The MoPar EuroNats '08 • 3 • The Dodge Challenger Message Board

by **fbernard** » 29 Jul 2008 14:11

dave-r wrote:I hardly saw any of the track action myself. I spent most of the three days walking around and talking to people. I am so tired right now. I think i will have to have a nap after lunch.

Same for me! I spent most of my time taking care of a friend who was racing at Pod for the first time. Bringing water when he was waiting for hours in the sun, picking up timeslips, working on the car, steering him to the burnout area, and pedalling (or walking) back to the camp fro more tinkering...

Hectic week-end!
It started real bad : when we all met on Thursday, a couple of hours before leaving, my friend called to say he had broken his engine (zero oil pressure) and was waiting for us to trailer him to the workshop. He was so depressed he didn't even want to lift the hood, and it took most of the afternoon to convince him to let us look at the car. It turned out it was the oil pump driveshaft (pretty common failure), which we replaced with the old one from his previous engine.

The rest of the week-end was great : my friend's car went from 13.6' on street tires on a good French track, to 12.5' with slicks on the best track in Europe... All that with no noise, a manual transmission, and good road manners. I hope to do as well next year with my car.

It was pretty neat to find the French Connection logo on the event T-shirt for our 10th birthday !

A lot of cars we usually see were missing, but there was even more new cars, so it was a great year.

It will take a couple of days to feel awake again. :sleepy:

by **fal308** » 30 Jul 2008 13:14

You guys have some VERY nice cars over there. I especially liked the blown purple '67 Coronet and "Slime Lime" Cuda and the black '68 Charger with its kicka$$ stance and...and...and everything :thumbsup:

by **dave-r** » 30 Jul 2008 13:56

Notice we welcome all makes to the event too. It maybe hosted by Mopars but we love all muscle cars.

The track was open 1pm to 6pm Friday I think, 10am to 9pm Saturday and 10am to 5pm Sunday. At times the que in the fire-up road was the full length of the track.

The track organisers need to speed up how many cars run per minute though. There was far too much track down time due to various reasons. It meant some people were waiting up to 90 mins to get a run.

by **dave-r** » 30 Jul 2008 18:18

Youtube link.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2GW40gVTPGE

Mainly people though.

by **dave-r** » 30 Jul 2008 22:06

And again.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mbjBCEYtNEY

by **dave-r** » 31 Jul 2008 16:56

Some great photos here.

http://www.grantgb.com/moparnationals2008.htm

by **dave-r** » 02 Aug 2008 8:28

OK here is the one I have been waiting for.

Adam Ford's photos from The EuroNats.

http://s193.photobucket.com/albums/z313 ... ts%202008/

by **Eddie** » 02 Aug 2008 15:39

Excellent photos from all. I really like Grants style. It makes you feel as if you are there. :thumbsup:

by **david340** » 03 Aug 2008 17:00

its an awfull pitty i didnt get to meet you dave and i was standing right next to you in the marque at one stage theres allways the next time :thumbsup:

by **drewcrane** » 03 Aug 2008 17:18

dave how many cars do you estimate show up?

by **dave-r** » 03 Aug 2008 18:19

drewcrane wrote:dave how many cars do you estimate show up?

No idea mate. It is spread out so much and mixed on the campsite with daily drivers, mobile homes, trailers, and tents. Must be a few hundred muscle cars. Maybe 500? Nothing like as big as the US events as you would expect but not bad. Over 100 signed up each day to go on the track I think. Maybe more.

About 2000 American vehicles of one sort or another attend one or two of the really big static shows in the UK but they are mostly crap everyday types of US made cars, trucks and vans. Not much muscle.

by **drewcrane** » 03 Aug 2008 20:30

even 300 or so is a good number, from the pics it all looks pretty nice, as far as the mix, and quality of the cars,and alot of custom work! :thumbsup:

by **drewcrane** » 04 Aug 2008 1:28

i also noticed that there were 2 amx,s i think 70,s they only built less than 19,000 of those cars , of the 2 seater version,from 68 to 70, then they changed to a 4 seater in 71, those are rare cars in there own respect! :nod:

by **dave-r** » 04 Aug 2008 8:10

MOPAREURONATS JUDGING/WINNERS 2008

BEST IN SHOW 1971 Plymouth Hemicuda Convertible Tribute, Jess Neilson, reg JES111

RUNNER UP 1969 Dodge Coronet R/T Matt Snowball, reg CBY427G

Hurricane Imports MOST ORIGINAL MOPAR- ALAN LETTS, 1970 GTX EGC 516H

Hurricane Imports BEST EURO MOPAR -1970 PLYMOUTH SPORT FURY, CARSTEN WOITENEK, GERMANY

Hurricane Imports BEST PAINT -1968 DODGE SUPER BEE, SIMON AND LISA ROGERS, reg 68 BEE

Hurricane Imports BEST RESTIFIED MOPAR MARIO- MUZZ SCHIFANO, 1968 DODGE CHARGER reg 68 RT

