Royal Purple Continues DDS Sponsorship for 2012

Share on Facebook

Dallas received his trophy in the mail yesterday. Thank you to those who voted for him.

Share on Facebook

Burn Out Calendar 2012

Share on Facebook

Although the Points Championship is all over — there’s a small (but hopefully will grow) non-points race called the “Lonestar Shootout” coming up that will include NSS racing.

Qualifying is Saturday and Eliminations is Sunday. If you’re interested in seeing some good drag racing — come on out. We’re in the process of getting the Vitamin C ready for me to race — as the engine was blown in the Texas Whale.

If you’re interested in Nostalgia Super Stock racing — we have a pretty good site at NSS Racing | Nostalgia Super Stock Racing and a forum at NSS Racing Forums

Share on Facebook

Featuring Mopars

This wall calendar was just completed from hi-res photos taken at Bowling Green and Joliet this year. The NSS Mopars 2012 Wall Calendar will make a great Christmas gift for your Mopar fanatic friends, look good in your trailer — or just tack it to the headboard of your bed. The below are low resolution thumbnails of the the calendar cover and pages. Rest assure the actual pages use 300DPI images of over 4MB per photo — taken with professional photo equipment. Please pass this information along to any of the Mopar sites you visit.

You can find this NSS calendar and more Nostalgia Super Stock memorabilia at www.cafepress.com/texasbigbird

Share on Facebook

Featuring General Motors

This wall calendar was just completed from hi-res photos taken at Bowling Green and Joliet this year. The NSS GM 2012 Wall Calendar will make a great Christmas gift for your General Motors fanatic friends, look good in your trailer — or just tack it to the headboard of your bed. The below are low resolution thumbnails of the the calendar cover and pages. Rest assure the actual pages use 300DPI images of over 4MB per photo — taken with professional photo equipment. Please pass this information along to any of the GM sites you visit.

You can find this NSS calendar and more Nostalgia Super Stock memorabilia at www.cafepress.com/texasbigbird

Share on Facebook

Share on Facebook

We’d left on Monday (the 3rd) in the evening, and drove to Doug Duell’s dealership in Evansville, IN. We’d dropped the Whale off on the way back from Milan to fix a transmission issue, new convertor, fix the brakes, and some other issues. Also dropped off a chunk that use to be in the red Coronet some years ago, and had some 4.57 gears dropped shipped to the shop — as I felt like the 4.88 gears in the car right now are too steep. So we picked up the Whale and dropped off Big Red Ram to convert to an automatic for Dallas to start running.

We left Doug’s shop at about noon Wednesday, and drove to Indy as they had a test and tune Wednesday night. At the track for the first T&T, the first pass had me launching at 2500 on the new convertor — and shifting at 7400 to 2nd, and 6800 to third. The car did an unimpressive 9.84 with an equally unimpressive 1.44 60′. While the slicks only had 10 passes on them, they were getting old — and had cracking on the sidewalls — so I thought that might be part of the issue. I’d contacted Mickey Thompson, and arranged for them to bring some 33X10.5Ws when they came to the track.

For the second pass I was in the Left lane, the car felt like it broke something (I thought the ring gear) on the launch, and turned a hard left towards the wall. I kept it off the wall and backed it up the track prep entrance. Nothing was clanking or grumbling — so it didn’t sound like a ring gear. Doug (who had lined me up) said I’d dropped a ton of sand (from when the car was sand blasted) at the line on the left and I’d run over it — and he suspected that to be the problem. I didn’t feel so sure about that as it really felt like something had broke. As I’m pulling onto the return road the steering felt screwed up on the sweeping turn — and then was alright for the rest of the way back to my pit. I was starting to wonder if I was imagining things. In the pits we jacked the rear off the ground and found the right wheel turned in Park — while the left didn’t. Called Matt at Racecraft to see what he thought — and he indicated that the chunk I gave him to put the new gears on had an aluminum spool. Frankly I hadn’t opened the box with the chunk since it was pulled from the Coronet in favor of a 4.34 gear — and didn’t realize it had an aluminum spool. We were getting kicked off the track for the night — so we loaded the cars, and got in line outside the track.

