartland match race coverage and perspective; room for favorite nutsos like a hero of mine, Cliff Gromer-who also sheltered Tony DeFeo in his prime..not to mention the ongoing presence of the Brunt Bros. I read MOPAR ACTION for their writing more than for the car features, themselves. The Brunts can make New Years streamers out of toilet paper. Mr. Burk, however, keeps doing this all things to all fans running commentary on the No Hot Rods Anymore circuit. Does he not see the empty stands at the UnNatural Events? Does he not realize that the midwest combined fan count at pro street, outlaw SS, PM matches, indie shows at Cordova, UDRA etc. outdraws the likely total east of the rockies ticket count of what Glendora continues to sell as da Major Leagues? Note that little unofficial poll at Irwindale a few weeks back where the assembled punters proved they could care less about millionaire multi-car teams with identical uniforms, haircuts and personalities. Drag Racing Online is a wonderful presentation. It continues to be cluttered with an increasingly unaffordable and inconsequential headline act.

To reinterate my request from the upcoming Full Throttle News column---rack your brains for the likely lineage of a car based out of VanPort/Longview WA in the early '80's...a '65 Don Long digger run by Bob Caldwell known, at the time, as Beyond Thunderdome. We need history to properly research and reenact this great black digger.

Greetings..........

This is the somewhat more spontaneous epilogue for the 21st century of the written appreciation of our sport which I danced around during the daze of Nitronic Research.
I will do my best to pull few punches, while attempting respect for scene and subject.
Drag racing is getting more complicated all the time; possibly more so than any era since
Lions was shut down. There is beauty in this. Also, more form for possibility. More features,
more classes. More, if one looks at the very BIG definition of our sport- not making one
proportionally small interest define it all. I am actively suiting up and showing up at
everything from pro street cars and bikes to Goodguys points meets. I intend to publish
observations with dear "Unk" Richard Heath for as long as his benefactors allow. I am
not deluded into thinking that such a large wallet-laden sport such as which exists for
commercial reembursment today will tolerate much opinion. So many...how the kids
say today?...nuances of the sport are active, however, to keep 'em down on the farmyard
of their minds...until such a time as mind expansion creates such inclusivness that will
encourage simultaneous, interdependence as we've seen in the past when FUN was
overriding.
I'm NOT doing this daily! I DO welcome nonflammable dialogue--face to face and
professionally performed would be preferred. Stay independent--see you at Kent
Sat. at the GGuys meet-------ask for me at the Winged Exress pits.