Last weekend I traveled up to Maxton North Carolina to see the East Coast speed trials, and watch my Dad take his Bus down the track to see what it would do in "THE MAXTON MILE"
Basically the East Coast Timing Assoc. turned an old airstrip into a mini Bonneville.
The goal....run what ya brung, foot to the floor wide open to the mile mark and see what your speed is.
Dad has been preppin' the Bus for some time to see what she would do.
And being the true Hot Rodder that he is....he drove it 700 miles from Pennsylvania!
Here he is pullin' in the Track.
Day one was a wash out due to rain, this was the road to the starting line via the Bus.
Pops got a few neat things I haven't seen before in it. The Gasser shift knob and newly fabbed chute release arm.
ECTA Rules had him add a little more to the roll cage, and when they saw the door handle, tape an explaination on the door for the emergency crew on how the doors opened if they needed to get him out quick.
On his first run he was limited to 135 mph, so he peddeled it through the traps at 123, just checking everything out to see how it handled. After the run he was like a kid in a candy store all giddy and smiley!!!
On the next run he was going to the floor to see what she had, he said that "She was haulin' the mail" and it looked R E A L fast at the half mile mark.....then two puffs of white smoke belched out the pipes and it was game over
Two pistons were toasted. Due to the really cold weather he thinks that the jetting was off and leaned her out to much.
Now the Bus was really "blown"....how to get her home?
Luckily, He had a cousin follow him down and had a hitch on his van.
Some really cool racers from Canada offered to trailer it back to the hotel until he found a trailer so they could get it home.
****The pic he never wanted anyone to see
He still held his head up (except for the above photo, lol) and had a great time, people loved the Bus, what's not to love about some serious "Flower Power".
He'll be back next year :mrgreen:
There was talk of a Hyabusa last year doin 250+, I'll have to do some research on that, I don't doubt it though, I saw a few 200+ runs on bikes...Crazy!
Here are a few more pics of what was there and ran.
Basically the East Coast Timing Assoc. turned an old airstrip into a mini Bonneville.
The goal....run what ya brung, foot to the floor wide open to the mile mark and see what your speed is.
Dad has been preppin' the Bus for some time to see what she would do.
And being the true Hot Rodder that he is....he drove it 700 miles from Pennsylvania!
Here he is pullin' in the Track.
Day one was a wash out due to rain, this was the road to the starting line via the Bus.
Pops got a few neat things I haven't seen before in it. The Gasser shift knob and newly fabbed chute release arm.
ECTA Rules had him add a little more to the roll cage, and when they saw the door handle, tape an explaination on the door for the emergency crew on how the doors opened if they needed to get him out quick.
On his first run he was limited to 135 mph, so he peddeled it through the traps at 123, just checking everything out to see how it handled. After the run he was like a kid in a candy store all giddy and smiley!!!
On the next run he was going to the floor to see what she had, he said that "She was haulin' the mail" and it looked R E A L fast at the half mile mark.....then two puffs of white smoke belched out the pipes and it was game over
Two pistons were toasted. Due to the really cold weather he thinks that the jetting was off and leaned her out to much.
Now the Bus was really "blown"....how to get her home?
Luckily, He had a cousin follow him down and had a hitch on his van.
Some really cool racers from Canada offered to trailer it back to the hotel until he found a trailer so they could get it home.
****The pic he never wanted anyone to see
He still held his head up (except for the above photo, lol) and had a great time, people loved the Bus, what's not to love about some serious "Flower Power".
He'll be back next year :mrgreen:
There was talk of a Hyabusa last year doin 250+, I'll have to do some research on that, I don't doubt it though, I saw a few 200+ runs on bikes...Crazy!
Here are a few more pics of what was there and ran.
