NEW PINKS...LOL
 

a better gig for rich christensen. http://www.footrace.tv/

lose the race...lose your feet.

What a loser!! :roll: :roll:

loser? really? He is a goofus but not a loser.He is obviously very sucessful at what he chose to do for a living.

JMO

This show will be a winner. :?

So are they gonna do leg drops instead of arm drops :?:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Yep hes a loser! Remember when he dropped the motorcycle?

remember?!?!?! I never blew so much beer outta my nose doing a spitake in my life!!!!! :lol:

I am ashamed to admit I watched that whole video clip. :oops:

I was waiting for someone to pull out a gun. :o

I really liked it. :D

What a joke, his arm drop was a joke, and this is even a bigger joke. You have to have been to a pinks allout to realise what i'm saying. I know that there are fans/kids/nubies out there that says WOW!! that's so cool, but once you grow up you will reaslize just how stupid he is when it comes to drag racing.
On the other hand he may be able to promote his new show, and yes he'll make money from it. But that's because kids and some adults have no experience with real racing which he makes a joke of.
This show like all his previous shows is playing on the non racing public/real racers.

Sorry for the Rant, but he ranks 2nd to the most stupid person in the USA, but with a big following. Yes OBAMA, ranks first.

JMO

Zip.

I still liked it,and he will to on the way to the bank. I do respect your thoughts.

The last PINKS ALL OUT I watched I nearly spit out my supper laughing when I saw his arm drop.He was taking in a deepbreathe as he brought his arms upn sort of slow like a symphony conductor then BOOM!!! :lol:

I like the original PINKS SHOW

Zip you are one of the few that when you speak on here my ears are perked up...so many people just don't understand your back ground of where you have come from...folks if the ZIP MAN talks you need to pay attention... this forum has never had one bit of issues out of this 72 yr old man to boot on this forum as far as whinning or complaining.and he knows his s about real racing and where it came from..I bet many didn't know Zip holds a few NHRA WORD RECORDS.......AHHHH HA...I let the cat out didn't I Zip !!...oppps sorry lol ....I was a baby boy when zip was busting their ass here in my home town (starlight dragway) running A-B gassers against the likes of gene chromer,charles headen, dude moore,ED HORTON, JR NEAL,Ronnie Hopkins JR, Madd Thad Coleman,JR Johnson...yes JR JOHNSON.. A few appearances made by bob taska.....to let you guys know ZIP put them all on the trailer including my father Gary McSwain....ZIP HAS BEEN DOING THIS STUFF AS LONG AS MOST OF US HAS BEEN ALIVE !

oh yeah...Zip you are the man on this forum and anywhere else....you are the last of the dying breed that made racing what it is todayand the sad part many do not even realize it....

hey Zip you seen the movie starring anthony hopkins called "Worlds Fastest Indian". let me know if you haven't seen it soon as you can !!!!

u da man ZIP...and i luv ya Bro ! Merry Christmas.....I extend the same welcome to Tod74, Vince,maniac,memracing,bubster,ken our good loyal friend livley. Mr Top sportsman tom iceman Mcdunnah my brother FROM another mother., the beast,MIKEATON,CHRISBOWTIE454,KWRACING,MOPAR1968.. .IF I missed someone please let me know...

bjuice

im fairly young (mid 30's) and have always tried to respect the opinions of the majority of people on here and can tell those who know and those who think they know and zip has always been one of the "he knows his do-do and prolly more. And in any form of motor sports ive seen the shift from using your brains and ablity to big bank account/deep pockets in order to both be competive and just have fun. I grew up dirt track racing and back road drag racing where i guy could slap together a cheap car and run what ya brung and be competive. heck now even at the street fight here you got guys bringing barely legal cars with 700hp and twin turbo cars. One local guys 4th gen firebird payed local garage to look the other way for his inspection so it could be titled and liscensed in va to race at street fights.

Thanks for the memories Bjuice, i don't usually talk about my past, but the name on the side of my blown sm/blk Anglia (if i ever get it finished) will be OLD LEDGEN and i do hope to get it running in the near future. Again thanks for the memories.

Zip.

