First Drag strip visit

B.I.R., aka Brainerd Int'l Raceway, but when I was first there it was called Donnybrook (sp?). I was about 6 or 7 at the time, which makes this around 1971 or so, and we got Pit Passes from a friend of my father's, as he was the Valvoline Rep back then. I still have a bunch of stuff from my childhood with Valvoline stickers slapped all over them....

Don't recall much else about that first visit, other than the Mud Hole that used to be in the infield of the road course.....

First track that I ever raced-on was Rock Falls, over in Wisconsin, and that was in '82 or so (I'm trying to remember when I built my SB Vega in H.S.). Car couldn't hook-up worth a damn, when the rear-end was in one piece, that is (Lincoln locker and street tires), and I only made three hits, none of them anywhere near the 13's!

Had to sell the Vega at the end of that summer, as I needed the cash for.....something or other. Probably something for my girlfriend at the time. (Stupid, stupid, stupid....)