Bill and I met recently at Wild Horse Pass Raceway Park to discuss this column. It is obvious that we have both ‘matured’ a bit since our hard core racing days. Bill remains active in Arizona drag racing with his highly attended Arizona Drag Racers Reunion!

Unfortunately, due to health considerations, I was not able to attend the 2016 edition held this year at Baer Brakes in Phoenix. However several hundred long time Arizona drag racers and fans did.

This lavender Dodge Dart is all too familiar since Eddie Pauling was constructing it during the mid-sixties when we were assisting Mel Larson with operation of Arizona Raceway. (Known as Speed World during its final years) The car was fired up in a ‘cacklefest’ behind Baer Brakes during the Reunion.