Author:
Abel Sniper
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Date Posted: 10:35:53 04/22/09 Wed
>When it
>is not one thing, it is another. I recently had Time
>Warner add a phone line at my house. We haven't had a
>house phone in about 10 years. But, since my wife's
>office is at home. She needed a land line. Anyway,
>long story short. It somehow screwed up my internet
>connection royaly. My upload speeds are terrible. I am
>able to upload three files at a time before my FTP
>shuts down and kicks me off. A technician is supposed
>to come over tomorrow to fix the issues. We should be
>back to normal then.
>
>Oh, and speaking of things going wrong. I almost made
>you all and my own kids orphans on Friday. When I got
>home from work around 6pm, my kids had our 2000 Trans
>Am up in the air, trying to install a new set of
>headers. I climbed under the car to make sure the
>jackstands were aligned properly. Just as my son was
>lowering the car on to jackstands the jackstand on my
>side gave out and the car landed on top of me. I was
>laying on my right side, so it jammed my left arm into
>my ribcage. I passed out for a bit, I guess from the
>pressure of the car landing on top of me.
>
>Within seconds, one of my sons was on the right
>fender, my other boy was on the left fender and my
>other son (Thank God for having three sons huh?) was
>pumping the floor jack back up as fast as he could.
>All the while, my wife was pulling on my legs trying
>to get me out from under the car. Got to give her
>kudos for her efforts. I am 6ft 2in and all of 350lbs.
>There was no way she was going to pull me out..LOL!
>Anyway, as soon as the pressure let off, I took a huge
>inhale and I came back to. You know how they say that
>you see your whole life flash in front of you before
>you die? Naw, didn't happen. But I will say,
>everything got real quiet and really peaceful. Didn't
>feel nothing really. Well, that was then. Right now,
>my arm is killing me and I might have to go for some
>X-Ray's cause I got a rib that is bothering me.
>
>Despite all that, we still made it out to the races on
>Friday night. Talk about die hard huh?...LOL! My wife
>wanted me to go to the hospital. And I was like,
>uh..no way. The guy's are racing tonight. We have to
>be there for them. So off we went to the races. Just
>as I expected, everyone put on an awesome show. Yeah,
>it's not headsup racing. But it is just as exciting to
>me. The Super-Gas class was full of both street cars
>and bracket cars. For the second time in the race
>series this year, a bracket car took the win. Congrats
>to Sugar Ray Brown for taking the win. And congrats to
>his son in law, Ed Galbraith for taking the runner up
>spot. Awesome racing guy's. Honorable mention goes to
>Joel Cura for giving them all headaches in his bad ass
>turbo charged street stang.
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>src="http://www.texasdragracing.com/races/2009/4-17/Pic
>s/Super-Gas-Win.jpg">
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>src="http://www.texasdragracing.com/races/2009/4-17/Pic
>s/Super-Gas-RunnerUp.jpg">
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>In Pro-Gas, The Cameron County crew gave it a strong
>fight. But Henry Thome, Ruben Ybarra and the Hernandez
>Brothers were all knocked out early in the race.
>Leaving only one Cameron County team car, The Ghost,
>owned by Tommy Hearn, driven by Ed Galbraith, in the
>hunt for the finals. A strong effort and awesome
>driving got them there against non other than the
>Espericueta Crew and their killer small block powered
>Vega Wagon. Piloted by Ray Espericueta, the wagon put
>on an awesome show with what seemed like 15,000 RPM
>burnouts and some nasty launches. In the final, it
>would be Espericuata Racing going home with the win
>when The Ghost flooded over and shut off after the
>burnout. Who will take the win next month and take the
>points lead? We will find out next month.
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>src="http://www.texasdragracing.com/races/2009/4-17/Pic
>s/Pro-Gas-Win.jpg">
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>src="http://www.texasdragracing.com/races/2009/4-17/Pic
>s/Pro-Gas-RunnerUp.jpg">
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>Here are the pics of the other race from Friday night,
>the 1/4 Mile Clash. Congrats to Abel on his runner up
>win. Just know that the red Firebird you went up
>against is a muliple national event winner. That red
>Bird is no joke. It is serious about it's game and it
>has a trunk full of Wally's to prove it. I will be
>back with more pictures and video of all the racing
>action later. Hopefully tomorrow night after our web
>connections is repaired. So stay tuned for more action.
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>src="http://www.texasdragracing.com/races/2009/4-17/Pic
>s/QrtrMileClash-Win.jpg">
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>src="http://www.texasdragracing.com/races/2009/4-17/Pic
>s/QrtrMileClash-RunnerUp.jpg">
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>OOPS! Forgot to mention one other race from Friday.
>They also run what is called a QUICK class. Which is
>made up of cars that are capable of running faster
>than 5.00's or something like that. In that class,
>Albert Rodriguez took the win in his dragster.
>Unfortunately, he didn't bring the car up. But that
>didn't stop Albert from hamming it up for the camera.
>We got a pic of him and his golfcart. Don't know who
>got second place cause they did not show up for their
>picture. Sorry....
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>src="http://www.texasdragracing.com/races/2009/4-17/Pic
>s/Quick-Win.jpg">
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