BEST CHALLENGER - ROYDON MITCHELL, 1972 DODGE CHALLENGER RALLYE reg PGC 718K

WINGED WARRIOR TROPHY- 1968 PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER, RICHARD BREZINSKI ,reg PUD 103F

LONG DISTANCE AWARD- 1970 DODGE CHALLENGER R/T, WAYNE BYRNE, DUBLIN, IRELAND

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE- MATT HOLLINGSWORTH

THE ACE CAFÉ PARTICIPANTS CHOICE- 1965 PLYMOUTH SATELLITE GEORGE CHILES, reg PNW 341C

CLASSIC AMERICAN HEAT WINNER - JESS NEILSON 1971 Hemicuda vert

ULTIMATE EURO MOPAR - MARK BAILY, 68 PLYMOUTH BARRACUDA

BURNOUT CONTEST ...... SPLIT DESCISION SCOTT CARTER/ LEE CHILES

MMA AWARD- MATT AND MANDY HOLLINGSWORTH

THE TOP TEN

1. 1972 PLYMOUTH CUDA, BILLY CREGGY

2. 1971 PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER, GUY WHITWHAM

3. 1970 PLYMOUTH DUSTER, GRAHAM HOWARD

4.1969 PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER, RICHARD GRANGER

5.1970 DODGE CHALLENGER R/T, MARK SMITH

6. 1965 PLYMOUTH SATELLITE, CHRIS HEWITT

7.1968 DODGE CHARGER, MARTIN HOUGH

8. 1976 CHEVROLET LAGUANA, MR GOODHALL

9.1971 CHEVROLET CHEVELLE, RICK BONNICI

10.1971 FORD TORINO GT VINCENT, Mc DERMOTT

RACE WINNERS

UNLIMITED KOS - BRIAN JONES, CRITICAL CUDA 9.317 sec

KOS CLIFF TURNER - DODGE DART SWINGER 10.042 sec

ORIGINAL KOS- BOB BROWN, DODGE DAYTONA 11.714 sec

SAMS-ASHLEY RAWSON, G.T.X. 12.798 sec

FASTEST MOPAR- MICK PAYNE, 66 CORONET 7.900 sec @ 174.39 mph

POWER TOUR ROUND WINNER, 3rd heat- ANDREW MURTON CAMARO 9.6 sec average

MMA RACING AWARDS
Paul Worrow memorial Nostalgia Pro Stock- RICK DENNY, PONTIAC FIREBIRD 11.43 sec

CLASH OF THE A BODIES

Big Block- MARK BAILEY 9.54 sec

Small Block- JONATHON CONOLLY 12.38 sec

by **RedRaven** » 04 Aug 2008 10:52

See you got my name right Dave!!! :thumbsup:

by **dave-r** » 04 Aug 2008 11:03

Didn't notice until you noticed Wayne. :wink:

by **drewcrane** » 04 Aug 2008 11:39

sweet so you did get the long distance award wayne congratulations!

by **dave-r** » 04 Aug 2008 11:41

I think it was more to do with the time he took rather than the distance involved. :lol:

by **dave-r** » 04 Aug 2008 11:47

Thinking about it. If you include the ferry distance he still only travelled about 70 miles futher than me!
Only I was 12 hours faster. :mrgreen:

by **Eddie** » 04 Aug 2008 14:48

Congrats Wayne! You should also recieve an award for most persisitent and good attitutude! I would have 'cashed it in' and been under the car with bloody knuckles and fangs bared the entire time :lol:

Mick Payne's 7.9 is :shock:

Normally aspirated, Nox? Blown? Over here they allow Nox I think? I'm not very knowledgeable about the drag classes, but that seems very quick!

by **dave-r** » 04 Aug 2008 15:16

Blown alky burning Hemi if it is the one I am thinking of Eddie.

by **Eddie** » 04 Aug 2008 15:38

Pretty damned impressive!! :thumbsup:

by **RedRaven** » 04 Aug 2008 18:14

drewcrane wrote:sweet so you did get the long distance award wayne congratulations!

Yep....I think they gave it to me for brute force and pig ignorance.....and for not giving up to get there!!!! :thumbsup:

Hell or high water or the Nats!!! :biggrin:

by **RedRaven** » 04 Aug 2008 18:17

[quote="airfuelEddie"]Congrats Wayne! You should also recieve an award for most persisitent and good attitutude! I would have 'cashed it in' and been under the car with bloody knuckles and fangs bared the entire time :lol:

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Thanks dude!! :thumbsup:

If you look at the photo of me and the bint you will see the raw knuckles from working on the car with hot exhaust manifolds etc!!!

Doubt it I could have made it home if it wasnt for the Gaffer!! :wink2:

by **Eddie** » 04 Aug 2008 18:30

I saw that Wayne. You looked tired but very happy. I would have felt 'comfy' if Dave was there too, especially with that hairpiece on and a wrench in one hand and a stout Ale in the other. No Joke! :thumbsup: