Hope  this season is good for all,  I thank everyone for looking around here, and here`s whats happening for the Willys, theyre hibernating, oh, the one on the ground is the original car soon to be torn appart to restore it to its glory days build. I know its so nice but its gotta be done.  I will have a real nice driving chassis and a steel custom willys floor to match for sale.  And as a christmas bonus for you all, theres  two pages of pics and short stories of the cars. Maybe something you didnt know.

Nice Job Rick.....

I wanted to show all of you who check out my blog and thankyou for doing so, as  I try to keep the site as updated as possible, but when the racing season goes cold, I have to become creative in another way to burn up some of the energy. Surfing on the web I came across Krazy Ricks Chilly Willy Gasser.  I opened up the site and low and behold was  a gallery of pictures from all sides  of the car with the 1967  green and yellow combo  war paint. I had to look at it closer, something seemed funny  and I realized it was a model.   Holy smokes!!!!! Is this ever neat.You never know whats out there until you look. He stated in his posting that we met at one of the local tracks and that he sifted thru my collection of pictures that I display and loved the paint scheme so much that he recreated a model of it. Well some of you may not know, this is the way the car looked   before the  blue paint job that we currently run.  Rick has done an amazing  job of  just that. This was Berts first year with the Willys and it had a junk yard engine for power. The purchase price of the car was $1200.00 and his wife ended up buying it  for his birthday. What a lovely gal.  Burt said he found the original sales slip the other day when he was looking through some stuff.  Anyway, the car never went  as fast as he would have liked it to, but Straus was able to keep the car very consistant and new he could win some races. Wasnt till the next year that he bought another engine which had much more power  from a well know altered called “Percy Also”  who changed his engine to a Hemi.  Heres the link to Ricks forum posting. Check it out and also another new page  I have added in the pages section to show off your hard works called “Model Builders Corner”      ………Dyno   http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t13813.html

On the last leg of our journey to arrive at Milan Dragway, we turned off US 23 onto Plank Rd. which was just wide enough for two cars to pass. The area was surrounded by ripe corn fields soon to be harvested and patches of tall trees with the tinge of fall colours  ready to take over. Upon arrival we came around a bend and there was Milan Dragway. WOW. As we waited for the gates to open on Friday afternoon, I tried to imagine what it was like here to see the hot rods back in the day ripping around the track, the  stands filled with fans  watching their favorites trying to set new records, all in all the weekends were a drag for many. Minutes later, 4 oclock struck and the gates opened up, and one by one they came,  hot rods, gassers, funny cars, rear engine dragsters, rat rods and  swap meet vendors all filling up the grounds. Sat morning, we woke up to a cloudy day with chance of showers which did happen, and shut down the racing later in the day for 1 hour, but then in the middle of the afternoon when it blew over, the temp shot up and it was all out war, car to car.  Every racer  made  3  passes in time trials  and set their time for eliminations. It all went down quickly and was  soon over with a couple of local guys winning the purse. I of course got knocked out first round by spinning the tires thru the gears and not hooking up.  Ive always got a good excuse… Anyway, the car did very well running all passes in the 9.70`s ET and averaging  138 mph. The track was tight and the strip was very smooth with no bumps or dips. Grounds were well groomed and  Id say a 10 out of 10 for the whole event, despite the light rain. Everyone we talked to or watched walking by had a nice look on their face. I dont think Ive ever seen so many good folks. It was a real pleasure to be in your neck of the woods. We look forward to coming here again.  We would like to thank the  track owner  Bill Capolka for arranging the show, the staff in doing a job well done,  the fans and racers  for coming out, and oh,  speaking of all the pretty faces, here are  some for you to enjoy…….  Special hello to Little Hot Rod and his Dad, I love the nickname……Dyno

Go Back In The Day

The famous and beautiful Milan dragway outside of Detroit Mighigan will be hosting the first ever nostalgia show and shine event on Sept 26. This one day event arleady has a large booking and should be quite the show. We are counting down the days till we get there. The Can/Am Gassers will be in full swing with a larger than nornal American gasser turn out. Deric Knowe on the Candian side who runs the “Hyper Henry” said to me earlier “We gonna have to work real hard to take them out. Theyre good racers you know.” Ya I know Deric, they beat us last event. So stay tuned and see what happens. Have you seen the latest video on the Chilly Willys in Lancaster New York? Its on YouTube courtesy of Frank Kunkel and it was a wonderful ride.  By the way its on my video page too. Enjoy  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4EFEGHbUM   Dyno

Imagine seeing this on the street

Last weekend we hit the Bend for one day of racing. The stars of the OSCA realy let it all hang out. Nice weather, dedicated and efficient staff members, awsome strip, clean grounds and fast cars  made it another event to plan for next year. Special thanks to Mike Bennet and Rob Barnes of the OSCA for the invitation and treating us   ”Candian Gassers” very nicely despite theyre buisy day. Many thanks.   We ran the car twice in the 1/4  mile and went 9.86/ 128 mph first pass,  (9.68/ 139 mph second pass  setting another personal record.)  P.S. dont tell the competition……Dyno