(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Third and final article from this event.  This gallery is full of wrinkled tires, red lights, and wheelies big and small.  I have a thing I like to call POW – proof of wheelie.  Doesn’t matter if you could barely slide a note card between the track and the tire…..its a wheelie.  Now some of these do not need the image magnified to rank their image as a solid POW.  Brian Figg’s Dirty Bird Falcon hikes them up on ever pass.

Bruce Sturdivant was carrying them high and far on this day with absolutely wreckless abandon in attempts to put on a show.  Mission accomplished.  Chris Hul might not put on the biggest burnout show, but he carried the skinnies past the center divider on nearly every pass.  I’ve got a really good sequence of photos showing one of them.  Jim Baker was getting in on it too with the Krazy Horse Mustang.  Randy Gore Sr. can always be counted on for at least one wheelie-bar-bending shot for the sky in his alcohol-injected SBC-powered ’57 Chevy.  There is usually one banzai pass and he did not disappoint the onlookers.

Lanny Wead in the Toxic Falcon can carry them with the best and managed several launches breaking the sixty-foot beams with the back tires.  Dwight McGuire was on a mission with his real-deal Steel Lady Nash.  It is under-powered and one of the slowest cars of the group.  Dwight really wanted to get some good wheelies to show previous owners of the car and honor some others’ memory.  He aired down the slicks and let her rip.  He was ragging on that old thing so hard I even captured it lifting the left-front on the 1-2 shift.  He reached his goals and one of these photos show a very healthy wheelie it carried for at least ten feet.  Pretty cool if you ask me.

I did not catch the guy’s name who owns this primer-gray disco Camaro, but that thing was putting on an air show with the best of them.  With a funky piece of PVC elbow poking out of the hood it must have been getting some of that cool, fall air and setting sail.  Everyone seemed to have a good time and we saw a really good show.  If you are ever in the mood to check out a historical track in Kentucky, you can’t go wrong with this one.

Enjoy.