ZIP
 

I am with Zip on the post he made 100% and I ain't much younger and we talk daily on the phone. Later J.Smith 4621 racing

Bjuice reading this opened my eyes to to kind of people we have on here. I am glad I am a part of this great site. There is ALOT of knowledge that I hope to someday learn from these guys on here. I know I am just a pup when it comes to racing on the dragstrip but I have always wanted to do this. Maybe one day after my car is done and running me and you can be side by side on the strip. I also know it would be an honor to run right next to any one of you guys on here.

Whell I wish I could be with him when he cashes that Check. :shock:

Money and a walk to the bank ain't all there is in racing. It's the FUN factor first and foremost, then the camaraderie, the CHALLENGE of doing well with a thousand pieces of steel that YOU assembled, fine tuned, and RAN.

Zip, you remind me of Burt Monroe(Worlds fastest Indian,which I've watched a dozen or more times) and the Hudson Hornet in Cars the movie !! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

bingo :!: :!:

X2,LMAO

Thanks Brian, Merry Christmas to you and family :!: :!: And i didn't know this about ''ZIP'' congrats ''ZIP'' You tha man :!: :!:

Thanks Mopar, i gotta tell you that i have a friend just down the road about 15 miles that runs a Demon/Duster with a 360 on gas that can run SG/ 9.90 all day long and the car is not butchered, but she normally runs with a throttle stop and runs 6.50's in the 1/8 mi. This way she doesn't need and NHRA lic. I can tell you that she is very competative and wins a lot. Her and her husband have been running the car about 20 yrs and she's a white haired grandmother and some of the best people on this planet. Her son runs a Dart but not as quick.

Zip.

Absolutely right, it's never been about the money, i've raced since i was 16 yrs. old ( DD burt Monroe is my hero also i loved the movie and yes i have a copy of it )
I've not made a lot of money in racing in fact i've spent a lot more than i've made, but i would not trade any part of it/ racing for the experience's i've had and the people that i have met at the races and camaraderie of other racers.
One of the most embarressing situations in my life is that i've never had a wife who supportated my racing. My first wife of 14 yrs. as i can recall only came to the track 3 times, my second wife of 10 yrs. never saw me race. I can tell anyone who is young that if you are considering getting married and you are a racer make shure she's into racing or i'll guarentte it will cause heartaces in the future. I can't tell you number of times that i've gone too the track by myself with no help unless i was lucky enough to part next to a friend. I've been divorced since 1982 and i can tell you i still go to the track by myself most of the time. So racing can be a lonely world, unless you have support from a spouse, and i applaude those special ladies who do support them in racing, i just wish i would have or could find one myself.

Zip.

I can say i have run at pinks here at Bristol Dragway and it is a joke :!: All about the show and cameras not racers, This idiot knows nothing about dragracing or the cars running :!: JMO Mark

I wonder how much the Pinks punk knows about foot racing ?!
In my eyes, you are no authority to be a judge of ANYthing unless you've actually done it yourself...........

Not real sure why you guys hate him so much. Jealous I don't know. If its not about the cash, why is every one of his shows sold out. Ok mabe people want on TV but the $10,000.00 has a lot to do with it. This is just my opinion. So go on start kicking the crap out of me.

knowbody is going to kick you. :lol: everybody is intitled to there opinion. richs appeal is with non racers, not racers. like all reality shows his show has little in common with drag racing or racers. but if it gets more people interested in our sport thats a good thing, gets them to our tracks as spectators , it makes more likley some tracks might be able to stay in buisness, or come to the track and learn what real racers are and enter our hobby. no, I dont like rich but.....

Jealous, i doubt that, there are people on this site that could buy and sell Rich Christon (not me) my problem with him is that he runs the show to his benifit for the camera (eye candy) Case in point 2 or 3 yrs. ago at Memphis, the lights was only working in 1 lane the first day (no Rich that day) the second and final day he doesn't show up until 3:00PM and decides to turn off the cameras and runs the race first to the strip wins, we all know that a lot of the rascers run nitrous and can run faster than they qualify, they also cut the payoff to less than half because more than half of the racers left before the 2 nd day, but he had their entry fee in the bank. Another point at Shreeveport/Red River 4 or 5 of my friends went to the race They payed $100.00 entry fee for 3 runs to qualify, they got one run and everyone was too fast in the end they all ran in the 8's in the QTR. so they paid $100.00 to watch a race that ran what he chose 10.00 second cars, Sure he had 400 entries at that race and all the entry fees. This is not about real racing, it's about money for him.

409, you need to go the track and get some seat time to find out what real racing is all about and then you will realise what most of us are saying here on the forum.

