Tuesday 10th June: Sadness and joy

Nearly a month since I last updated the blog and its been a nice month off to be honest. Sadly we had the unexpected death of my Nan to deal with and then the funeral was 3 days before the wedding. We all went and paid our respects and it was a hard day. Few days later completely different day, total opposite emotion, and I think perfect timing for all involved as we all really needed a good knees up.

The wedding was superb, couldn’t of been better and I wouldn’t change a thing. We were married on the 16th of May and lucky for us the weather held out so we were chuffed.

As you can see from the photo above, the Bennett’s don’t scrub up too badly!

Also below is our stunning wedding car, a 1950 Cadillac Fleetwood, what a motor, sheer size of the thing, Lisa loved it.

We then had a couple of days in a Spa and then we were off to Cyprus for our honeymoon, we stayed in our own villa and we cannot recommend Cyprus enough, I had been before but it was Lisa’s first time, we really didn’t want to come home.

Back to the racing, we were gutted not to be able to attend the Main event and glad it all went ok for the NFAA racers that went, especially to the Wrattens, well done. Shame there not going to be at the Summer Nationals so we can give them a race. After missing the Springspeed and the Main event we are all desperate to race again and really looking forward to this event, the plan is to carry on where we left of at the Easter Thunderball, as you will have read we ran a 6.63 at only 181mph, as my old man was off it early with chutes out as it was only our 2nd proper full power pass.

What I have in mind if all goes well is to come away with a 6.2 ET we know the car has the power to run these numbers we just need a few runs to get them.
Other than that all is well here, I have now decided that I am going to build a blown motor for the Devils Advocate Bantam now too, again it will be a 511 cubic inch big block Chevy, but we will run very gently to start with. The plan is for 7.50’s for now.

As for my brothers slingshot we have got our hands on a Nissan Skyline turbo which we are going to fit to the current Pinto motor. This will make is capable of 10’s and will be a good engineering project for us all.