St. Paul, MN TNT Day 3

[fantruck3]

Track: Indoors, a set of 5 cars and a set of 10 cars. Finish line is in between the 9th and 10th cars.

Lineup: Dennis Anderson (Grave Digger II), Andy Brass (Bigfoot IV), Dave Wieczorek (Night Life II), Steve Dane (Awesome Kong IV), Doug Spanier (Master of Disaster II), Mike Gretsch (Bearly Tame), Rod Litzau (USA-1 II), Jeff Zimmerman (Mad Man II), Al Spencer (Gentle Ben), Mark Wheeler (Terraduster), Bill Jones (Rebel's Revenge), Steve Combs (Knight Stalker)

Results

Round 1

Litzau bye
Wieczorek over Jones
Brass over Combs
Dane over Spanier
Gretsch over Wheeler
Zimmerman over Spencer

Quater-Finals
Litzau over Wheeler (fast loser)
Brass over Spanier (fast loser)
Dane over Wieczorek
Gretsch over Zimmerman

Semi-Finals
Litzau over Dane
Brass over Gretsch

Finals
Litzau over Brass

Notes: This is my first post and I hope to help build this database. I never knew there was a 3rd St. Paul event until I found the Power Trax broadcast on a random tape in the last week.

[tntmaniac]

That show was the debute of Grave Digger 2. It was running an aluminum rodeck mototor with a set of solid billet bac man heads and a 1271 bds supercharger with a barn door injection set up. It produced18 to 2000 HP. It came off a famus modified pulling tractor Bruce H

[tntmaniac]

to finish my last post about grave digger 2 I hit post reply by mistake.The motor came off A multi engine modified pulling tractor of bruce huchison of patriot indiana. Bruce was retiring from pulling and parted out the tractor and dennis anderson bought one of those rodeck motors for GD 2. Later that year after the houston race TNT outlawed that motor and dennis went with a blown cast iron chevy big block with a 871 blower, with a bird catcher injection set up. The first race for the new motor was at the chicago event.

[dave3ba]

This event took place on January 7th, 1989.