Menards Chevy Show
Menards Chevy Show October 13-14th, 2018 October in Virginia. What a beautiful countryside and part of our great country. We rolled into top-class Virginia Motorsports Park on Friday night and found a little piece of ground to camp out for the night. We woke early on Saturday and weaved our way through the lines of racers, show cars and attendees and into our area in the pits for the Great Lakes Nostalgia Funny Car Circuit's 6 funny cars in attendance. We pulled the car out of the trailer and set up our pit. Denny Salzwimmer stopped by and let the team know the driver meeting was at noon in the tower. We service the car, filling with fuel and getting ready to fire up in preparation for round one. The warm up was successful and we set the pill for the first round. Check the tires and slicks for pressure. Pack the chutes. Top off the fuel. Let's get ready to line up for round one. We're paired up with Johnny K and his Pol-Cal Corvette as the first pair of cars. The plan is big burnout, dry hops, hammer down and pull chute at 1320. We get the signal to fire up the cars. My crew squirts the fuel in the injector, hit the ignition and squeeze a bit more fuel to keep the engine running til the pump catches up. The Quarter Pounder roars to life. The crew detach the cable for the starter and put the body down on the car. We both roll forward to and then through the water box and start our burnouts. It's a big smokey burnout out to about 900 ft or so. Put it in reverse [...]