Omaha, NE USHRA

[dave3ba]

Date:

Track: Indoors, a short straight stretch, a 180 degree left turn, a set of 4 cars, a 180 degree left turn and a short straight stretch. Finish line is the starting line.

Lineup: Barry Packard (Lil' Bear Foot), Gary Bauer (Lon Ranger), Cliff Starbird (Frankenstein), Ray Piorkowski (Big Tow), Cliff Starbird (Monster Vette), Dave Wieczorek (Night Life)

Results:

Round 1:
Packard 30.54
Bauer 35.74
Frankenstein 37.27
Piorkowski 36.86
Monster Vette 24.37
Wieczorek 24.67

Round 2:
Monster Vette bye
Bauer 35.29
Frankenstein inc.
Packard 29.04
Piorkowski inc.
Wieczorek 21.98

Finals:
Monster Vette 21.34
Wieczorek 24.69

Mud Bog:
Bauer 8.77
Packard 9.14

Notes: This was the first USHRA event for Ray Piorkowski's Big Tow and Dave Wieczorek's Night Life. Piorkowski was the first to use a fully functional tow truck as a base for his monster. A year later he would modify the truck and rename it as Evil Force. Wieczorek would roll the original Night Life in another 6 months and rebuild it as the famous Night Life II. Gary Bauer had recently put a new engine in Lon Ranger, then promptly takes the truck for a mud run, surprisingly not blowing the engine.

[zacprochera]

It had to be 1988, because Larry Huffman and Margo King were doing the commentary.

[Tim Dudley]

No it was Late 1987...Barry baught Lil Bearfoot after summer of 1987. I have this show on VHS the only VHS Tape I have out of tons I use to have but in the move the movers lost 95% of my videos.

All I have left is one 8 hour tape. LOL It has this show on it. Also had Night Life. Margo and Larry started in Fall of 1987. I believe they where on either Friday or Sunday Night can't remember but Mike Gallway was always Saturday Night...Might have been Saturday Afternoon I don't remember.

Your friend,

Tim Dudley