Buick GN VS. Mustang 5.0 shootout at Englishtown raceway park this weekend.

[Eric Fischer <EricFischer@compuserve.com>]

>I was at the Englishtown raceway park this weekend in New Jersey for the
>Annual Buick Grand National versus the mustang 5.0's where i saw some
>interesting things.  besides seeing enough GN's and 5.0's for a while, i
>saw a couple of ty's and one sy.  The only sy i saw was one which was
being
>raced by a gentleman and his wife (i forget thier names).  He was running
>in the street eliminator for the heck of it, and he ran an 11.7 but i
can't
>recall the MPH.  When i spoke to him in the pits he said that he wasn't on
>the list, but soon will be.  hope to hear from him soon. he is the second
>owner but the first owner is a good friend of his whom he gets together
>frequently with to work on the vehicle.  The only other interesting item
>was a pseudo Ty from New York.  It was a vin from an '85 Chevy Blazer (the
>inspection stickers on NY vehicles list the model and year openly),
>however, the appearance of the vehicle was identical.  My only hypothesis
>is that he had a ty and blazer salvage title and pieced it all together!
>Kind of a sacrelige, blasphemy I say, blasphemy!!  There had to have been
>others from this list at the event, was anyone else there??

>Jon Futey

Yeah,

I was there.  I didn't have my truck with me though, since it is STILL not
running right.  The Mustangs romped all over the GN's again!  Not even Jim
D'Alessandro, who had the quickest qualifying time of the day could save
the day.  In fact, he crashed at about 1/3 track, doing severe damage to
his front end.

All in all, it was a good show!

EricFischer@compuserve.com