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Larry

Larry

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Looks like Richard Rawlins of Discovery Channels Fast And Loud Is Living up to the billing and getting Faster And Louder ! LOL
Could be out as soon as September at the Nationals at Ennis but certainly in Oct .
I've been watching Driver Kebin Kingsly for years as a Drag Boat Driver Alcohol Funny car driver and Lately tearing up the old Pro's in the Outlaw Fuel Altered Cars .
Whatever Kebin steps in goes fast that's what he does . I have watched him thrash on his Funny Car and he is not just a seat guy he has gear oil and NITRO in his veins .
I MO this could be a potent combination I just wonder who the tuner is going to be . There are a couple guys from around D/FW that are not strangers to Top Fuel . Maybe B A or W D .
Man all I can say is Texas is back in the hunt !!!!

http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2014/1320-xvi_8-10.html
 
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John Smith and Rhonda Hartman will be doing the tuning
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Rhonda? Last I heard she was a real estate agent in South Carolina, not really involved in the sport anymore. Bodie still does quite a bit of tuning though.

(not that I don't think she could do it if she set her mind to it, I just thought she had moved on)

PS This is probably a 1 or 2 race deal with a TV show tie-in. Not a bad thing as far as exposure goes, but let's not think there is a new fully funded team hitting the tour. Rawlings can barely afford his restaurant, there is no way he can afford to run a Top Fueler for very long.
 
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"Fast and Loud" is in my top 5 favorite automotive t.v. shows. I watch the latest show and am totally sick of the re-runs...
 
Oh boy. Anyone watch the last chopper build off on tv a couple of years back? It was before anyone had heard of Gas Monkey. it was them vs. Jesse James vs. Paul Jr. Well Jesse was being a royal d**k about things-blowing of the deadlines and such. Well Richard mouthed off about Jesse getting 2 weeks extra to build his bike (bikes were supposed to be done 2 weeks prior the live tv vote announcement.) Jesse got right in Richards face-looked ready to pop him. Richard put his tail between his legs BIGTIME. "No--iittts ooookkk. Youou do what you neeed."
Wonder if any of this will show up in the staging lanes. :rolleyes:
 
Darn I completely forgot about Steve and Billy Torrance out of Kilgore Tx . They are very nice folks and definitely players for keeps .
I remember back in the sixties and seventies Texas had a lot of Fuel Teams .
I'm all for more teams and folks willing to get evolved in the sport .
I think they will have a lot of fun . I'm going to get some lunch in the diner next trip to Dallas .
 
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Rhonda? Last I heard she was a real estate agent in South Carolina, not really involved in the sport anymore. Bodie still does quite a bit of tuning though.

(not that I don't think she could do it if she set her mind to it, I just thought she had moved on)
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FYI it is not the only car they will be involved with they were just in CA a few weeks ago lining out another TFD
 
Rules are rules and they should not be stretched to accommodate anyone . Rawlings Restaurant did so well they immediately outgrew it and are opening a 38,000 Sq. ft music venue across the street with a huge parking lot . Among festivities will be classic and muscle care cruses and of course car shows .
D/ FW is and always has been crazy about cars of all kinds .
I doubt he is going broke and I see opportunities galore to find sponsorship to do all kinds of things .
I wonder how much Sue would charge me to do the interior of my 55 Chevy . I need it cheap and yesterday !
 
I haven't heard anything about a Tuner but Kebin the driver is one of the best around . Might be like the Wilkerson and Zippie driver tuner deal .
Why not I say it's all good .
 
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Oh boy. Anyone watch the last chopper build off on tv a couple of years back? It was before anyone had heard of Gas Monkey. it was them vs. Jesse James vs. Paul Jr. Well Jesse was being a royal d**k about things-blowing of the deadlines and such. Well Richard mouthed off about Jesse getting 2 weeks extra to build his bike (bikes were supposed to be done 2 weeks prior the live tv vote announcement.) Jesse got right in Richards face-looked ready to pop him. Richard put his tail between his legs BIGTIME. "No--iittts ooookkk. Youou do what you neeed."
Wonder if any of this will show up in the staging lanes. :rolleyes:
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Don't know Richard, but Ive seen a side of JJ that you never saw on his shows. What a classless Prick, how this guy was able to build a successful business is beyond me!
 
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Don't know Richard, but Ive seen a side of JJ that you never saw on his shows. What a classless Prick, how this guy was able to build a successful business is beyond me!
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Maybe so, but have you ever seen any of the motorcycles that they did at West Coast Choppers? Flawless. He was the Boyd Coddington of the bike builders.
 
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