Welcome To Bits And Pieces Classic Funny Car Home Page

Welcome To Bits And Pieces Classic Funny Car Home Page

2007 has started off as a great season for us! With the addition of 2 great crewmembers, Al Napier and Paul Conlon, we've been able to get out and test early and be involved with many shows so far this year. After a test and tune session, which saw us encounter severe tire shake, we made some chassis adjustments and had the car running consistent 7.30 passes.

In May, we were invited, along with 2 other nostalgia funny cars, The Total Insanity gang and Mark Giovanazzo's Nightmare Arrow, to participate in the "Pinks All Out" event at Maple Grove Dragway. We had a ball, and performed very well in front of over 15,000 fans.

In June, we ran against Derek Lobban's beautifully prepared "Boggs Bros." '69 AMX funny car at Lebanon Vallyey Dragway's Spring Nostalgia Drags. Somebody forgot to tell mother nature that it's April showers, not June showers. we only were able to get one pass in, but still had fun!

We also ran, for the 1st time, at Beaver Springs Dragway, with 3 other funny cars, The Rubber City Gang, Derek, and Lance Goode with his Sharky's Machine. We had a blast and ran our personal best, 7.12 @ 196. We will be heading back to Beaver Springs in mid July for their York Nostalgia Event. And then on to Raceway Park, in Englishtown, NJ, for FCR 6. Stay tuned!

The below photo is of our first round match up with Chris Masarella's Total Insanity Monza. We beat Chris in a great race, 7.25 to 7.45.

5/12/07 Below photo shows the 3 of us that participated in the Maple Grove "Pinks All Out". From L to R, Bits & Pieces, Total Insanity, and Nightmare.

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6/16/07 Our next outing was the summer 200mph Thunder event at Beaver Springs Dragway. Below photo is us staging against Derek Lobban's "Boggs Bros." '69 AMX.

This was our best pass to date, 7.12@196

The four of us parked in the pits at "The Beaver"

7/15/07 Beaver Springs Dragway
York US30 Nostalgia Nationals
We had a great time at the Beaver for the second time this year. Six funny cars made it out, Bits&Pieces, Boggs. Bros., Tweety's Rat, Rollin' Stoned, Rubber City Connection and Sweetman Bros. We bested Drew Sweetman in round 1 with a 7.25 pass. And in round 2 beet Bob Rosetty with a holeshot 7.30 to his slowing 7.28

July 28th & 29th
FCR VI
Englishtown, NJ

Rained out!!!!!!! (or actually monsooned out!)

On to LVD (Lebanon Valley Dragway, our home track), for their Night of Fire this coming Friday, August 3rd.
Stay Tuned!

Keith

Friday August 3rd

Lebanon Valley Dragway's Night Of Fire

We had a great time, dodged the rain all around us. It was VERY humid and we clicked of a 7.20 and 7.19. Seems we have our hot and humid tune up figured out. Derek and I had lots of fun, we sold lots of T-shirts and both of us signed many autographs.

Next event is Sunday Niagara at Lancaster Dragways's 1/8 mile

Saturday and Sunday August 11th and 12th

Lancaster Dragway's, Sunday Niagara

Two days of great nostalgia racing. Derek and us were joined by Bob Rosetty and his 2 cars, along with Dennis Salzwimmer's Chris Gerber driven Rubber City Connection. We raced Rosetty, once with his Rollin' Stoned Cuda and once with his Tweety's Rat Vega. We also ran a third time against The Rubber City gang. Being an 1/8 mile track, our mid to upper 4.50's were some of out best 1/8 ET's to date. We were very pleased. We were also the fastest car on the property...until "The Rude Stude" arrived.

Next stop, the biggie! 8 funny cars for Geezers at The Grove at Maple Grove Dragway

Saturday September 8th

Maple Grove Dragway's Geezers At The Grove

Well here it is! Our biggest match race of the year. Eight booked in funny cars, but eleven showed up. The roster included Bit's And Pieces, Screamin' Eagle, Boggs Bros., Rubber City Connection, Rollin' Stoned, Tweety's Rat, Total Insanity, Screamin' Insanity, Nightmare, Sharky's Machine and The Sweetman Bros. We made to the finals for the booked in cars, Chicago style eliminations. We faced off against Rocky Pirrone's, John Headley shoed Screamin' Eagle '77 Firebird. We were trying for our first "6", and the 7.08 in the first round gave us a tease. We gave it our all, but fell short of the "6" with an ever so close 7.01. We also got beat to the stripe with Headley's 6.60 ET, after a huge holeshot.

Next event is the Fall Nostalgia Drags at Lebanon Valley Dragway.

FINALLY!

Sunday September 30th

Lebanon Valley Dragway's Fall Nostalgia Drags

We finally broke into the sixes, with a first round 6.97. Unfortunately, a malfunctioning CO2 bottle caused us to miss our first round match up with "Hollywood" Lobban's AMX. In round 2, it was Derek's turn for mis-fortune, a broken throttle cable plagued him. We ran our person abest, 6.95@ 194 mph!

One last show in October at Capitol Raceway.

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