The track opened at about noon on Thursday for the NMCA event, and after Dallas, Doug and Jimmy Ray teched their cars in — they all pitched in to help tear mine apart. As expected, the splines on the right side of the spool were ripped out.

All of the splines on the right side ripped out

It is good to have friends that know what they’re doing

By 4PM the car was reassembled with the 4.88 geared chuck I’d had been running, and Kevin Gass had run to the autoparts store to get 4 quarts of Royal Purple gear lube. Mickey Thompson pulled onto the track at 5PM and mounted the new slicks while we had dinner. By 7PM, we were ready to put the car on the trailer.

All Fixed and ready to be put away for the night

We were parked right next to the gate, and despite the track being full Thursday — there was still a long line waiting there Friday morning. NMCA was overwhelmed when double the cars expected showed. They had to print up some paper tech cards, tickets, and qualifying stubs. A couple of hours later the Fire Marshall came and NMCA had run out of room — so they moved back the ticket shack back a 1/2 mile and started parking cars on the circle track. The track was pretty clogged up all weekend long.

Back to my pits, I teched my car at 8AM Friday, and got in line for my first Time Trial. I ran another uninspired 9.8 with an equally uninspired 60′ with the steeper gears and new slicks. I had lowered my shift points to 7000/7000, and rejetted the carbs to 113 square. For my second (and last) TT, my brakes didn’t hold for the burnout, and crept deep stage on the launch. I was only able to launch at 2000 RPM instead of 2500 — but the time slip showed a 60′ better by .050. Obviously my car liked 2000 better than 2500. I went and changed my Index to C/FX before Qualifying started. We ran a round of Qualifying on Friday night — and I was a slow 9.80.

For Saturday morning, I pulled the passenger seat (33 pounds) out of the car, and at 11:45AM I ran my second round of Qualifying. I ran over 1/10 too fast — at a 9.61@141. For the last round of qualifying — I put the seat back in and added 98 pounds in the previously empty weight box. Due to a lot of "Stupid People Tricks" from the LSX drivers (leaving radiator cap off car and hitting wall, oiling down the whole track after blowing an engine, and other tricks from the Chevy guys — we didn’t get to run the final Qualifying until near midnight. My car was 1/10 too slow now — and I was perplexed. When I got back to the pits — I was told that Dallas had been pushed back — so I went after him to tow back. Turns out his car was dripping water from the water pump. We jacked the engine up. removed the elephant ears, and spent half the night fixing the corrosion on the aluminum elephant ears (from being attached to an iron block for the last 8 years) and replaced the four water pump gaskets.

Good Times at 2AM

At 2AM, when we were putting my car on the trailer, we heard a faint hissing we couldn’t identify. At 7AM Sunday morning, I took my car for a warmup drive while we waited for the weather to get a little warmer before filling Dallas’ car with water. We couldn’t hear the hiss — so the attention was focused on Dallas’ car. First round of Elimination came early. Dallas got caught sleeping at the tree and was out. I had an .016 RT — but the car backfired about 60′ out. Fortunately, Gary had red lit to give me the win — so I didn’t have to run the car hard. I slowly drove it back to the pits – initially thinking like it was a carb issue. In the pits there was a nasty sound coming from  left header. After pulling the valve covers — we found the rockers and pushrods looked OK, but the the #5 exhaust rocker was .020 too loose. They hot lapped us to the second round — and so we put the car on the trailer as we suspect (will confirm this afternoon) and bent valve.

In NSS, Kurt Neighbor came to the event in first for the points, Doug Duell right behind him in second, and technically Steve Wilson, Barry Camp and Doug Poskevitch also had a chance for the Championship since this was a double points race. Duell’s car broke a ring gear in the 2nd round of qualifying — and 00-Joe Ewing pulled out of the event to let Doug qualifying and run his 63 Dodge. Duell, Poskevitch, Wilson won their first round. I was to go up against Whompin Wedge — but was out. It was a shame as Johnson also couldn’t make the call, and the third round would have been a Bye.

