Post by SKR on Oct 19, 2008 6:03:29 GMT -7
I’d like to tell you all about a special entry we have for the Fall Nationals. CPL Jay McIlroy (paposse)
is stationed in Iraq on his second tour of duty. His father Rich (keystoneracing) was able to send him a car and some parts for Jay to work on in his spare time. Jay is entry #19 in Rat Rod. With the amount of time it takes for shipping back and forth to Iraq Rich was unable to get the parts together for Jay in time to build anything else except for a Rat Rod. He had mentioned that Jay would like to run another class as well. Once we heard this the wheels started turning. We contacted some of the Psycho members to make the personalized gift of a funny car for Jay to run at the Fall Nationals. Jay is #18 in BB/FC. The car will be mailed to his father after the race for Jay to keep. Jay returns from his second tour of duty sometime in February.
Rich tells us that he found Psycho Slots while he had been doing searches on slot drag racing in general and he somehow came across a link in one of the forums for the 1/24 scale cars. He says once he checked out our site “that was that“. He forwarded the link to Jay in Iraq to check out on his down time. He says Jay also become hooked. They use to race Rich’s HO’s all the time when Jay was younger and says most of it was drag racing to find the fastest car.
Rich, his wife Melissa, Jay and their youngest Sean have been involved with hobby style drag racing for a number of years. They first became involved 15 or 16 years ago through RC's (IEDA,IMDRA,RC RODS). They recently moved to 1/25 slot drags when a track opened near them (Paradise Road in Pa). While Rich personally will not be entering the Rat Rod race he already has 1 car underway for the January MM/PS race. Jay does have one "National Event" win in RC's winning the Bracket division at IMDRA's Northwind Nationals in NJ in 2005 just weeks before going off to basic training.
Kdog, John Balich, Gary Mead, Allstarhr, Troy Mead and myself all came together to build this car for Jay. The fantastic paint was done by Kdog. The picture does not do the car justice. John Balich donated the chassis, made personalized decals for Jay to have his name on the car along with other decals. Gary Mead donated the Mopar decals. Allstarhr helped fund the project. Troy Mead donated a few decals. I get the pleasure of building/ tuning and finishing it off. Thank you to all the guys for coming together for this special project.
CPL Jay McIlroy, thank you for your service to our country. On behalf of all the members of psychoslots.com we present to you your new funny car.
is stationed in Iraq on his second tour of duty. His father Rich (keystoneracing) was able to send him a car and some parts for Jay to work on in his spare time. Jay is entry #19 in Rat Rod. With the amount of time it takes for shipping back and forth to Iraq Rich was unable to get the parts together for Jay in time to build anything else except for a Rat Rod. He had mentioned that Jay would like to run another class as well. Once we heard this the wheels started turning. We contacted some of the Psycho members to make the personalized gift of a funny car for Jay to run at the Fall Nationals. Jay is #18 in BB/FC. The car will be mailed to his father after the race for Jay to keep. Jay returns from his second tour of duty sometime in February.
Rich tells us that he found Psycho Slots while he had been doing searches on slot drag racing in general and he somehow came across a link in one of the forums for the 1/24 scale cars. He says once he checked out our site “that was that“. He forwarded the link to Jay in Iraq to check out on his down time. He says Jay also become hooked. They use to race Rich’s HO’s all the time when Jay was younger and says most of it was drag racing to find the fastest car.
Rich, his wife Melissa, Jay and their youngest Sean have been involved with hobby style drag racing for a number of years. They first became involved 15 or 16 years ago through RC's (IEDA,IMDRA,RC RODS). They recently moved to 1/25 slot drags when a track opened near them (Paradise Road in Pa). While Rich personally will not be entering the Rat Rod race he already has 1 car underway for the January MM/PS race. Jay does have one "National Event" win in RC's winning the Bracket division at IMDRA's Northwind Nationals in NJ in 2005 just weeks before going off to basic training.
Kdog, John Balich, Gary Mead, Allstarhr, Troy Mead and myself all came together to build this car for Jay. The fantastic paint was done by Kdog. The picture does not do the car justice. John Balich donated the chassis, made personalized decals for Jay to have his name on the car along with other decals. Gary Mead donated the Mopar decals. Allstarhr helped fund the project. Troy Mead donated a few decals. I get the pleasure of building/ tuning and finishing it off. Thank you to all the guys for coming together for this special project.
CPL Jay McIlroy, thank you for your service to our country. On behalf of all the members of psychoslots.com we present to you your new funny car.
very kool it would be nice if he wins .
