I can be mature about this. I really will try for a paragraph or so. I've been disciplining myself not to blow up on this blog until I have a chance to process and let the dust settle on motorsnorts issues. I really wonder how much snorting..or returning to snorting.. some of the drag racing world has been doing this year. As the season for racing is leaving and the one for retrospective returning, I'll neatly sidestep the analogies to Jeb Allen as a 17 yr. old, surrounded by love n' support at LIONS...and just avoid the whole kid in the jet car day from hell in Canada. I'm sure everyone had totally pure motives and no marketing avarice was involved. She was Shelly Anderson-and-more..and the Barbie-i-zation of the sport is now a distant, disturbing part of our history at the end of the last century. Whew. What a relief. Right........

A group of former Tacoma Timing Association members n' friends are reputed to meet once a month for lunch and bench racing. Out of this circle, which seems to include Walt Austin's orig. gang, are reports the vehicle Bob Haines brought out ( for what is well documented by Dr. Post as one of the first full-on tours by a Top Fuel op. from the left side of the country into the midwest) in 1959 with Jack Cross is being readied for well-researched reenactment. If anyone can find the famous "anguished" DRAG NEWS letter JoAnn Haines wrote Doris Herbert in the summer of '60, it would make a great feature in lieu of the usual framed "this car set a record at Desert Drag Strip and was Mr. Match Race #4 overall that year.." stat sheet we usually enjoy at such static resto displays.