PICS from AA/FA classic & Div.7 event Bakersfield, CA (1 Viewer)

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Oh hai.
I took some pics at the yearly Holder's heating and air conditioning / Chuy's mesquite broiler fuel altered classic this past weekend. This year it was with the Div. 7 event, so the pics are mixed.

Let's go!

*edit: It has been pointed out that, I am in fact, not a weather forecaster or meteorologist.

2 hours later....
Bakersfield, CA

So I always stop at the sponsor (Chuy's) and get some grub. A motorcycle club was there having a birthday party or sonthin' and a live band was playing. (they were rockin' good!)

 

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AC/DC's "You shook me all night long"

My order was ready, so I got it and went on over to Famoso raceway...

 

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...which is in the middle of orchards.

nitrograpes

and nitroalmonds

NAPA alky F/C support truck (car and golf cart have the same paint job as Ron's)

 

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It was free entry after 3pm, so let's go on in....

this year's shirt

 

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those crazy altereds and their bodies

 

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Chris Demke heading to the staging lanes

...and crew

the pic was kinda funny to me because he was in serious mode, and I crouched in front of the dragster to take the pic. I didn't see him put the smile on because I was looking thru the viewfinder. Later, when I got these pics on here, I noticed he had turned the charm on for the camera. What a ham.

 

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holy gigantic scoop batman....

Mark Niver's car

incredible machining by an incredible machinist/craftsman

 

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suiting up

 

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Douglas Gordon.... drives the Morro Bay cabinets alky F/C

NAPA car! Looks friggin' great

 

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Chris Demke

Peen Rite dragster... note the bellhousing.

They clown around

National Anthem being sung

 

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Sun was brutal

I had a nice shot with the smoke inside the rim, but I failed to notice the fotog sitting there. I suck.

warming up the nitro altereds

 

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Nitro!!!! Hell yeah

 

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Bulldog giving his opinion of JFR (LMAO)

 

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Will you hurry up and start the motor already?

OK, here we go! Fire in the hole!

Shut it down! Shut it down! I can't breef!

 

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Crowd gathers to watch Nanook warm up

...followed by Rat trap
Ron Hope

wicked!

raw nitro pumping out of an even# cylinder

 

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It was something simple and they fixed it right away. It cleaned up on the next re-fire.