JMO

Zip.

Sorry I will be at the bank with Rich, cashing his check. Just kidding . :lol: Your right I do need some seat time. Mostly wacthed my Dad. I do know one thing he loved to win with money or a trophy he was happy all the same. The trophy on the table for Mom to see the cash in the car to go faster. I reallly miss him. You may be right I have all the trophys and no cash. :cry:

I have always,and will always, have great respect for zipper. I knew some of what Brian posted,just not all the details.

You can't teach experience fellas. I think most here know that.

As far as PINKS....I like the show. It's entertaining. I think sometimes Rich breaks one off in a guy on the regular Pinks...makes them practically give a guy a race just to drag it out longer.That's not cool. Saw him do that a few years ago and the car that should have won ended up blowing up and they lost the car. It was "AMP" motorspoprts or something like that. Mustang shop.


Happy Holidays to all of you.

''Zip' You are right, I entered 10-1-10 and 10-2-10 here at Bristol on friday No rich,willyb,ken herring,but on saturday morning he finally showed up for the drivers meeting,During the meeting he said that Brian had allready picked the cars to run. 32 car's with 16 more on reserve if they couldn't get the 32 run off in time.So if they got thru half of the 32 in the time then they would stop and bring in the 16 on reserve and run them for the money Is this fair :?: I don't think so :!: This azzclown never saw all the car's run on friday.Car's picked on friday :!:

Hmmmm 409 You related to Rich or something :?: You seem to like him a awful lot :!: Have you ever run at a pinks event :?: If not then do it like some of us have then come back here and let's hear your opinion :!: And if you have then you must have been the car picked to win :!: :!:

hmmm maybe 409 is rich lol seem to know about as much imo

Agreed 111% John Allen AKA> ZIP is THE MAN!

Not fair I just like the show and the guy.. Sorry I don't agree with you. I lost my Dad not to long ago and thought I could come on here for some advice and friend ship. Well sorry I don't agree with you. Like my friend said you guys don't like people that don't agree with you.. I will look somewhere else to voice my opinion. And Im not Rick just someone that wanted to fit in. I will not come on here anymore . Happy now .. Thanks Like I said in a post befor kick the crap out of me because I don't agree with you. Zip you were kinda of cool thanks for the help.

Oh don't let this thread run you off the forum...lol This is a great site and a great bunch of guys. Stick around. We disagree all the time that's what keeps things interesting.

Sorry to hear about your father. Mine is my hero and thankfully he is still here.

X2.....Dont let a difference of opinion run you off....its what keeps thing intresting. :wink:

"Not fair I just like the show and the guy.. Sorry I don't agree with you. I lost my Dad not to long ago and thought I could come on here for some advice and friend ship. Well sorry I don't agree with you. Like my friend said you guys don't like people that don't agree with you.. I will look somewhere else to voice my opinion. And Im not Rick just someone that wanted to fit in. I will not come on here anymore . Happy now .. Thanks Like I said in a post befor kick the crap out of me because I don't agree with you. Zip you were kinda of cool thanks for the help."

I can say that just about everyone on here has lost a loved one, family or friend, at one time or another. We all share that news with each other on here but DO NOT 'use' that unfortunate incident to look for sympathy or to whine about how we're being 'treated' on this forum, but rather 'support'. We all have EARNED each others 'respect' over time AND interaction ( some of it quite SPIRITED !! ). As you can see, we ALL voice our 'opinions' but 'respectfully' (there's that word again) disagree at times if not often.

The real problem with forums, email, and internet chatting, is that without being able to see facial expressions or hear voice inflections, a comment can be seriously misunderstood. It really is an art to 'write' and not offend or misinform someone. We must all take a comment lightly and just ask again for clarification or a different approach.

There certainly are those who come on here to 'shake up the troops' with their 'opinions' but eventually cannot withstand the light hearted ribbing that OFTEN greets a NEWBY. It's kind of a 'get to know your character' type of greeting. To see if you 'fit' as you say. ANY group ANYwhere vets newbies in some way or another. The smart one is he or she who watches and learns before making any heavy accusations.

You'll not find on any other racing forum this type of kind, understanding, and supportive internet friendships than on here.

Welcome aboard and my sincere condolences for your father. Personally I've lost both parents, aunts, uncles and an easy dozen friends over the years. I honor them by being the best person I can be.