In the Second Round DW Hopkins took out Duell — putting Hopkins as technically having a chance if he were to go all of the way — and Neighbors, Wilson, and Poskivitch dying in the next round. Neighbors and Poskevitch won their second round — but Fred Rader took out Wilson. Fast forward to the Semis — it was DW Hopkins taking out Jim Netherland — and Neighbors getting the Bye. NMCA reports that in the finals between DW and Kurt — that Kurt treed DW and as he was crossing the line for a win, DW hit the brakes too hard and crossing the centerline. He and Kurt got together at 135MPH, and Kurt then hit the wall. While the report is that Kurt is OK — his car is reportedly not. I was on the road and didn’t see that the final — so my information is third party from the NMCA site.

So Kurt has the bitter-sweet Win of the event and the Championship — but a wrecked car.

By my count, the rest of the Top 10 include DW, Wilson, Poskevitch, and Duell in the Top half; and Dallas, Camp, Young, Sanders, and I in the bottom half. It was a terrible year for me. I only lost two rounds (-.002 RT in Atlanta and giving Donnie Wilson the .004 win in Bowling Green), but couldn’t get to the line for five of the seven races in two different cars for strange issues. We’ll get that fixed for next year.

The below is the Eliminations Rounds. There were 39 cars qualifying.

Round: E6

Lane Name Number Dial In R/T ET MPH
L KURT NEIGHBOR 7050 0.00 .043 9.326 136.23 W
R DW HOPKINS 7899 0.00 .097 9.472 135.82

Round: E5

Lane Name Number Dial In R/T ET MPH
L JIM NETHERLAND 7012 0.00 -.008 10.459 126.82
R DW HOPKINS 7899 0.00 .003 9.444 141.56 W

L KURT NEIGHBOR 7050 0.00 1.518 12.052 0.00 W
R  BYE

Round: E4

Lane Name Number Dial In R/T ET MPH
L KURT NEIGHBOR 7050 0.00 .024 9.297 144.74 W
R TD Holland 7600 0.00 .029 10.390 119.43

L BYE
R JIM NETHERLAND 7012 0.00 -.042 10.491 126.76 W

L  BYE
R DW HOPKINS 7899 0.00 .021 9.521 141.36 W

Round: E3

Lane Name Number Dial In R/T ET MPH
L KURT NEIGHBOR 7050 0.00 .016 9.267 140.52 W
R DONNIE WILSON 7700 0.00 .022 10.522 126.62

L DOUG POSKEVICH 7025 0.00 .151 11.998 112.06
R TD Holland 7600 0.00 .010 10.628 109.33 W

L JIM NETHERLAND 7012 0.00 .040 10.463 125.73 W
R FRED RADER 7943 0.00 .105 10.441 124.36

L DW HOPKINS 7899 0.00 .000 9.544 143.69 W
R BYE

Round: E2

Lane Name Number Dial In R/T ET MPH
L Michael Sanders 7014 0.00 .108 9.444 142.67
R TD Holland 7600 0.00 .058 10.695 124.34 W

