Well Norm lets recap: I owned you in Bowling Green, Then you called me out in Topeka.... I drove 3300 miles with my truck and trailer and car. I took a week off from work to run you ....You showed up, BUT did not bring your car, you did bring Scott but NO car.
I called you out prior to Columbus but I was going to do the same thing to you....NOT show up.
I had planned to go on a business trip in Australia for 3 months prior to the race. I cut 10 DAYS off a business trip (collecting plants in Australia with professors from the University of Florida, Research personal from the state of Florida and the curator of the most famous Botanical gardens in Florida Fairchild Gardens). I decided at last minute, 58 hours before the race to come. It cost me thousands of dollars to change my plans. BUT I wanted to race my friend Norm and Scott.
My wife sent one my employees and his 5 year old son ( he would not have gotten back in time to pick up his son from daycare so he took him with him) to Miami to pick up my truck from a nursery there. He got back with his son at mid nite and met my wife there to hook up my trailer. Then drove my truck and trailer to my house getting there at 2:00 am.
The next morning Vern Hill drove over and he and my 14 year old son loaded my Viper into the trailer. He and my wife drove 2 1/2 hours in heavy rain to Orlando where she (my 2 boys were at home with their Uncle) rented a car and drove 2 1/2 hours back home. My wife, Theresa was very uncomfortable driving my F350 dolley with a 24 ft trailer in the rain thru major road construction on I 4 in Dinsey world and 2 major city's traffic....Tampa and Orlando.
Larry Macedo drove my truck and trailer to Ohio, just so I could race YOU !
Meanwhile I was in Cairnes Austriala, I cut my business trip in 1/2 ....losing much money on prepaid hotels and 3 guides for plant collecting in the outback and the cost of changing air flight in less than 3 days.
I left the hotel at 4:45 am and got to the airport 2 hours in advance and flew to Brisbane Australia to sit for 3 1/2 hours due to security and it being a international flight. I flew 16 hours to LA and went thru custom for my plants and seeds that I brought back.Then I sat in L.A. for 4 hours and then flew to Chicago.Where I sat there for 2 more hours before I flew to Columbus. There a friend Lawerance from the Florida posse picked me up from the airport and took me to the trackat aprox. 8:00pm were I started raceing in the street tire shoot out.
I got 45 minutes of sleep on the planes (I can not sleep on a plane) I also had to keep my self a wake at the airport because I felt if I fell a sleep in the airport I might miss my flight.
GUESS WHAT AFTER ALL OF THIS YOU DID NOT SHOW UP./images/graemlins/shocked You need to get Linginfelter to finish your new modifications and show up!
BY THE WAY SINCE LARRY MACEDO BUILT MY MOTOR IN FEB. 2003 MY MOTOR HAS NEVER BEEN APART OR MODIFIED, ONLY OIL CHANGES HAVE BEEN DONE TO THE MOTOR, I added 1 lb of boost(changed pulley in early Dec) and added a 50 HP shoot of Nitrous(I have NO intercooler) for the Bradenton V-10 Nationals in 2003.
YES Congrats to SW he drove one hell of a race..... .004 ( that record will not be broke anytime soon)and a 1.47 60 ft is what put me on the trailer. At the 1/8 SW was at doing a 101.6 to my 105.6 and the end I had driven a 10.382 and SW had drove a 10.485. That race SW would have anyone in that class on that trailer.
BUT THE IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER IS .......... CUDAMAN IS STILL THE OWNER/DADDY OF "TX WHOS YOUR DADDY".
Cudaman:flag:
P.S. Thankyou Theresa and Vern Hill and Larry Macedo for making it possible for me to race Columbus..... Third place winner of Super Pro Street(with the fastest ET)
