4 Days in May

[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. :-)

[Tom P]

Originally Posted by Julie Jordan

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. :-)

Certainly was. Having Bucky and the Bartons come west to race your team was a real treat for us locals.

I think Don Little was the most surprising Stock performer, not many people would have chosen him to run a nine first and he almost did. Robert Pond spun the tires just enough to kill the chance for a nine.