Tucson, Arizona
May 5-6, 2017
by Conrad Monroe
Photos and information from Alan Mitchell.
Last weekend while Michelle and I were driving around the state, Alan & Cheryl Mitchell and Charlie & Danise Cover were down in Tuscon driving a quarter of a mile at a time at the Tucson Dragway Reunion.
Alan brought down his 1939 Chevy Gasser Coupe, Blown BBC sporting a new Turbo 400. Charlie had his 1937 Ford Street Rod, powered by an injected LS3/4L65E Plug & Cruise package from Chevrolet Performance.
Alan & Charlie at the Track
In Alan’s own words…
“Charlie ran test & tune and turned a best of a 12.3 or 12.8 (I think) . He made 4 or 5 passes trying various techniques at burnouts and shifting. By the way the Speed Sport guys were all over his car. They totally loved his car as well as every female that walked by. As Charlie said, he did not realize he built a “chick magnet”.
As for us, after all the changes we ran a best of 10.8. Not what I expected but all the new parts worked good. Was entered into the eliminations, but being the rule follower I am, I had installed an engine diaper which held in a lot of block temp and thus heat-soaked the starter when we were in staging getting ready to run, so had to withdraw. So will get rid of the diaper, and install another battery. The driver did “ok” with the new parts, have a few little bugs to work out but nothing big.
Weather was terrible with winds in the 20mph range, no track prep and lots of dust so track was greasy. All in all good times, nothing broke on either car and all was safe. Looking forward to our next event, don’t know where yet. Maybe next year we can get a few more cars out to Tucson for T&T. Tech was pretty easy so with just a few checks we should be able to get more cars on the track.”
http://www.tucsondragway.com/tucson-dragway-reunion/
I was quite happy to see the kind of times that Charlie was turning. I have the same drivetrain in my 1940 Ford Convertible build. Looks like it will be a pretty fun street machine… 😎
I would like to thank Alan for sending me the photos and his write up. The club has been doing a lot of very neat things lately which Michelle and I have not attended due to our living 180 miles away. It would be great if more members would send me their photos and some notes on the activity that they attended.
Michelle and I will be in Payson this Saturday for the car show. We are not entered, just coming down for the day to see our friends…
Until the next time… Keep On Keeping On… !