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Bill Grace's 1960 Pontiac Ventura is definitely one of the rarer vehicles on the property.
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The staging lanes were chock-full early Saturday morning. The ambulance at the front of the queue is in fact a race car...
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Syl Schied was putting on a great 'Spectical'.
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In the first round of D/Gas Harold Binsfield was against Anthony Bandy.
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Also in D/Gas, Ron Danly in the Anglia panel van was against the 'True Blue '37 Ford of Dan Martin.
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The Willys of Tim Avila against the '55 Chevrolet of Jamie Burt.
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Ken Brown's '52 Chevy Business Coupe approaches the burnout area.
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Eddie Plazier's '48 Anglia pulls another wheelie.
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Gabe Woods' Topolino is powered by an injected Big Block Chevy of 454cu in.
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In B/Gas, Boyd Ferry's '74 Camaro with a 632cu in engine faced Casey Treur's '33 Willys powered by a 565cu in Chevy.
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In NEI, Jimmy Morosan's Team Desperado slingshot is powered by a Donovan 417cu in engine. He went out in round one.
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Camping at Famoso Raceway is very popular, but we didn't see many tents.
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Steven Densham's Nostalgia Funny Car shares the trailer with father Gary's NHRA Funny Car. Steven qualified no.2 with 5.692.
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Roger Garten qualified no.14 with a 5.848, a time that would have been good for 6th place in 2013's event. Roger went out to Jason Rupert (Bays & Rupert Camaro) in round one.
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No.8 and 7 qualifiers were Jesse Adams (5.801) and Del Worsham (5.787). Both went out in round one.
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Jason Rupert was 2013 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series Champion and is into Sunday's round two after a close race in round one.
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Steve Easton in Bob Godfrey's '72 Cuda failed to make the cut with a best of 6.009. The bump spot was 5.904.
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Rick McGee qualified no.4 at 5.753/240 in his Donovan motored Top Fuel Dragster and won against Bill Dunlap in round one with a 5.879/232.
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Newly licensed Dusty Green in the Bob Richardson owned “Circuit Breaker” Top Fueler qualified no.10 with a 5,940 at only 200mph and went through to round two when opponent David Hirata broke.
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David Hirata, who has raced in Top Alcohol with an A/Fuel car in NHRA, has joined the Heritage Series and qualified 7th with a 5.82/223 before mechanical problems in round one of eliminations.
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The rear engined Top Fuel Dragster of Mike Stewart and Brad Thompson appears as a sole exhibition runner at Heritage events with Mike driving. Unusually for Top Fuel, the car has a Powerglide transmission.
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In an A/Gas match of unusual vehicles the '56 Nash Metropolitan of Gabe Wood, which bounces on its suspension as the blown engine 'hunts', was against the familiar-sounding Voodoo Hemi, KB-engined '35 Airflow of Richard Wilson. .
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The 1951 Kaiser Henry J owned and raced by Chris Beanes suffered sub-par times in qualifying but can run mid sevens in A/Gas.
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The '41 Willys of Jim Godec has a Dart 500 engine and qualified eighth.
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Rafael Quiroga's '57 Bel Air qualified 20th.
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A standard bodied '56 Chevy of Pete Cogswell runs a supercharged alky engine in A/Gas.
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Mark Tarabochia is from Oregon and his Cuda runs in 7.0 Pro category, where he qualified 13th with 7.15.
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Brad Denney's '32 Bantam has a KB 517cu in engine and he qualified 10th in 7.0 Pro with a 7.123.
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Rick Frye's '32 Willys powered by a 572cu in Chevy qualified 30th in NE1 with 8.207/175.
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No.1 qualifier Dan Horan's Mustang ran quickest time of the round with 5.683/258 to defeat Dale vanGundy's 5.904 in his Quarter Pounder Challenger.
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Steven Densham's advantage over Garrett Bateman in their first round matchup is from a 0.088 RT and 5.685 ET to Garrett's 0.149 RT and 5.893 ET.
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Brad Thompson in Jailbreak won against Jesse Adams in round one of Funny Car and faces Dan Horan in round two.
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In Top Fuel round one, Ron August had a holeshot victory over Terry Cox, 5.873 to 5.816.
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Adam Sorokin in the canopied 'Batmobile' Top Fueler ran a 5.783 when Jim Murphy stage fouled.
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In Saturday's second round of Fuel Altered qualifying Dean Oberg in the Toplino ran under the 6.0 index carding a too-quick 5.77 and Dan Hix is no.2 with a 6.385/209.
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Keith Wilson remains no.1 qualifier in Fuel Altered with a 6.26 at only 164mph.
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Pure Hell driven by Ron August Jnr will be racing in the UK in July and this iconic car is not to be missed.
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Pure Heaven III of Leon Fitzgerald driven by John Weaver is in fourth place with 6.797/201.
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