Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Night of Fire!!!!!!!!!!

This past Saturday, Jonathan and I went back to the Muncie Dragway in the middle of nowhere Muncie, Indiana. The event that night was Night of Fire. Where along with the locals that like to bring there cars to the track, but also an exhibition race for anyone with a monster machine. The prime attraction was the semi with jet engines. Unfortunately just as he was at the line about to go, he broke down. Then the thunderstorm came. Luckily we managed to get some pics while walking around behind the scenes. We got to see some of the other exhibition cars go down the track, but I wasn't able to get very many pics since they are obviously going so fast. About 9:15, they called the races and everyone ran for there cars.
Jonathan and I have been to this track many times before, but this was only our second year seeing "Night of Fire". Since we saw the Jet Semi last year, we weren't to hip on waiting around for him to fix the truck. I'm a big fan of the long Dragsters while Jonathan loves all the hot rods loaded with the Nitrous.

Dragster with a really cool paint job.
Exhibition dragster "Blue Ice" loaded with a jet engine. (as if they aren't fast enough)
Awesome Corvette that did really well on the track.
Premier attraction "Shockwave". Jet Semi that broke down on the line.
Yes, this is a quad-runner also loaded with a jet engine. A bit scary to watch shooting down the track
No. This one doesn't have a jet engine. I just thought it was goofy looking
A perty Camaro doing his burnout.
This was really cool. This guy is a local that he and his wife have been building up this truck. It is just a diesel Dodge Ram loaded with 2 sacks, Nitrous and large racing tires. They said they were experimenting with the Nitrous for the first time. I can't recall how fast his time was, but he got a wow and a standing ovation from the crowd.
The only semi-clear picture we could get on the track. Only because he did his burnout all the way up to where we were. We caught this as he was backing up to the line.

2 comments:

Regi said...

I've only been a drag strip a coule times that I can remember. Looks like you had fun. Thanks for posting the pics!

LJL said...

We've been by that track but never to a race.