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17th September 2010 - Grandad, we love you.

Well what a cracking Euro finals that was, we went up on the Saturday and took my 86 year old grandad, Lenny Bennett. He had not been to a track since the very early 90's and had not seen or heard a drag racing car since...he loved it, had such a good day, even in his older years he still remembered alot, including the firing order! Didn't see alot of the old faces he new but he did recognise Bob Jarret so the memory is still working.

Such a great event to have taken him to also, brilliant sunny weather, good racing and the best
thing for me and my dad, was that he got to see his first 4 second ET and his first 300mph+ runs.
He loved it and we really enjoyed seeing him so happy. We were so chuffed.

On that note a huge well done to Andy Carter and the team on running the 4.61 and then a
stellar 4.57, great runs and well deserved after a tuff year for all of the team.

Also a big well done to all the 2010 championship winners.

On the journey home we were talking about our move into FIA TMFC, grandad was keen as ever
and giving us some ideas we had not thought of too, showed him photos on the 2003 Firebird
body that we have bought too. We have actually raced a funny car before in the late 90's but
sadly the body was lost in a workshop fire years ago. It was a 1989 Chevy Beretta, had such a
nice shape for a car of that era too. If I remember rightly we raced it in the Supercharged Outlaws
and in Super Pro ET, running a best of only 7.33 at about 176mph (we ran the engine very soft
then due to lack of £££).

We also bought a few parts while we were up there too, we have made a start on the fitting of the funny car body, which will require lots of fabrication to the rear of the chassis, on the A frame, but this is easy enough to build just requires patience and lots of on/off lifting of the body. Below are a couple of photos to show what it will look like.

Thanks for reading.