THE FIRST TIME YOU SMELLED NITRO ?????? Where ? When ?

For me?..Tommy Ivo, Great Meadows,NJ (island)

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Gilder on January 15, 2012 at 3:56pm

Bud Burkey's little shop near Johnson City, TN in 1975. He fired up the car in a small 24x30 shop with the doors closed.

Permalink Reply by Larry Clayton on January 16, 2012 at 7:46pm

Budd's Creek, summer of 1969..    Loved it , so I bought it !

Permalink Reply by Thomas Warren on January 16, 2012 at 8:51pm

Hooked on Drag Racing, early 70's at Englishtown. The hook? Top Fuel push starts at night. Flames,the smell, the roar, the smoke, the speed but mostly THE SHOW.

Permalink Reply by Ron Horton on January 18, 2012 at 3:25pm

Though I'm sure it was earlier the first time I can absolutely remember was 1966 Aquasco Md...Don Gay's Nitro burning doorslammer Pontiac powered 4sp GTO racing Dyno's Comet flopper.Rosin,nitro and smack talk filled the air...those starting line interviews were great!

Permalink Reply by John R. Bockelman on January 18, 2012 at 11:51pm

July, 1962 at Houston International Raceway in Dickinson, Texas.  2 out of 3 match race between Bobby Langley and Vance Hunt with J.L. Payne driving.  Both dragsters had cast-iron 392 hemis with 6-71 blowers, Hilborn injector stacks, weed-burner headers and open chassis in front of the engine.  Slingshot Rails. First race, Langley had problems and Payne won easily.  Second round, both cars launched and laid down a solid quarter-mile of twin towers of white smoke.  NOTHING screams like a pair of blown cast-iron hemis on nitro.  The harmonics were the purest rock n' roll I've ever heard...I'd seen pictures of dragsters racing but I wasn't prepared for what I saw and heard that day. But when the scent of nitro hit my nostrils, I was instantly transformed into a lifelong nitro junkie.  With a flag start, they both ran 8-flat and the race was declared a dead heat. It was a day that changed my life.  I told Vance Hunt that when he was on the show last year.  Great thread, Wally!  Thanks!  Cheers, JB

Permalink Reply by Wally Bell on January 21, 2012 at 8:28am

Thank YOU JB

Permalink Reply by Wally Bell on January 21, 2012 at 8:27am

Nitro odor ...ahhhhh,  doesn't get old huh?

Permalink Reply by Jeff Gilder on January 21, 2012 at 2:00pm

Amazing, I just mentioned Bud Burkey on this thread and he just found me on facebook. Here is a pic outside Bud's old shop. He had just scared the crap out of me in this car a few minutes before this photo was taken. In this shot is the right rear quarter panel of my 1968 Z28. I wish I had the rest of it. Hell, I wish I had the car. Trying to get Bud to join here.

Check out his Hot Rods n Honeys page on fb http://www.facebook.com/pages/HotRods-AndHoneys/272513599471335

And his personal page here http://www.facebook.com/bud.burkey

Have some good memories of hangin around his shop and all his hot rods.

Permalink Reply by Robbie Solesbee on January 21, 2012 at 4:56pm

Back 1981 at Darlington Dragway. Loved going there. Mostly went for the pro mods. Animal Jim. Johnny Rocca, Scooty Cannnon and some diver I vaguely remember, I think is name was Wally Bell or something like that. Always wondered what happened to that guy.

Permalink Reply by The Wally Bell Show on January 22, 2012 at 8:20am

Thanks Robbie....

Permalink Reply by Robbie Solesbee on January 22, 2012 at 12:33pm

Wally I'd never forget you. You're in my photo card album with that black Harmons '69 Camaro. I liked the Fat Man Fabrications on the quarter panel.

Permalink Reply by Wally Bell on February 4, 2012 at 9:15am

Most recently...The Late Rick Stambaugh firing up the New Generation  Nitro Roadster in Fredericksburg...Matt & Rick..Priceless Day..Yellow Mist in the air....Sweet Sound

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