Re: Mopars at Thunder Valley

[MO <micher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Thanks Paul, that keeps my hpes up.  Doug, The track at Cedar Rapids
is a long standing good one.

Big things going on at Cordoba< IL. (just across the river at I-80 )
the weekend befor Labor day.  Some of the big guys stop there to test
their fuelers, etc. befor INDY.  A  Super Stock racer friend of mine
will be there as well( two 62-65 Nopars. He won their SS championship
last year................................MO

On Aug 17, 6:56 pm, Paul L <pjl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just had the racetrack owner on the local news tonight.  The river is
> starting to go down.  Slooooowly.  He said he was hoping the water
> would be gone before the winter freeze up.  The water covering the
> track is ground water as is a lot of the flooded ground around here.
> For the most part the river is contained by the levees, except a few
> places where they had breaches.  With the river level being as much as
> 10 feet higher than the surrounding flood plain the water table which
> is normally pretty high just comes up and floods everything.  Today
> they have allowed a few people in our county who had been under a
> mandatory evacuation to return to their homes and businesses.
> I think a trip up to Thunder Valley would be a blast.  Give us a heads
> up next year and we'll see if some of us can make it.
>
> Paul L.
> 63 Sport Fury
>
> On Aug 17, 2:55 pm, MO <mic...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> >  Hay Doug, Thanks for the pics and your post.  I hope it is rumor, but
> > I hear our local 1/8 mile strip at Pacific Junction has been under
> > toxic(sewage) water from the Mo. river flooding I am afraid the strip
> > will not re-open and I am really disappointed. Not only for Rich K but
> > for myself as I am building my 64 Dodge to race there.   I think it
> > would be GREAT for us guys to meet up at Thunder Valley.  I have seen
> > videos of Mikes launch( absolutly awesom) and e-mailed with him a
> > bit..  I was hoping to meet him at Monster Mopars in St Louis but that
> > is camcelled. Will you guys be at Cordoba? ...........MO
>
> > On Aug 16, 11:19 pm, Doug J <63sprtf...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Went to Thunder Valley Dragway in Marion South Dakota last Saturday
> > > for the Mopar race.  It's a yearly trip to see my friend and fellow
> > > 62-65 mail list member Mike Creglow and his '65 Plymouth Satellite.
> > > Great weather and some nice Mope's.  Mike had the 2nd fastest Mopar,
> > > only the red '65 Belvedere  Hemi was a couple tenths faster.  Wish I
> > > could have seen those two cars run together !!
> > > Next time, we need to get the Omaha area folks to come up.  (Not THAT
> > > far).   Only took a handful of pics, but you can see them here.
>
> > >http://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r100/big_jake57/Mopars%20at%20Thun...
>
> > > Mike's is the Green/White '65.  My 63 was at home with a sick
> > > radiator......... :-(
>
> > > --
> > > Doug,
> > > '63 Sport Fury 'vert- Hide quoted text -
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