BIG THANKS !!!!!!!!!!
We just got back from another show (5:15 this am!) & a friend passed on this thread to me. We were at the Fastest Street Car series at Bowling green KY. It's an 8 hr + cruise for us with stops & all, plus add an hour coming back for time change. It looked like a total rain deal on most of the fri-sat-sun schedule, but just like the nat's, it worked out super.
These guys are a REAL class act like the Buick community. Some have some issues (as all groups do), but the majority is a great bunch of people. We had Jim Pliss there with his '86 GN to represent the daily driven TR's, only one there! Imagine a (black
) Grand National sticking out at the races
He went a personal best of 11.56 without really stepping on it too hard, and it is still running! He had problems at a lot of other races, nice to have it in one piece after this one.
We had one guy come over & ask if we had a rod-end for his wheelie bars. We didn't, and he couldn't find one anywhere else, and he came back over & asked if we had a piece of aluminum or something to just make it solid. We looked thru our stuff & came up with the extra spacer plate to our TR trans mt's. Well, 6 of them seemed to do the fix for them. They were so appreciative, they told us to bring a couple stickers/decals over to their trailer to put on for helping. Turns out it was a Pro-Mod looking Viper setup with a blown hemi that looked like it was right out of a top-fuel dragster! Well, our parts are now on a car going 6.70's at over 200 mph!!!
Our decals are on the side of their rear wing, and they got an announcement thanking us for helping them make the eliminations. That's just "Buick" hospitality to us, and they returned the hospitality in the same great fashion. Unfortunately, they blew the burst panel on it from over-boost, but it was hauling some butt! Got a bunch of pics & video to get on our site. MANY top-quality cars that went really fast. Anyone looking for a "second" group to get involved with, I would highly recommend these guys. The event coordinators are top grade too. Seemed like they got a lot more cooperation from the track too. It totally poored for 20-30 minutes & about blew our tent & display away. Within an hour after it stopped, they were racing again! I would have never imagined another car would go down the track that day, but they dried it off, blew the water off the staging lanes, prepped the track & raced for many more hours. Looking forward to more events with these guys. Go to
www.fasteststreetcar.com for more details. Might make my '53 turbo v-8 fit their classes as well
Anyway, got off the subject but, THANKS again for all the great support! I am getting buried with orders on control arms & swaybars, and can't keep up! I am doing all I can to not become one of the "less" favorable vendors, keeping customer service & quality at the top. Got most of the motor mounts out from the Nat's, but still have a lot of other stuff to ship yet. Getting set back from a few different places, waiting on powdercoating, laser cutting, and some poly & bolts to get here. It figures, everything is in stock until I need to order it
Just want to let those that are waiting know that we are grateful for your patience & will get it all out ASAP. This all started as a side-line business while I raced, to help pay for the expenses & help other racers out. Now it is a full-blown operation that has almost overwhelmed me! I can see a big future if I can keep things going in the same direction. Can't wait until I can get a bunch more ideas/products out of my head, proto-typed, and into production. I love being part of the Buick community!
THANKS !!! THANKS !!! THANKS !!! THANKS !!! THANKS !!!