L BILL WHITE 7251 0.00 -.102 8.783 153.32
R DONNIE WILSON 7700 0.00 .004 10.504 126.93 W

L BOB DURLING 7274 0.00 .073 11.037 121.13 W
R REES SMITH 7817 0.00 .087 11.028 117.44

L JEFF MILLWARD 7270 0.00 -.023 9.764 137.82
R KURT NEIGHBOR 7050 0.00 -.032 9.242 144.66 W

L STEVE WILSON 7092 0.00 .087 10.976 119.73
R FRED RADER 7943 0.00 .029 10.552 126.91 W

L DOUG POSKEVICH 7025 0.00 .099 11.949 112.22 W
R MICK ALLES 7410 0.00 .061 10.923 120.64

L JIM NETHERLAND 7012 0.00 .029 10.510 124.68 W
R AL CORDA 7440 0.00 .101 9.945 134.90

L DOUG DUELL 1 0.00 .039 10.472 120.96
R DW HOPKINS 7899 0.00 .023 9.553 141.30 W

Round: E1

Lane Name Number Dial In R/T ET MPH
L DAVID MUNSTERMAN 7068 0.00 .294 10.048 134.36
R REES SMITH 7817 0.00 .002 11.079 108.27 W

L BOB DURLING 7274 0.00 .091 11.216 120.32 W
R GREGG FRANZINO 7122 0.00 -.006 9.400 127.74

L DOUG DUELL 1 0.00 .061 10.548 112.76 W
R MIKE ROSSITER 7311 0.00 -.042 8.957 150.00

L Steven Young 7130 0.00 .061 11.478 109.79
R DONNIE WILSON 7700 0.00 .083 10.530 126.59 W

L Michael Sanders 7014 0.00 .184 9.255 143.31 W
R JEFF FREES 7691 0.00 .118 9.736 136.26

L JEFF MILLWARD 7270 0.00 .080 9.774 135.97 W
R ROY DEAN 7249 0.00 .078 12.472 100.04

L JERRY GODDARD 7007 0.00 .075 10.245 131.00 W
R BARRY CAMP 7770 0.00 .081 9.234 140.80

L ROBERT MOSHER 7556 0.00 -.014 10.940 123.56
R CASEY FAUSS-JOHNSON 7004 0.00 .079 9.658 138.57 W

L STEVE WILSON 7092 0.00 .064 11.069 106.85 W
R DALLAS SCHULTZ 7602 0.00 .209 10.130 114.74

L JIMMY RAY 7572 0.00 .010 11.043 121.66
R KURT NEIGHBOR 7050 0.00 .008 9.265 129.00 W

L DOUG POSKEVICH 7025 0.00 .072 12.029 109.47 W
R MIKE MOSS 7066 0.00 .090 10.051 134.30

L GARY BEEMER 7421 0.00 -.048 12.211 90.89
R Dave Schultz 7601 0.00 .016 12.823 70.27 W

L SCOTT BOURRELL 7425 0.00 .042 11.181 115.98
R DW HOPKINS 7899 0.00 .057 9.545 127.82 W

L JIM NETHERLAND 7012 0.00 .051 10.514 123.15 W
R Tim Frees 7963 0.00 .047 11.047 117.08

L AL CORDA 7440 0.00 .038 10.251 110.81 W
R DAN KUENSTER 7667 0.00 .287 11.524 112.51

L CHARLIE KUENSTER 7042 0.00 0.000 0.00
R TD Holland 7600 0.00 .008 10.425 120.28 W

L  BYE
R FRED RADER 7943 0.00 .038 10.519 126.98 W

L SKIP KOESTER 7022 0.00 0.000 0.00
R BILL WHITE 7251 0.00 .008 8.771 153.18 W

L Martin Bertagnoli 7300 0.00 0.000 0.00
R MICK ALLES 7410 0.00 .113 11.024 122.33 W

Please check with the forums as we have a race in Houston, the PRI is coming up in December, we need to vote for our NSS drivers for the Awards by 10/17, and there are some other important issues being discussed. www.nssracing.com/forums. Also, please don’t forget that the 2013 NSS Wall Calendars are ready for purchase.

Share on Facebook

Share on Facebook

I just got off the phone with Scott Sparrow with NMCA to see if they would give NSS a Wally to the winner of the Houston race, and he got with Trey and Charlie Harmon — who agreed that there will be a NSS Wally.

For those who didn't know, for 2011 NMCA partnered up with the NHRA Unleashed series — and winners of the point series races since Joliet have received a Wally. The rumor I'd heard was this was a one year only deal — and I don't think that NMCA/NHRA will make an announcement (either way) concerning 2012 before PRI.

