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Originally Posted by Hugh R
If you've never been, you have absolutely no clue. As a "car person" you owe it to yourself to go once. If you went 20 or 30 years ago, you need to revisit, it's much more now than you can imagine.
Pomona is February 11-14, anyone up for going?
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I went in 1998 (IIRC), when Joe Amato set the national record at 4.52, at something over 320mph! That was the day that got me back into it. I go to both Top Fuel events at the LVMS, as well as sportsman races in support of my buddy's '62 Nova, (consistent 10.25's).
I also remember that event in Pamona because there was a little Cessna 152 or 172 flying across the track on it's way to the airport, and just as it crossed the track, a funny car body came off and flew up in the air. The poor little plane was going no more than 60 or 70MPH, and here's this car body flying up at him, with the car chassis below on fire. He mashed the throttle and pulled up on the yolk, but it' didn't make hardly any difference other than to get a laugh out of the crowd and the announcers. He was several hundred feet above the track, and the car body was likely no more that 20 or so feet off of the ground, but it sure got his attention.
