Dockboy
Comps BFF
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- Apr 26, 2006
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I think I can take credit .... or blame .... for getting Merv hooked after we met one night during Midnight Madness at MIR.
Does he sill have the same truck?
I really liked the sport back then, it was so much fun, it was just different back then, maybe because nobody knew what to expect, including us ... I can remember the first nitrous run I made, we installed the smallest 2 jets we could find, Andy Sebek and Jeff Magyer (?) sat in the stands (still have the video actually) fully expecting the truck to just blow right up on the starting line, but instead we ran something like a 12.70 @ 113 or somewhere around there, which was pretty darned quick back then.
Hey Ted! How ya been?:Cheer:
I remember when Doug (Jetpilot) and I were the ONLY ones spraying nitrous at our events. Everyone would do nothing but give us crap and there was always an astrik on the board by our names!! We were like their entertainment! LOL Now days the astrik is for fuel only!! :hehe:
I agree with you though, the sport was really fun back in those days but it has definitly changed for the worse for me recently . I've had lots of discussions with people about the "change" in the sport. I think alot of it has to do with age personally. Back then, most of us were of a little more mature age, mostly because we were the only ones that could afford the trucks!! And if you wanted to "push the limits" it wasn't like today where you just go buy some parts and walla. We had to experiment, blow $hit up, experiment some more, etc. That is what made it fun for me.
Now days, an 18 year old kid can buy a 10 year old truck for $5,000, throw another grand in parts at it and then think they have a smoke blowing race car to run around the streets in. They act like they have 1000 hp like their internet and magazine heros and have to prove it at every stop light or empty parking lot:what::bang Frustrates the hell out of me