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Here ya go Keith, your words. I guess that you should get credit for this thread!
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Thanks, I think this will be a good start to a new thread. It may also help to show what you did to select your “beginner class”
I started at 16 at my local track after watching a funny car show the weekend before. my father and I took my 19 second Mustang II down the quarter-mile for the first time in the trophy class. First NHRA class was super Street several years later
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My dad. I was brought up around racing. Spent almost every Sunday of my childhood in the 70's and 80's at NY National Speedway and West Hampton Dragway on Long Island. I learned to race in his bracket Camaro, and it grew from there.
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My dad he was a tech guy at National Speedway and west Hampton Dragway when not racing
My firsts win was in a 1964 2 dr Malibu SW 6cylinder dial in of 2020seconds Dad slammed the brakes every time as I watch through the back window I was a passenger my dad was driving and we won street eliminations I was like 10 years old Hooked ever since
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I left home when I turned eighteen. I purchased an old beat up 1969 GTO soon after that. I got in a bunch of trouble with that car....
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My older brother Joe took me to Dover Drag Strip (Wingdale NY) in 1966 and that gave me the bug. My first race in my Nova was in 1972. Here I am 71 and still doing it and loving it..
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My dad raced and he took me with him the first time in 1966 to Atco Dragway and the rest is history.
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Started in '91. A guy that worked for me from long Island talked me into to going to Island Dragway to see what my Chevelle could run and I was hooked ever since. Raced with and against James Perrone at Island starting back in the late 90s.
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My older brother took me to the Super Stock Nationals at NY National Speedway when I was 15. I thought it was awesome and loved it. Made my first 1/4 mile pass at Island dragway when I was 17 in my 66 small block Chevelle. The rest as they say is history. LOL!
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