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i love going to sobo, wcs, ocs, and occasionally caraway speedway

the best track was southern national before it was put up for sale

8/10/2009 10:47:12 PM

i was raised at southern national. we were there a lot. my dad built motors for john whaley in what they used to call the super stock class, if you remember the name. we built some pure stock motors too. also built ford 9" rears for a ton of cars out there. built several for junior mewborn, the famous cone-kicker.

there's a PASS South race coming up at Southern National in a few weeks. i'm gonna try to go. should be awesome. SNS is pretty much Bristol minus 1/10th of a mile. i saw kurt bush testing out there one day several years ago.

we built whaley's motors the year he won the super stock track championship. also had a pure stock title won that same year w/ our motors.

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 10:54 PM. Reason : fdas]

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM. Reason : there's also hickory and jacksonville. do they still have the track up near wilson?]

8/10/2009 10:53:00 PM

damn

john whaley used to dominate.

i havent been out to coastal plains, little too far of a drive for me.

try to go watch the uara and pass series though.

went to caraway a few weeks back and watched a 5,000 to win late model race that was pretty good.

i just try to go to the big races when i can

8/10/2009 11:00:51 PM

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"F1 at Monaco, Isle of Mann TT "

honestly if the rules were not gay as fuck in f1 and there was more competiton, I would watch more. there isnt really anything fun about watching 14-21 guys on a 4 mile track, and if they so much as scratch on the car the race is over for them, those car are so aero sensitve its not fun to watch.

I love bikes as much as the next person, but there really isnt a grass roots bike class(to my knowledge), I see track days, and novice type classes, but again, back to the level of competetiveness(sp) just isnt that exciting to me.

but feel free to talk about it, thats whta this thread is kind of about

8/10/2009 11:03:56 PM

i forgot about robersonville

yeah, whaley is/was a chassis genius. he would have the car so hooked up through the corner that we just couldn't build motors that could handle that kind of sustained rpms within the super stock rules.

do you remember the night that he popped a motor in practice, went back to the shop, swapped in an old motor that was sitting on the shop floor, unloaded the car outside of the track, pulled in through the outer gate, started dead last, and won by half a lap? that was our motor he broke

8/10/2009 11:04:00 PM

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"do they still have the track up near wilson?]"

sir WTF is wilson, i only know of wilTson

8/10/2009 11:05:01 PM

i forgot

btw, whaley is still running out at jacksonville (coastal plains raceway) every now and then. he won a race or two this year i believe.

8/10/2009 11:06:03 PM

to put things in perspective, my dad was building motors and doing set-ups for a team of him and his buddies and they ran on wayne county speedway back before it was ever paved. now they have a drag strip and they put dirt on top of the asphalt and the circle track is for sale.

my mom won a powderpuff race out there when it was dirt with a broken axle and only one wheel pulling.

8/10/2009 11:09:30 PM

County Line Raceway is in Elm City, not Wilson. And yes, they're still rubbin' and racin' out there.

8/10/2009 11:15:43 PM

at least i'll know where to look for help when i get started

(i have said for the past few yrs i wanna run the street stocks or 4 cylinders somewhere

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 11:17 PM. Reason : .]

8/10/2009 11:15:51 PM

^^COUNTY LINE!!! i couldn't remember the name to save my life. that's where my dad got started.

^dude, seriously give me a holler. i might can talk my dad into building you a ford 4 banger or a chevy 350 if you get serious about it.

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 11:18 PM. Reason : street stock = pure stock to me]

8/10/2009 11:17:41 PM

well im looking to get ina UCAR before the season is over, or at least have one built that will be competitive next season.
tryin to get in an early 90s saturn

8/10/2009 11:19:06 PM

oh hell yes, county line is still dirt. definitely gonna make it out there some time.

8/10/2009 11:19:48 PM

my "home" track was east carolina and we call 4 cylinders super stock 4s and the pure stocks are what the kids run.

back in the early 90s dale jr ran a late model sportsman there a few times

8/10/2009 11:20:20 PM

i'm used to having two 4 cyl classes. stock 4 and modified 4.

so in yours, stock 4 = pure stock?

pure stock to me was the class w/ hydraulic cam 350s and automatic powerglide transmissions

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 11:22 PM. Reason : east carolina is robersonville, right?]

8/10/2009 11:22:10 PM

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"automatic powerglide transmissions "

damn, really? i did not know that

8/10/2009 11:24:27 PM

it's cool to hear someone use the terms late model sportsman and late model stock. those have pretty much been dropped across the board now.

