Bloomsburg, PA PENDA

[dave3ba]

Date:

Track: Outdoors, a set of 3 cars with a 2-car gap, and a set of 6 cars with another 2-car gap. Finish line is 100 ft. past the last car.

Lineup: Andy Brass (Bigfoot VIII), Steve Hess (Nitemare III), Colt Cobra (Snake Bite), John Moore (No Problem II), Wayne Smozanek (Night Life II), Jack Wilman Sr. (Taurus IV), Gary Porter (Carolina Crusher III), Jon Breen (Micro Machines), Jack Brady (Kimosabe), Mike Vaters (Black Stallion II), Scott Stephens (King Krunch III), Pat Summa (Above & Beyond)

Results:

Round 1:
Brass def. Hess
Cobra def. Moore
Wilman Sr. def. Smozanek
Porter def. Breen
Vaters def. Brady
Stephens def. Summa
-Vaters flips Black Stallion

Quarterfinals:
Wilman Sr. def. Porter
Brass def. Cobra
Stephens bye
-Wilman breaks tire

Semifinals:
Porter (fast loser) def. Stephens
Brass def. Cobra (2nd fast loser)

Finals:
Brass def. Porter

Notes: This was the first event PENDA tried moving the finish line past the last car, which was not a popular move with the drivers. John Moore's No Problem went dead in its first round race with Snake Bite. This was the first PENDA event for Jack Willman's Taurus. Jack Brady's Kimosabe had a rough ride in qualifying, breaking the rear cellinoid. When Mike Vaters rolled Black Stallion, it was the oldest truck in the race. This was the same truck that did exhibition runs for the USHRA in the late 80's. During the same race, Kimosabe nearly rolled as well. Willman blew out the right front tire in his race with Gary Porter's Carolina Crusher.

[steven]

Wasn't Bear Foot there too, because Scott Stephens flipped King Krunch during a battle with Shafer in Bloomsburg one year, and I think it was '91.

[Tim Smith]

It was, but I believe that that was a different day.

[twiztid18]

i thought that was black stallion 1 because of the chassise

[dave3ba]

Technically I suppose you could call it the original Black Stallion. I refer to it as Black Stallion II for a couple reasons. First, when Mike Vaters first started showing Black Stallion it was a 1979 Ford, not a 1988. Second, by the time 1991 rolled around, so many updates were done to that truck to make it somewhat competitive, it barely resembled the original 1979 truck that he had.