Sandfly Alley and Race Team, New Zealand

Well tonights the first night with out the usa cars, some secret testing was done and the car building dept had a loss and a win in prepping some old cars to go fast and slower.
Ron the train guy and pony boy who had other family commitments failed to attend the final shake down at sandfly testing at 1000 ft, i knew that those extra sensors would come in handy. So a bit of fettling saw the cars ready to ship. Kiwi Dave did the honors and took our steads back over the hill for wrapping and postage, its in the hands of the starter now, cant wait.
So till tomorrow from Impala raceway.

I thought they were tears from your competitors?

That's been one heck of a rain fall over there. Going to need higher ground if that keeps up.

So well yes, that was a nights racing at Mustang Alley. Full of danger, slow cars, even slower cars, missed fields and just the right amount of race fuel.

After giving the team the tools to do the job in top fuel i decided points were more important in nostalgia so did a bit of chassis swapping whilst the crew weren't watching, did this before i left home tho.




The calm office of the track promotor, perhaps he had started to sniff the race fuel too early. Qualifying went well with top tq in nostalgia, top fuel and inline, some of the cars only came to shop at the trade stalls looking for lost horse power, the fresh out of the box nostalgia army car limped its way past the car park got to the first concession stand and stayed there. The gtx funny car and Parts Plus top fueler must have found some skirt because they were well off the pace.


 

Alan Wills was having none of that, unlike his brother camp mother, or should we say the peg bandit.


On to the all important racing, there was quite a few very close races including a tie, cant remember who won that one. The crown in inline got beat by mats mopar and paid the price, being rear ended by the fast finishing sandfly car.



Ok Jungle Jim took the chicken dinner in nostalgia, The 52 Chev, chicken dinner in truck, The Cuda chicken dinner in inline, the ghost lost the final in pro- mod due to a red light and the Mac's Tools top fueler managed a 3rd following a red light in the second round.



Next week see's us back at home base, till then.

Well what a nights racing, 6 drivers made the effort to show up and race. With smaller class fields with our usa cars away there were a few classes very low on cars. This made for some intense racing.
The sandfly crew did and awesome job in qualifying with Jungle Jim, Cuda and Ghost all recording tq's.




Some random shots from the track. Who's got a good eye, whats the oldest item on the shelf, no prize for the winner.



Rocker cover racer, swap meet find.

On to the racing, ole pony boy broke the cherry with his first red light in a long while, whilst Matt was on a crusade to see how many Kiwi Largers he could drink.



Pro mod action, the altered's were at it again, The panty raid and Ron's red altered at the line.

Ok to the results
4th's went to the Panty Raid pro mod, Willies in gasser.
3rds went to 52 chev in truck and Parts Plus in top fuel.
2nds went to The Crown in inline and Mac's tools in top fuel.
Chicken dinners went to, Jungle Jim in nostalgia, Cuda in inline and the Ghost in Pro Mod.

Next week see's us back at camp mothers Moonshine park.

I was checking out the posters too. In regards to the question what is the oldest thing on the shelf, I'm going to say the top shelf left end yellow wooden train. Great pictures and cool stuff! 

Well yes the rain has stopped but now come the frosts and biting wind, cant wait for summer. So as you have guessed its race night at Moonshine Park. No idea who has done what so we shall see, the team sandfly cars have been holed up due to the cold weather, aint no good testing cars in the cold, till tomorrow.