Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
From Your Friends at The Prince Rupert Auto Club
Belching smoke and flames Kevin Therres and his Bio-diesel Pickup at the 2009 “Hot August Nites”
Photo Ed Evans
By Ed Evans
The Northern View
July 27,2011
Get ready for the Drag racing event of the Season at the Terrace Regional Airport this weekend, as Hot August Nites, part of the Terrace Riverboat Day’s weekend, burns up the track Sunday July 31st and Monday August 1st.
The Terrace Drag Racing Association always brings in fast cars for this event and this year is no exception. Kevin Therres and his team at Prairieland Motorsports in Humboldt Saskatchewan will heat up the track with not one but two Jet funny cars. You might remember Therres first visit to the Terrace track in 2009, He brought his new Pickup Jet truck and made some blistering passes down the track, 4,463 seconds at 182.93 MPH. Super fast, but not quite fast enough to break the track record of 4.08 seconds set by Gary Ormesby Jr. in a top alcohol rail in 2007. Therres’s new Pickup was destroyed two weekends later in a spectacular crash in Calgary.
That track record might fall this weekend however, as an engine from a F5 fighter jet from the Canadian Forces was installed in the new car. Now, after a year of building, the 2006 Mustang Jet Funny car, Prairieland Motorsports has set its sights on going faster and quicker than ever before. They estimate this car will be able to go 270 mph in 5.9 seconds in a quarter-mile, which is 15 to 16 miles per hour faster than their other cars.
Also included this weekend is the MacCarthy Motors “Quick 8”, which will feature the fastest 8 cars as they race down the Terrace 1/8 mile track.
Don’t miss the Jet cars at the airport as they belch smoke and flame. The Bio-diesel powered jet vehicles will make your heart stop with every throttle pop. Time Trials start at 10 am, with eliminations both days starting after the lunch break.
So this is a great weekend for motor heads as the Skeena Valley Cruizers hold their annual Show and Shine from Noon to 4pm Saturday at the Terrace arena. Besides all of the beautiful cars there will be valve cover races for the kids.
For more information check out the websites: www.terracedrags.ca , www.skeenavalleycruizers.com , or www.prautoclub.com.
OK Guys,
Here’s some dates for the 2011 season that
we wanted to throw out at you for some feedback!
May 28/29
June 25/26
July 31/ Aug 1 (Hot Aug Nites)
Aug 27/28 (Bike Wars)
Sept 3/4 (Rain Out)
Thanks
Chris
We are experiencing download problems photo’s should be up tomorrow
Subject:: Driving in the rain . .This may save your life
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GOOD VISION IN
A
DOWNPOUR
How to achieve good vision while driving during a heavy
downpour.
We are not sure why it
is so effective; just
try this method when it rains
heavily.
This method was told by a Police
friend who had experienced and confirmed it.
It is useful…even
driving at night.
Most of the motorists would turn on HIGH or FASTEST SPEED
of the wipers during heavy downpour, yet the visibility in
front of the
windshield is still bad……
In the event you face such a situation,
just try your SUN GLASSES (any model will do), and miracle!
All of a sudden,
your visibility in front of your
windshield is perfectly clear, as if
there is no rain.
Make sure you always
have a pair of SUN GLASSES
in your car, as you are not only helping yourself to drive
safely with good
vision, but also might save your friend’s life by
giving him this
idea..
Try it yourself and share it with your friends!???
Amazing,
you still see
the drops on the windshield, but not the sheet of rain
falling.?
You can see where the rain bounces off the road.? It
works to eliminate the “blindness” from passing
semi’s spraying you
too.?
Or the “kickup” if you are following a semi or
car in the rain.?
They ought to teach that little tip in driver’s
training.. It really does work.
This warning is a good one!
I wonder how many people know about this
~
A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks ago and
totaled her car.
A resident of Kilgore , Texas she was traveling
between
Gladewater & Kilgore. It was raining, though not
excessively, when her car
suddenly began to hydro-plane and literally flew through
the air. She was
not seriously injured but very stunned at the sudden
occurrence!
When she explained to the highway patrolman what had happened he
told her something that every driver should know – NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH
YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON. She thought she was being cautious by
setting the cruise control and maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain..
But the highway patrolman told her that if the cruise control is on when
your car begins to hydro-plane and your tires lose contact with the pavement,
your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed making you take off
like an airplane. She told the patrolman that was exactly what had occurred.
The patrolman said this warning should be listed, on the driver’s seat
sun-visor – NEVER USETHE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN
THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY, along
with the airbag
warning. We tell our teenagers to set the cruise control
and drive a safe speed – but we don’t tell them to use the cruise
control only when the pavement is dry.
The only person the accident victim found, who knew this
(besides the patrolman), was a man who had a similar accident, totaled
his car and sustained severe injuries.
NOTE: Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna
Limited XLE) will not allow you to set the cruise control
when the windshield wipers are on. If you send this to 15 people and only one
of them doesn’t know about this, then it was all worth it.
You might have saved a life.
Nice burnout !
All quick 8 photo’s copyright Ed Evans
Carving the pig
All quick 8 photo’s copyright Ed Evans
That explains Dougs one wheel launches… the tape came off !
All quick 8 photo’s copyright Ed Evans
Somebody tell Suki that Mecca is facing the other way
All quick 8 photo’s copyright Ed Evans
Prince Rupert Auto Club’s 1999 Sea Level Drags
Submitted photo
A Bevy of Bentleys at the Crest Hotel in 2009
All quick 8 photo’s copyright Ed Evans
Racing a Lambo in Houston
All quick 8 photo’s copyright Ed Evans
Do you recognize the tailights and paint job on the Mustang at the 1977 Hill Climb?
It’s Norm Swenglers car!
All quick 8 photo’s copyright Ed Evans
More Quick 8 photo’s Every Weekend
Merry Christmas
From
The Prince Rupert Auto Club
After a two month hiatus the website is back up and operating. You will notice the site itself has changed, there is no forum but you can respond to the posts. If there is a demand for a forum let us know.
A Big Thank You goes out to Miguel Borges for getting the site running again and for hosting our site. Great Job Miguel ! It looks great.
There are many others to thank including Rob at Data Boy and Kieth at City West for all of your help.
We would also like to thank Ray Langelle for all of the work in setting up and running the site in the past. Thank you Ray!
Without all of your help we could not have this great site. Motorheads from around the Northwest Thank You.
Now, all we have to do is figure out the site . So bear with us, all of the newspaper column and photo’s will be added soon.
Ed Evans
Prince Rupert Auto Club
