Live from Atco, NJ ... National Open

[Ken Miele]

Anne, I will be sure to get some pictures of the Anthony's Mustangs. Just a few shots to start off this weekends racing. The green Corvette is absolutely beautiful.

Jacques Blais in his GT/EA 98 Mustang will be going for the record along with Gary Parker's H/SA Camaro today. I will post the numbers when I get them.

Joe DeMarzo in his G/SA Nove went a 11.08 at 118
Jim Conte in his C/SA Mustang went 10.46 at 126
Gary Parker in is H/SA Camaro went 11.15 at 117. He stumbled of the line, he thinks it would have been a 11.10, still not good enough for the record that is at 11.00 now.

The weather is not so good for records, latest weather.

Temp 84
humd 39%
bar 29.56
da 2753ft
Cross tail wind 5mph

[stefan callender]

Who is the owner of the green vette???

[B Aceves]

Ken,
You mentioned in your earlier post that it was a Test N Tune and Records today ?
If that's not a error I would like to know how you can set Records at a test n tune
day ? Am I missing something here?

Bob Aceves
#746 E/SA
A&M motorsports

PS, Great pics BTW, Those Corvette's are beautiful

[Stevie Ficacci]

The green corvette is Wally Zalak

[stefan callender]

He told me he was gonna build a vette.

[AC]

you have to check out that vette. Wally did all of the work himself besides the paint. It is an amazing car. Cant wait to see what it runs.

good luck to all

[Jack Matyas]

[QUOTE=B Aceves;180813]Ken,
You mentioned in your earlier post that it was a Test N Tune and Records today ?
If that's not a error I would like to know how you can set Records at a test n tune
day ? Am I missing something here?

Bob Aceves
#746 E/SA
A&M motorsports

Bob -- It's in the East Coast rule book .................you didn't miss a thing ! ! !

[Dave Ficacci]

Originally Posted by B Aceves

Ken,
You mentioned in your earlier post that it was a Test N Tune and Records today ?
If that's not a error I would like to know how you can set Records at a test n tune
day ? Am I missing something here?

Bob Aceves
#746 E/SA
A&M motorsports

PS, Great pics BTW, Those Corvette's are beautiful

NHRA is there for tech, fuel, scales, etc..

[Ken Miele]

We are done for the day, the test tune went well. You could get as many runs as you needed. You pretty much went to the lanes and they pulled you right out. We only had to wait once for about 30 min when a top sportsman car could not slow down and went into the sand trap. The car was a little banged up, but the driver is okay, I don't know his name. It was a yellow cavalier.

It was a weird day weather wise. The air was mostly hovering around 3000 ft. Not much barometer, 29.45 on my last run. The humidity was only 32% and the temp was 87 to 89 most of the day. The wind was a cross tail about 5 to 10 mph and I am sure it helped with the et and mph. My last run the wind hit me pretty hard about the 1100 ft mark, it pushed the car to right more then I would have liked. I would say it was a fast 3000ft. Numbers were not good, but the wind helped.

No records were set as far as I know. Jim Boudreau in B/SA went a 10.29 at 129. The CJ's and Wally's Corvette did not run so well, I guess they are just trying to sort things out. Jim Conte went a 10.45 at 127 in C/SA and Frank Bialas in his Road Runner ran 10.56, not sure of the mph. I think he was in B/SA. I ran pretty well, did some tuning, 9.85 at 135.

I received a special request from Evan Smith for a picture of the boys from New Jersey. I know he misses everyone up here and the same goes for us. John Bender wanted to say hello to his Family visiting Evan down in Tampa, FL. I also get a nice shot of John's car.

The weather is supposed turn much cooler for tomorrow. I will try to get a qualifying sheet for stk and ss.

That's it for today, I will be back in the morning with a weather report before the first time shot.

Side note: Sorry for the not so good pictures, I think I need a new camera. I'm going to give my cell phone camera a try for tomorrow.

[Tom Goldman]

Man that green on Wally's Vette is Bitchin!.........Steve Bell and Dave Milkerek will have a field day with that color. ....................If there are any great runs this weekend , no one can say it's the Atco "mineshaft air' ! ....Wish I was there with you guys,but I've gotten backed up with too many customers race cars , and some guys get crankey when you leave their cars unfinished to go race your own stuff!..........Good luck to all. ...........Tom