at irwindale tonite and there's this supercharged challenger there everyone oogling over, well as i'am kinda walking around who do i run into, jim bell, he's there to help out with the challenger (has one of his superchargers on it)ou: well just so happens they pull us out of staging together and guess what???....a$$ whopping from the buick,while jim watched.. bare in mind my car is streel legal and only has about 2/3rd throttle:ball: (it's set up for the local bracket class)ou: i run a 8.01 and he runs 8.30:Smarty: granted he was having some traction problems but he was on a drag radial:ball: and once we where going he was'nt gaining on me:moonu:..now i've known jim for along time so i had give him cra&& about it
Hi Chris, Congratulations on the win! Was the Chryco a newer model? Jim probably enjoyed watching you race the Challenger, but might have thought the result wouldn't make very good press in promoting his products. Nando.
Yea, I bet he had some mixed emotions on the outside, but inside I am sure he was all smiles! Nice kill. John.:TU:
it was new, still had the dealer plates on it from vegas, i dont know much about them it was srt 8 i think, orange with black stripes, they where icing down the supercharger and it also had some kind of metal tank under the hood they where puttin ice in.
Nice job Chris. Its good to hear ol' Jim Bell is still involved in motorsports... even if its entirely not Buick related. Wonder why he's abandoned the marque that made him "famous"? My buddy has a '08 Mustang Bullitt with a factory Ford Whipple supercharger and intercooler. Last month in Phoenix at the races there were three regular GT's with Jim's superchargers mounted on top. The best they could muster was mid 13's at 106 mph and were questioning the Bullitts performance of 12 teens at 114 mph. Seems like the Ford perf. division has their supercharger kit dialed in pretty well whereas Jim's kits have a long way to go. And the Challengers perf. numbers seem to reflect that same idea. Too bad :bla: Did he come up and recognize your car and your efforts? Reason I ask is when I was driving the old KB Reynolds car at Bowling Green many years ago, he was standing in the staging lanes as I was waiting to race. I had the window down and tried to strike up a conversation with him. He was disinterested in the car and made a few smart remarks about it. Maybe he was miffed that we had it running quicker than he ever had it running o No:
he still likes the buick, as i was talking to him he zero'ed right in on a 69 lark that was way back in the staging lanes
