'Twas The Night Before Christmas

[Dragsinger]

Good job, two thumbs up.

[Irace007]

I'm pressin the "like "button on this one

[Gary Merrick]

Merry Christmas to All!!!

Great Story Mike, I hope you and your folks have a Wonderful Christmas and wishing you a very Happy New Year...

Your story of ole Saint Nick reminded me of a ride I gave to my Dad (he was in his early 50's) back in the early 70's in my first race car, which was a 69 Yenko Camaro - SS/D (it had run 11.0's prior to this). I had just changed the clutch and Pop helped me get the trans back in. After I buttoned everything up, I asked him if he wanted to go for a short test drive around the neighborhood, to make sure the clutch worked OK. Slicks, open headers, needless to say I had other plans than just a short ride around our street. To make a long story short, I was heading towards a 4 lane highway (at a very reasonable speed) and he told me to turn it around and get it home before I got a ticket for the open headers. So, I pulled in a driveway, turned around, he yelled at me (hard to hear with open headers) to get going cause traffic was coming. That was all he had to say, so I put it in first, revved it up to 6000, dropped the clutch and started yanking gears, got it into 4th and shortly thereafter had to start slowing to make some turns to get back to our neighborhood. As I pulled in the driveway, shut it off and looked over, I will never forget that look on his face, his hands were shaking and he had this huge smile that was "priceless". I will never ever forget that moment. OBTW, the clutch worked great.
God Bless you, Dad.....

[MAURICE BLENDHEIM]

Good one.

[Superfan1]

Great story, and Merry Christmas to all.

[Greg Reimer 7376]

This didn't have anything to do with Christmas, but back in the mid '70's,I had a red '62 Impala SS 2 dr. hardtop, 4.56 gears, wide ratio Muncie 4 speed, 11 inch Mc Cloud clutch, and a 409 with a couple of 4 barrels. This car was in the high 12's, and it was a giggle toy to drive around in. One Saturday, my step dad was out in the rear yard and he made some comment about the car, so I invited him for an obligatory ride. We went about a half mile down the street,I turned around and got straightened up, asked him if he was ready,six granded the '09 and dropped the clutch. Six grand twice more, and we were coming up on their driveway rather fast,so I nailed the brakes and swerved into the driveway,went through the side gate and around back of the house and shut it off.We both got out, I shut the gate, let their German shepherd out of the dog run, and he went in. A few moments later, my mother came out and asked me if I was trying to give him another heart attack. It obviously scared him pretty well. He got rather old and forgetful over the next twenty years, but he never seemed to forget that one.