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM. Reason : ^yeah, it was a pretty cool class. they changed the name to street stock. late 70s camaro bodies]

8/10/2009 11:24:35 PM

yeah, its a little strange but thats how they have always done things

back when bombers were super popular, they used to have so many bombers on sat nights that they would have to run 2/3 races of just bombers


i guess ucars are whats in among cheap entry level classes now

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 11:27 PM. Reason : yeah ecms is in robersonville, it used to be the place to be in the early-mid 90s]

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 11:27 PM. Reason : yeah they did haha]

8/10/2009 11:25:13 PM

oh fuck, they did change the name to bombers. those were the 350 hydraulic cam motors with powerglides, right?

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 11:27 PM. Reason : yeah, i remember a lot of folks getting pissed at SNS and going to robersonville]

8/10/2009 11:26:56 PM

we should go check out a race sometime

my girlfriend doesnt really like the local stuff

8/10/2009 11:32:09 PM

i'm one step ahead of you. PM already sent.

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 11:33 PM. Reason : my gf loves that shit. seems like ragged's girl does too.]

8/10/2009 11:32:52 PM

NRR, sounds like your dad and mine might have crossed paths at some point, or at least ran in the same circles...

8/11/2009 12:09:28 AM

yeah, probably so.

8/11/2009 7:06:46 AM

i want you to go out there and hit the pace car!

what? the pace car?

yeah, go out and hit the pace car!

why?

BECAUSE YOU'VE HIT EVERY DAMN THING ELSE OUT THERE AND I WANT YOU TO BE PERFECT!

8/11/2009 10:31:55 AM

let meh out tha ca' cole!

8/11/2009 10:44:31 AM

I WASN'T IGNORING YOU!

8/11/2009 10:46:13 AM

dude, i couldn't believe OCS didn't have those damn fake cheese nachos. they were always my favorite track food

8/11/2009 12:14:29 PM

next time i go back im gettin a waffle cone

8/11/2009 12:16:38 PM

yeah, i regretted not getting one. sat there smelling them all damn night.

8/11/2009 12:17:11 PM

alright boys my buddy Dale, is gonna get top 5 this weekend

8/13/2009 1:30:50 PM

if he can't do it at michigan, he can't do it anywhere

8/13/2009 1:32:00 PM

He will lose son.

8/13/2009 1:32:36 PM

hopefully, son

8/13/2009 1:33:28 PM

i cant wait for another match up with him and kyle at richmond.

cousin carl will win

8/13/2009 1:33:58 PM

fuck i wanna go to the fall richmond race so bad

gonna have to wait until next year after i gradumacate

8/13/2009 1:35:36 PM

you still gona live in rawleigh

8/13/2009 1:47:37 PM

depends on work. hopefully i'll be down around sanford, so close enough.

8/13/2009 1:48:21 PM

so did you see kyle act like a little bitch today?

8/16/2009 2:27:32 AM

oh yeah i watch all of it. i cant belive kyle came at him like that. motherfucker, he was blocking you, he is supposed to slow you down. i hate vickers, but i dont see where he did anything wrong

8/16/2009 2:30:03 AM

vickers didn't do a damn thing. it was racin' and kyle is just a whiny little baby who thinks he should win every week.

i'm starting to kinda like keselowski. he's got a good attitude.

8/16/2009 2:32:12 AM

bad thing about brad is i dont see him doing all that well in the cup series. cant wait for him to win busch tho

8/16/2009 2:37:38 AM

jr doesn't win in cup either and you still pull for him

8/16/2009 2:38:26 AM

haha thats my point. i hope brad stays a busch driver, like ron horniday is in the truck series

8/16/2009 2:39:37 AM

i feel like vickers said what everyone has been thinking all season about kyle with the whole "this isn't the kyle busch show and i didn't know i was supposed to let him win" shit

that was good to me

8/16/2009 2:41:34 AM

hell yea, i like how he called him out too. i was gonna fight but then he ran away.

8/16/2009 2:42:48 AM

haha yeah

i would love to see some of these guys get out there in late models at a local short track and just take their frustrations out with their fenders and then throw some punches afterwards. they're too scared of having points docked to behave like they did back in the day (the way it should be)

8/16/2009 2:46:04 AM

ray evernham should invite them to race at his track on an off week.

8/16/2009 2:48:08 AM

hell yeah. can you imagine having the busch brothers, jr, tony stewart, vickers, the ambiguously gay duo jimmie johnson and jeff gordon, robby gordon, and mr. excitement jimmy spencer all thrown out on wake county speedway in some limiteds or something? that would be awesome. go ahead and have a boxing ring set up for afterwards. who else could we throw in that race?

8/16/2009 2:51:45 AM

montoya, and kasey just for a pretty boy image, id like to see kenseth out there. its funny when they interview him wen he has sunglasses on it looks like hes crying

8/16/2009 2:56:50 AM

I'm going to take this opportunity to point out how much I hate Robby Gordon.

8/16/2009 9:58:49 AM