After years of hard work Hemi Joel finally got his '31 Plymouth Coupe to the track to test tonight in preparation for Drag Week 2018! And with a week to spare before Joel & Jeff leave for Atlanta lol. Joel had hoped to be ready to test at Rock Falls Raceway in Wisconsin on a couple recent weekends, but there were too many things to finish, and those opportunities passed. Brainerd International Raceway runs a Wednesday night Street Drags program periodically over the summer, mostly a grudge race and time trial type event for licensed vehicles, and last night was one of the last chances to get some runs before Drag Week. Joel's Trunk Monkey Jeff and I meet Joel at his house Wednesday afternoon and packed up some tools and loaded up the coupe. We had a perfect day, with temps in the low 70's, and clear sky's. Brainerd Raceway opens the gates at 4pm, and then starts tech inspection and lining up cars in staging, and starts running cars down the track at 5pm, running until sundown, which was about 8:30pm. The track announcer told everyone that they had a record turnout for a Wednesday night Street Drag event at over 160 cars, so unfortunately we were limited on time runs. We're not going to post any ET results here ( sorry ), so as not to tip off any of his Drag Week competitors that might be watching, but Joel was able to get 3 relatively mild passes in, which helped in getting comfortable with the car. He's got a few issues to address that cropped up, along with a bunch of things that are still on the to-do list, but right now things look good for making Drag Week. Joel will be pretty busy over the next week to finish getting ready, so I don't know if he will have a chance to comment here, but maybe. Meanwhile, here's a few pictures from tonight.
