4 Days in May

[SSGN]

Originally Posted by Kevin Panzino

What is this 4 days in May? Google returns a wwII movie ???

It is a DVD of the quest and the final record set of the first 9 second stocker. It was a great time for conventional stockers.

[4406mopar]

Which car set the first 9 second record? Blue camaro?

[Larry Hill]

MR. Bobby D

[4406mopar]

Thought so, I remember the red 63 Max was coming to mission to play in those days. Who were all the players that came to Mission to try and get to the 9's first?

[SSGN]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

MR. Bobby D

I had the pleasure of meeting him in Pamona and have the T shirt to prove it lol. What a great time for class racing.

[Tim H]

Bobby D, Robert Pond, and Bartons IIRC

[Lenny5160]

Joe Aluise, Jr and Don Little were both quicker than DeArmond in qualifying.

[DemonChick]

A friend sent me this link that Larry posted on his Facebook back in May. You do not need to be on FB to watch it. It's 21 minutes long, of DeArmond's quest for the first 9 second ASA run.This is in part, of the "4 Days in May" video.
I remember this all to well, it was one heck of an exciting weekend for all the racers and fans!

https://www.facebook.com/larry.pfist...0972313619633/

[Tom P]

That was a heck of an exciting weekend. Larry did a great job telling the story. I saw him on Saturday and he has several photo books he is doing.

Joe Aluise had run 10.01 in the years previous at Mission (Long tow from Maryland) but now all the major players are at one place together. There were several 10.0 runs at Mission that weekend but come Sunday eliminations nobody had run a 9.

They started early Sunday, hardly anyone at the track yet and in the staging lanes several cars had 9.99 dial ins for first round. As I recall Pond, Aluise, Little and DeArmond all did. Several came close but Bobby D ran a 9.99. It was not an official record but Bobby did the teardown and it was legal.

Then the same weekend there were a bunch of the Hemi Superstockers all running fastest ever passes. That attracted cars from the east coast too.

Miss those good old days. Anyways, here is contact info...
https://www.facebook.com/larry.pfister.9

[Julie Jordan]

Originally Posted by Tom P

That was a heck of an exciting weekend. Larry did a great job telling the story. I saw him on Saturday and he has several photo books he is doing.

Joe Aluise had run 10.01 in the years previous at Mission (Long tow from Maryland) but now all the major players are at one place together. There were several 10.0 runs at Mission that weekend but come Sunday eliminations nobody had run a 9.

They started early Sunday, hardly anyone at the track yet and in the staging lanes several cars had 9.99 dial ins for first round. As I recall Pond, Aluise, Little and DeArmond all did. Several came close but Bobby D ran a 9.99. It was not an official record but Bobby did the teardown and it was legal.

Then the same weekend there were a bunch of the Hemi Superstockers all running fastest ever passes. That attracted cars from the east coast too.

Miss those good old days. Anyways, here is contact info...
https://www.facebook.com/larry.pfister.9

I was one of the fortunate ones to have been at that race. The electricity of excitement had to be experienced, it just can't be explained. We woke up to great weather and knew it was going to be a historic weekend. To watch Stockers put 9.99 on their windows for a dial-in was very surreal, for the time. When Bobby lit up the scoreboard the place went crazy. I will never forget that weekend.

It was a good weekend for my hemi team, too. :-)