Awesome video...Jenkins/Landy match race '75

Geerhead55 · 12-10-2012, 01:20 AM

The Monza did come out mid '75 for Jenkins Competition,, I'm thinking it made its national event debut at Indy, that year. I saw it for the first time at the '75 Fallnationals here in Seattle, the first year for an NHRA national event in this area, that September.
Jenkins was here a year earlier with the Vega for a match race here at Seattle International Raceway, and Landy was here also, with the car shown in the video. The Vega, with the weight out ran a 8.55 that night, which was incredible at the time.
The final round that night found Bill in the Vega taking on local hitter "Jungle Gene" McKinney in his ancient '69 Camaro( Wynn's sponsered, if anyone recalls) with a big block of undisclosed displacement. After doing the rosin sweeping, the super long burnouts, and multiple dry hops, the cars staged, reved 'to the moon, and launched into the darkness. This was before the scoreboards were installed, and the packed house was so quiet you could've heard "that pin drop". When the win light came on in Jungle's lane, you could'nt believe the noise and pandemonium that insued!
If you were there that night, you'll never forget it,,, I know I never will.
Needless to say, there was alot of partying going on in the black Wynn's Camaro pits that night back in '74.
Danny Durham

12-10-2012, 01:20 AM	#18
Geerhead55 VIP Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Tacoma, Washington Posts: 1,632 Likes: 0 Liked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Awesome video...Jenkins/Landy match race '75 The Monza did come out mid '75 for Jenkins Competition,, I'm thinking it made its national event debut at Indy, that year. I saw it for the first time at the '75 Fallnationals here in Seattle, the first year for an NHRA national event in this area, that September. Jenkins was here a year earlier with the Vega for a match race here at Seattle International Raceway, and Landy was here also, with the car shown in the video. The Vega, with the weight out ran a 8.55 that night, which was incredible at the time. The final round that night found Bill in the Vega taking on local hitter "Jungle Gene" McKinney in his ancient '69 Camaro( Wynn's sponsered, if anyone recalls) with a big block of undisclosed displacement. After doing the rosin sweeping, the super long burnouts, and multiple dry hops, the cars staged, reved 'to the moon, and launched into the darkness. This was before the scoreboards were installed, and the packed house was so quiet you could've heard "that pin drop". When the win light came on in Jungle's lane, you could'nt believe the noise and pandemonium that insued! If you were there that night, you'll never forget it,,, I know I never will. Needless to say, there was alot of partying going on in the black Wynn's Camaro pits that night back in '74. Danny Durham