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Following the opening ceremonies
all the cars that chose to participate in the cackle assembled
in the staging lanes.
Leading off the pre cacklecar
parade was Steve Gibbs push starting Kenton Greth in the Speed
Sport Roadster.
Don Irvin headed to the
topend to organize the push starts.
The cars that chose to
push start came out first. Leading the parade was a local car,
The Old Timer AA/FD owned/driven by Jim Frye.
Another local favorite, the Lil
Ol Whine Maker rear engine funny car with Eddie Pauling getting
the honors.
Original driver, Jerry
Glenn was back in the seat of the Schultz & Glenn fueler.
Ewell-Bell-Stecker-Olson
AA/FD
Sam Chastain was in his
Iron Horse AA/FD
The Climax AA/FA with
Scott Krenzer in the seat.
Jerry Biven's Checkmate
AA/FD
Making its last appearance in
the United States was the Banshee AA/FD of Ross and Jude Preen
from Orange NSW. Australia. The car could only stay in the U.S.
for a year and it has been so that means another long boat ride
home.
Dunlap & Fuller "Westwind"
AA/FD
Jay Carpenter in his
Southwind AA/FD. Mike Clancy was in the car for the push start.
Bob Hirsch in his beautiful
Anaconda AA/FD.
Kol Johnson was in the
TV Tommy Ivo "Barnstormer" AA/FD
Rick McDonald got the
seat in the "ChiZler" AA/FD
The Allison powered Green
Monster A/D owned and driven by Jon Rowley.
Kenton Greth in the Speed
Sport II roadster.
Pesek & Lucas "Hustler"
AA/FD with Larry Brown up.
Three fuelers showed up sporting
the Steinegger & Eshenbaugh names. This recreation of their
very first car was done by Al Eshenbaugh in the last year and
was one of three legendary cars that debuted at this event.
Steinegger & Eshenbaugh
AA/FD
Leading off the static start
cars was Cherie Glenn in the Warren-Coburn-Miller AA/FD.
Don Ross in his Bobby
Langley's Scorpion B/D.
Don's Hot Rod Shop AA/A
Steinegger & Eshenbaugh K88
Ron Miller Tribute Car with owner Paul Henderson getting the
fire up.
Scrambler dragster is an original
1950s Arizona car owned by Blake Machine Driver is Lowell but
not sure of last name.
New fueler of Mike Elsberry,
driven and cackled by his brother Mitch.
Gruzen Family Newhouse
Special AA/FA
Inline buick FED driver
is the owner Wayne Ludington.
Without a lot of fuel cars, gassers
and lower class dragsters were part of the show like this A/Gasser
with original driver Del Weisner in the seat.
Peter Broadribb in his
Moody's Garage D/G Chevy.
Ford flat head FED driver
is owner Daryl Governale.
Terry Maestrejuan in
his Thunder Chief" AA/FD
Ross Howard in the Custom
Body Enterprises AA/FC.
Hunt Family AA/A
STATIC CACKLES FOLLOWED BY PUSH
STARTS
Because this all happened so
fast, the two of us were only able to cover a small portion of
the static start cars. This is what we got.
The push start cars were
led off by Gerry Glenn.
Due to an incident the remaining
push start cars were canceled. We hope you enjoyed the coverage.
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