So, if you haven't won a Wally so far, and don't win the one in Indy — then Houston might be the last opportunity you will ever get to put a Wally on your book shelf.

The other good thing about the Houston race — is that NMCA will return all of the NSS Driver's Fees back to the racers in their purse. The more who come to take their shot at the Wally in NSS — the bigger the NSS purse will be.

The South need some help from its northern brothers to get Nostalgia Super Stock in front of potential future NSS racers, and we need to try to show NMCA that Houston would be a great warm weather replacement for the first or last race of  the year. Few NSS racers like Bradenton, but NMCA has to have it proven to them that Houston is a good track to run when it gets too cold up North. Please make plans to make the Houston race November 11-12.

More information at: http://www.nssracing.com/forums/showthread.php?59-There-will-be-NSS-racing-in-Houston

Share on Facebook

Right now as I type this, the calendar http://www.cafepress.com/texasbigbird/7998403 uses 2011 pages and hasn't yet converted to 2012 pages. Generally in October they convert the pages to 2012 — it those interested want to wait until the pages change to 2012. The link will be the same for now with the 2011 pages — and after the conversion of the calendar to 2012.

Share on Facebook

We left the shop at 9am in Richmond, TX on Wednesday, and drove the 700+ miles to Jackson, TN for the night. On the road again at 8am Thursday morning we hooked up with Doug Duell in Louisville in the afternoon. After dinner in a truck stop north of Dayton, OH; and we made it to the track's staging area late Thursday night.

Recapping my season thus far, I started off running the Vitamin C, and ran great at Bradenton, FL — Qualifying #1, but getting pushed back in the Semis of Eliminations for 6 drops of clean water. Back home we pulled the motor and replaced a freeze plug in one of the heads that had a pin hole leak. In Atlanta I qualified well — but went -.002 red in the first round of Eliminations. I found out I had an E-Coli infection just before the Maryland race — and I only went there to qualify the car with one pass (to not lose bonus points) — but decided to run all of the Qualifying and Eliminations once there. The car ran well in Qualifying, but on Sunday morning it was strangely 1/10 off in the first round of Eliminations. Back home Dallas found the timing off a little and we attributed that to be the problem. Still hurting from E-Coli, we went to the race in Joliet. The car was running slow in the two Time Trials, and I had to unbolt every ounce of extra weight to get it to run the number in the second Time Trial. In the first round of Eliminations, the car ran the number — but the motor didn't sound right so I shut it down after I crossed the line. After towing it back to the pits, we found water coming out of the number 3 spark plug hole. Pulling the heads found water seeping in the #3 cylinder. Obviously this was the problem in Maryland, and this was my third first round loss. Back home we found the block was not repairable (for racing) and a search began for a good 426 Max-Wedge block. I had surgery 10 days before the Dave Duell Classic in Bowling Green, but I couldn't miss this race as it is my favorite. Dallas couldn't come to this race — so I ran his car, which I last ran in 2006 before making it a NSS car for Dallas to run. I won class for A/NSS on Saturday — but lost a close race in the 1st round of Eliminations against Donnie Wilson for the Big Show on Sunday. Since I was so far back in the points (10th of 81), I decided to start running the Texas Whale the rest of the year to work the bugs out of this completely new race car. So the Whale was in the trailer for Milan, along with the black Coronet that Dallas runs.

The track opened at 10AM, and we were pitted, had established credentials, and teched the cars in by 1PM. At 3PM I ran my first pass and the car was a little slow because of a bad burnout.

For the second (and last Time Trial) at 5PM, I made a adjustment to the shocks settings, launched lighter, and change my shift points a little. That got me a little closer to my 10.0 Index.

 That put me to where I wanted to be. The first round of Qualifying was to be at 7PM. I put 60 pounds in the car to compensate for the .05 too fast and the anticipated weather change. We wound up sitting in the staging lanes for a lot longer than I had planned for as the temperature dropped — and was about 5 pounds too light to not break out.

