Freightrain

Pull my 40 ft. race car trailer typically.

Ya, I've done that, keep clicking links to all kinds of stuff. 

YouTube?

Hey!!  Glad to see you back around.  Dang, sorry about the hip.  Ugh, don't want to think about things like that.  

I hurt the motor in the wagon, cracked a cylinder.  In process of building something new.  Only got 19 years out of that block, no regrets.

Oh, the ol "washed up phone" routine.  Ya, sometimes that's not such a good thing to happen.

I searched online and no news reports.  Definitely someone changed lanes snd the two trucks got tangled at least.  I wondered since 62 was closed if there wasn't a vehicle over that embankment that I couldn't see?

I was caught in that mess.  I was only 1\2 mile behind it on my way home.  I was going to run through town but jumped on it 30 and north 77.  We were parked for about 20 minutes before they started to let traffic around on left berm.

Didn't realize what had happened until I got right up on it. I was in far left lane and all the trucks blocked my view.  Everyone played nice and merged together to get around.  They had blocked 62 East ramp so there must have been something on that ramp also??

I saw a med duty sized service truck diagonal in front of steel truck and I saw whatever was on trailer was into the rear of the bunk.  I tried to snap a picture but I'm not as handy as Otherdog and I missed it.  I wasn't going to hold up traffic and get the shot.

I've been curious about the accident but haven't read/seen anything about it myself.

We're you passing through?

He was 6'-1, 320# when we tried to fit him in.  He is down to 280# and slowly working to get even lower.  I'm only 5-10 and 170# so I fit well.  I can stretch my left leg out under the dash and drive comfortably.

Ya, I've known him for a very long time.  He would have caught on to the two sticks with a little time behind the wheel.   I don't have many people I know that could even come close to getting it moving, let alone drive it down the street.  I'd like to see/hear it go down the road, but no one can drive it?

A friend has a son that runs with a NHRA top fuel team.  He has switched teams a few times over the years and currently with Schumacher Racing.  He was blower man, but been a while since I had an update and can't say what he does now.

Well, don't really have a home track anymore. Yes, this is a good state to be in if you like drag racing.  Lots of tracks to choose from and typically only an hour away from anyplace in the state.

In 1995 I started at Magnolia dragstrip in Magnolia, Ohio.  Then I started to go to places like Dragway 42, then Quakercity, Norwalk, National Trails.  Running the all stick shift group we travel around NE Ohio and even Milan, Michigan and Pittsburgh, PA.  The UMTR started in 2006.  It is a throw back to the early days of racing.

www.umtrnorth.com

I did spent a good portion of my racing career at Dragway 42 in West Salem.  Had lots of good times, ran points for many years.  Ran from about 1997 to 2006.  It finally got sold about 4 yrs ago and the current owner is completely rebuilding the place.  Hope to have it finished next year?

Have you seen the reports of people in Florida where whole allotments were built on old swamp land.  Now, 5 yrs later they find their property starting to settle and fall into the abyss(sink hole).  Nothing they can do or say.  They'll loose everything and no insurance to cover it.  I'll bet there will be a bunch of law suits over it.

It was meant as a tongue-in-cheek kind of sarcasm.  Just like all the "assault" weapons, guns, that get banned because bad people use them.  It's the fault of the person using it, not the item used.

Hi BillyT.  I just turned 50 on Sunday(ugh).  Got plenty of gray hair though......

Can't say I know of the company you speak of.

No problem.  I can't work on it til this Sunday anyhow.  Too much going on.

I'm just curious as to the alum tube part.  I'm not sure the R model will be long enough to get back to the firewall to attach to a B model.  If not, then I might as well just get my own flexible tubing and attach it.  I've seen other B models do the same kind of thing.   So if you can get me a basic length of long the tube is, from the 180* bend.

Thanks.

Is a picture possible?

That's the hiccup.  I can likely make something from scrap stuff cheaper then the cost of getting yours shipped to me.

Is it just the elbow or does it have the convoluted piping that goes back to air cleaner?  I know that stuff will likely not do me much good, as I'm thinking I might just get some thick rubber 4" tubing.  I'm just kinda in limbo til I get the passenger fender on it to see what I have to work with.  The exhaust clamp nightmare is what I'm trying to finish up before installing the fender.  Much easier to work on without having to crawl over that.

You can use "PAINT" in microsoft windows to resize pictures. Photobucket also has a resize function.

Welcome aboard. You are not the only female here. Just had a recent new member that is a truck driver.

Watch, as if it's on computer screen like mine was, they will trick you with asking you the same question but leave out a different part.

Mine is 206", what's another 18"? Definitely won't turn sharp anymore.