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Ron Earp · 06-12-05, 09:12 PM

Well, yes, you are right. BUT - the distance!!!! We've got real drag racing every Thusday-Sun where I live - serious contenders for NHRA stuff only 45 minutes away, with honest 10.XX cars just driving around McDonalds in Rockingham on a weekend night - yep those are streetcars. No sh*&!

But, that other stuff, well, it is a long ways from me. Reno is 2000 miles away and in the same country, Salt flats about the same. Jet boats can be close at Oak Hollow, about 1 hour from me, (my grandfather used to build drag boat motors back in the day), but as you know the US is big.

Lots of tracks over here though and I am getting time on them when I can, in fact, hope to have a little time on yours here soon!!

Maybe one of these days we need to organize a "racer exchange trip" where we can each attend an event overseas with a group of GT40 nuts. The Watkins Glen thing would have been perfect this year so we might need to be on the lookout for such things in the future. I think it'd be a load of fun and we'd be putting the forum to good use, bringing people together.

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Ron Earp Ron Earp Site Administrator Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3,932 Rep Power: 57	Re: How long is your con rod? Well, yes, you are right. BUT - the distance!!!! We've got real drag racing every Thusday-Sun where I live - serious contenders for NHRA stuff only 45 minutes away, with honest 10.XX cars just driving around McDonalds in Rockingham on a weekend night - yep those are streetcars. No sh*&! But, that other stuff, well, it is a long ways from me. Reno is 2000 miles away and in the same country, Salt flats about the same. Jet boats can be close at Oak Hollow, about 1 hour from me, (my grandfather used to build drag boat motors back in the day), but as you know the US is big. Lots of tracks over here though and I am getting time on them when I can, in fact, hope to have a little time on yours here soon!! Maybe one of these days we need to organize a "racer exchange trip" where we can each attend an event overseas with a group of GT40 nuts. The Watkins Glen thing would have been perfect this year so we might need to be on the lookout for such things in the future. I think it'd be a load of fun and we'd be putting the forum to good use, bringing people together.