Eastern Hot Rodder Goes To The Slot Car Drags

I got invited to go to the Raceway Slot Car Drags in Cleveland, TN by my buddy John Bonnet. He let me run his Vette and Fox body Mustang while Ray Cote Jr. let me run his dually pickup, AKA: Hooptie. Once I got a hang of the lights I did pretty good. Nabbed low reaction time (.0007) in round 1. I burned the motor in the Vette, then crashed the Mustang. The Hooptie proved consistent and reliable. There were a bunch of really cool cars there and the most feared was a little girl, about 7. She was killer on the tree. She made it to the semi-finals before getting knocked out. In the end DJ won with his dragster and Ray Jr. runner-upped with his 1957 Chevy Cameo pickup. The variation of cars running and detail put into each one made the event as entertaining as any car show. There were cop cars, ramp trucks, corvettes, Mustangs, Chargers, hot rods, dragsters, pickups and Camaros running the scale quarter mile from anywhere from 2 seconds to as low as 0.8 seconds at near 50mph. We had a ton of fun for a little amount of money. I can see how this can get to be an addicting hobby.