Pulling onto the trailer — the car sounded like Hell. Fast forward an hour and we found all of the Torque Converter bolts loose. Further, the flexplate was hosed. So at 2AM — the transmission was finally out of the car, and the flexplate unbolted.

At 7AM I am running around the pits looking for a Flexplate. Never found one, so when Mancinni Racing opened at 10AM, I ordered a plate, the crank/converter bolts, and had a friend in Detroit (thanx Doc) bring them to the track. I missed the 2nd Qualifying at 10AM. By 2PM, we threw in the towel because the transmission side snout on the converter was chewed up (indicating I needed a transmission bushing/seal) and the crank side snout on my replacement converter wasn't milled properly for my crankshaft. So the car was put on the trailer.

Dallas qualified #13 of 21, and ran Barry Camp in the first round, and Barry bested him. Doug Duell had a better than 300 point lead — but was also knocked out in the first round. The 2nd in Points (Steve Wilson), 3rd (Kurt Neighbor), and 4th (Doug Poskevitch) all advanced through both the second round and into the Semis — where Kurt ran Steve, and Doug had the bye. Poskevitch and Neighbor met in the finals — with Neighbor winning the Wally. Now you can throw a blanket over 1st through 4th, with Neighbor now most likely in the lead. The double–points finals in Indy ought to be very interesting.

On the way home, we dropped the Whale off at Doug Duell's chassis guy in Evansville. He'll deal with the transmission/converter, change the gears from 4.86 to 4.57, fix the brakes, weld on some tie down loops, and align the front end  — as he had an immediate opening and was on our way home, and then again back to Indy.

All in all, the Whale drove well and has far fewer wrinkles than most brand new race cars. While I'm disappointed in not making it to Eliminations — I'm not disappointed in the car. It feels very comfortable to drive and I think I'll be running it in the FX Indexes next year.

While I have no chance for the Championship in 2011 — I intend to be a spoiler at Indy with this car, and make a hard run for the ring with it in 2012.

Share on Facebook

Quote:

I originally created this web site to have news and forums for all class of Nostalgia Drag Racing. However, while Nostalgia Super Stockers participated — I couldn’t really personally find others interested Nostalgia Funny Cars, Nostalgia Muscle Car, Gassers, Diggers, Slingshots, etc. As such, I’ve redesigned the forums to cater primarily to the NSS crowd, and likewise will focus on the NSS Racing web site. I’m going to put up this domain and web site for sale. The first $2500 gets the domain name transferred to them (I think there’s 8 year left before renewal for $9 a year at Southern Star Hosting), the hosting account with a MySql database at Big Kahuna Hosting for 12 months ($150 a year there after), and a complete backup of the web site on a CD-Rom. The site is very easy to maintain without knowing a lick of programming code. All of the hard work has been done. Optionally, I’ll make all of the changes you want on a per hour charge — including adding a forum if that’s what you want. This site offers an excellent opportunity for banner and eBay revenue for an industrious person interested in soliciting sponsors and advertisers. If after 60 days I’ve not sold this domain/web site — I will delete the site and forward it to www.NSSRacing.com. If you are interested, please use the contact link to contact me.

Share on Facebook

Since I was confined to rest after surgery, it was a good time to upgrade to a better board of forums for NSS Racers (many of the reasons explained on the board) from all over the country to get together to compare notes and swap lies. I spent three solid days of my time, and several hundreds of dollars to put together what I feel to be a pretty nice place to promote NSS Racing to the outside world — and provide some comradery for NSS Racers.

The web address is pretty easy to remember: www.NSSRacing.com/forums/

Once there, you're going to see a collection of forums to discuss NSS topics, NSS Events, and technical questions & answers concerning NSS Cars. There is also one off-topic forum for the occasional less controversial off-topic conversations. Finally in the forums, there are the classified ads. You will note that at the top of the page there is an index of the last 15 topics, consolidated from all of the forums — but you can ignore that (if you wish) and slide down to just the categories that interest you.

