mopar1968

Welcome back 409 i am Mark the Quite one of the bunch :!:

MEMRACING62

welcome back 409....we aint that bad ! :lol: Im mike

Big409

Thanks, I'm Tom .I am going to try to post a pic on here under what you look like. I see most of you gyys are older then me. I sure could use some of your knowledge. Thanks again.

mopar1968

Don't forget to sign up under newbie thread :!:

dragonmaster093

some of us on here are a$$hole when it is required

Incognegro

I agree 1000%. I went to an episode of Pinks in NJ few years back, it was one of the worst times I ever had. We were harassed by the dumb ass state police who were at the track making sure safety equipment was used and done right.Which to me is a joke, I been drag racing a while too and dont need some State police rookie who went to a 4 hour class telling me how to hook my seat belts up. In fact i let him give me an entire demonstration for 5 minutes on the seat belts on the car I was near, finally I said "thanks but thats not my car and walked away"..lol

The techs were complete dicks, the staff sucked and didnt come anywhere near the racers the entire time. The only time I saw anyone from the sho was when I did my arm drop pass.

we waited around all day to be rushed up, rushed on the burn outs, rushed to stage for nothing. The rumor around was they were picking a 9.90 class even days before. And thats what they picked, 9.90.

I get pissed watching his show with his arrogant attitude "well its my show" blah blah blah...Then he shows favors, and always has to make it a Chevy vs Ford race, thats original.

The original pinks which they dont eve do anymore was even more absurd. People would bring 8 second cars to an 11 second race then people would bullshit for car lengths. That aint racing thats TV.

Incognegro

Im a little confused on this. Can you clarify what he did, Im not following it? Did he pick the fastest 16 cars?

zipper06

He wasn't there the first day at all, The timing system went bad (due to some rain)in one lane, so they only qualified cars in the lane which the timing lights were working. Rich finally shows up the second day and was told of the problem. By the time he got there half of the people and racers had left and went 35 miles to another track to race. They had picked 16 cars the first day, but many of them had left, so he decided to take down all the advertising, and not film the race, most of the spectators didn't show up the 2nd day either due to the crap that happened on friday. I don't even know how much he did pay out, but they ran the race with no clocks, so no one could run too fast/break out. It was first to the strip came back.
Admittly they did have a good race at Memphis the yr. before though and it was telivised.
The race at Shrevesport i mentioned was also telivised and some of the locals living close to me were picked, but none of the guys that i knew.

Zip.

Incognegro

Gotcha. I think thats how they picked the cars in NJ too, on the first day.They said Friday was test and tune only so I only showed up the first day to tech my car and the dicks made me take the car off the trailer just to tech it. I didnt want to run Friday and risk breaking, so I put it back on the trailer. I ran low 10's the next day, but they picked a 9.90 class anyway. It was a waste of money and a waste of a day if you ask me. They pick the cars based on what cars they like, not by who is fast or consistent. Also if you listen to the announcer in the Video, he thinks my car is a Toyota..He says "Toyotas are great cars"...
I drove a Nissan, that went 10.26-10.27 all day and night..

Here in my car at Pinks, Im the orange nissan.



http://s221.photobucket.com/albums/d...rent=pinks.mp4 :roll:

Tod74

Did they really stop doing the regular PINKS? The lose your race lose your ride thing? I actually liked that show.