Old Guys at Las Vegas Drags 2008

[3RRL]

There is a whole group of "the old gang" that I am still in touch with. These are guys I've known since I cam to America in 1957, so in my case, a lot of them from the 1st grade and ever since. We went to Junior High and also graduated together from High school...I've known these guys for 51 years now!!! Shees!!! There 9 of us total, but since we were in Vegas, it was hard to get everybody together at the same time. It wasn't long though that we were BS-ing about the "old times".
Then we went to the Drags the next day.



There was a lot to see and I was pretty excited.

[3RRL]

Since we are all old guys, we all used to belong to car clubs and motorcycle clubs. Even our girl friends. Loretta knew a lot of these guys too, since we met in the 7th grade Junior High. It was really great for all of us to see each other again. Only one guy flew in from another state, but surprisingly, all the rest still lived around the Southern California area.
Here are some action shots from the bleachers.





It was really great to see the top fuel dragsters and funny cars. The noise was incredible! I remember when top fuel ran in the high sevens around 180mph! They started running around 1:00pm. The Army top fuel rail had low ET of the day, (I think) but we left around 2:30.
We were exhausted!



Rob-

[linus69]

Nice pictures Rob, old friends like that are some of the things in life that truely are priceless.

Paul