Under the index, you will see a random selection of five NSS cars selected from the "Staging Lanes". Each viewing of the main Forums page should give you a different selection of the member's cars. You are encouraged to add your car to the Staging Lanes. It takes about 5 minutes to add your car, and a couple of the digital photos of it from your computer. You can also upload the car's best time slip if you wish.

While on the subject of photos, each member (and membership is not only free, but quick and easy) has the ability to upload up to a total of 100 NSS related photos into a number of photo albums. For instance you can have an album with some photos of building the car, and album with track photos of the car, and an album of pit party photos from one of the events. Once these photos are in your albums — they can easily be posted in your posts with a simple Copy & Paste. I'll pay for the server hosting and bandwidth — I just ask you keep the photos NSS related.

Another feature of the Board are the calendars. Each member has a private calendar that he can use as a personal calendar — and he has access to a Public calendar to list (and give information on) NSS race events. These events listed in the Public calendar are displayed at the bottom of the board's Index page starting 90 days prior to the event starting, and disappear after the event. Now members can simply add their own events instead of having to email me to add them.

Back to the forums, one of better features over the old Pro Bards I use to use — is WYSIWYG posting. That means What you see is what you get. You can literally copy and paste posts including photos and links, without having to use code like url and img — like we had to on the old board. I also have total control over your registration information, and you can trust me to keep it private. I don't believe that was the case when we were using the Pro Boards forum. I own the software license, I own the server, and only I (currently — but I'm looking for Admin and Moderator help) have access to the information. I will not give, sell, or lease this information short of the FBI beating down my door with a warrant — should a member go crazy.

On the subject of help — I will be looking for two moderators (who visit daily) to help me keep the forums clean and spam-free; and one assistant administrator with a little computer savvy to help with the more complex duties of the board — and be a backup to me if something should happen. We'll get more into that a month or so down the road.

Using the board is easy, and the FAQ link in the Navbar of the board has the answer to just about any question you might have using the forums. There is a Help/Suggestion forum to ask questions if you can't find the answer in the Frequently Asked Questions — and I'll update the FAQ after answering. Should you have a registration problem — click the contact link at the bottom and tell me about it — and we'll get you fixed up. There should be no excuse why every NSS Racers isn't registered and participating.

There is something called Social Groups. Any member can create a social group of any interest he feels other members might have — and they can have their own little board for discussing those topics. You can make this Social Group Private or Public, and have any member join or have it be by your invitation only. I can envision someone creating and administering to a Christian social group, or a Social Group for a Regional group of NSS Racers, or an interest like politics (I'd narrow the focus to Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian, Socialist, …), motorcycles, photography, or guns. Any reasonable Social Group (and I would consider hate or porn to not be reasonable) can be created and administered by a member. Each member can administer up to five Social Groups — but start with just one to get your feet wet.

Another feature is a Profile Page that you can customize into your own personal web page. There is a lot of flexibility with look, feel, and colors — so give it a shot.

 Please don't just be a stalker — but jump in there and participate. It doesn't make you a geek! I have no ulterior motives in building this board, or the home site to it. My only goal is to simply promote NSS racing to the public (more fans), event promoters (more races and bigger purses), potential NSS racers (more and younger drivers to carry on); and to create a virtual Pit where NSS Racers can get together and discuss the types of things we generally discuss in our Physical pits. We don't need a Mexican Standoff where everyone waits for others to post before they feel the board is worthy of their post — we need leaders to get the ball rolling so the followers jump in. This is not just the best place for Nostalgia Super Stock Racers to gather on the Internet — it is really the only place. Build it, and they will come! OK — I've done my job building it — now it is time for y'all to check it out and participate. Together we can better promote the finest class of drag racing to the world.

Thank you for reading this. Please pass it along to other NSS Racers.

Dave Schultz

Share on Facebook

Share on Facebook