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TOM McCARTHY On the weekend of September, 2-4, 2016, many of the New England X-275 racers and their associated cohorts invaded the 7th annual Yellow Bullet Nationals at Cecil County Dragway in Rising Sun, Maryland. The New England contingent made a strong showing and had a palpable impact on the racers and racing at the event.
strive to put on a good drag race where these guys can push their cars to the limit and the fans get what they came here for.” He partners with Cecil County Dragway to put on the event and with close to 570 cars in 2015 and slightly fewer by design this year, both the track and Monty are refining their event with a measure of success.
Peter Dayotas of Mass, qualified #1 in the 8.50 index class, Robert Baptista was qualified 5th in X-275 and several of the New England racers, like Jesse Cammarata ran their personal best numbers. They all did New England drag racing proud they did. The event itself was quite the monster Yellow Bullet was expected to be.
Monty commented “We had two less classes this year intentionally to reduce our car count. Last year we were running close to midnight and later every night of competition and that’s too much on the local residents and the police force, so we needed to cut back a bit.” The plan worked out perfectly with qualifying on Friday and Saturday, completed just after 11pm.
It was loud and proud, featured tons of cool cars, close to 500 of Torrey Browne, who has headed up the New En- What is Yellow Bullet? gland X-275 program for the last two seasons was In his own words, the them, had thousands of happy at the Yellow Bullet Nationals with his car and his creator of the Yellow fans who can’t wait for next class mates. Bullet Message Board year’s event. The event featured Forum, Monty Mikho has stated “Yellowbullet. excellent side-by-side drag racing for better than com is a massive internet community hosting 12 hours a day, for three days straight. A total just under 95,000 members. It contains over success on all accounts. 750,000 threads, over 18 million posts, and it’s still growing. The site has been live on the internet for “This was Yellow Bullet # 7” commented Monty over ten years and it continues to grow. Our main Mikho, the man in charge of Yellow Bullet. “We 6| Motorhead Magazine - October 2016
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focus is to promote the sport, foster its growth and help racers move forward.” There’s one more thing Yellow Bullet is famous for, the full title: “Yellow Bullet - where the weak are killed and eaten.” Yellow Bullet is an internet message board where trash talking is encouraged and bragging is art. Beware, the full title of the message board is truth in advertising. The weak ARE killed and eaten on Yellow Bullet and during their races. The meek may inherit the earth but they sure as hell better stay off Yellow Bullet and not attend their races. The race itself, The Yellow Bullet Nationals, was a joy to behold for old time drag racers who yearn for drag racing as it was in the 1970’s. The event is so not a typical NHRA type big event. It’s not all about the advertising, the Bingo Racing, Slam’n Soft Drink, Sticky Tires, Power Sports sponsored racing team. No; it’s about racers kicking ass with across the line burn outs, bumper scraping wheel stands and hours of excitement. There’s no waiting for TV to go live. No racing classes that are used just as fill time, then sent back to their pit areas because the sanction can’t have the lesser classes cluttering up the back drop for the television camera angles. Racers are not treated as advertising pawns at Yellow Bullet – they are treated like racers. Same holds true for the fans too. I watched a man at 7:06 AM on Friday morning
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Jon Sandahl of Hanson, MA, with help from Carl Lincoln had a good weekend at the YB Nationals and is ready to return for 2017.
set up his bleacher seat spot, on the splintered, weathered old board section, adjacent to the tower. His seat cushion tied to the boards and his umbrella attached to the chain link at the back of the top most row, he was good to go. On Saturday morning, just after 7am, he did it again, same spot. Considering racing both days did not start till after 9 AM, this is dedication personified. The fans attending the Yellow Bullet Nationals are a hard core drag racing bunch who live and breathe the tire smoke, scented with racing fuel you’ll only encounter at a drag race. As readers will notice in countless Yellow Bullet Nationals photographs on social media sites, the throngs of fans are just elbow to elbow
Jim Dayotas of Central Mass in his 8.50 car qualified #1 with his W/S MOPAR.
Angelo Tranquillo of CT was in the thick of it in qualifying.
everywhere. The thousands of fans who attended the race did all they could to get as close to the action as they could.
the Yellow Bullet Nationals. His driving and showmanship, like McCurdy’s is what keeps the fans coming back for more, year after year.
Racers responded by doing monster burn-outs frequently. Big smoky, I hate my rear tires, burn outs. Racer Kevin McCurdy of Hamburg, PA, took it a step further and was blazing the tires to the 200’ mark with his 526 cubic inch, blown, 1968 Camaro, Pro Mod.
Cecil County Dragway, in Rising Sun, Maryland, is not a state-of-the-art facility and it does not pretend to be. It’s a good old fashioned drag strip. You can get splinters in your buttocks from the bleacher seats, or buy a ¼ pound hot dog if you’re so inclined, but fans will not be told “time out for a television commercial break.” The Yellow Bullet Nationals is not some commercialized big show and thank the racing Gods for that. It’s an event where the racers can just be racers, the fans will get a bit out of hand and the weak are killed and eaten in competition.
Robert Baptista of Massachusetts racing in the X-275 class had a bumper scraping wheel stand during Q-3, kept his foot in it, and still pulled off a 5.19 @ 158 MPH. He ran his fastest (over 160 MPH) and quickest (4.51) runs ever during
The man in the T-R corner of this photo, with the red shirt and his arm in a sling is Monty Mikho, the man who heads up the Yellow Bullet Nationals.
Robert Baptista of MA, had this bumpah-scrapah during qualifying and still ran 158 MPH on the pass in the 1/8th mile. He carried this wheel stand out 100 + feet and kept his foot in it, didn’t hurt the car.
Mota Racing had their beautiful and powerful Mustang at the Yellow Bullet race, they’ll be back in 2017.
The “Blue Goose” of Mark Dykeman, a Massachuse�s racer, went rounds and will be in it to win it in 2017. New upgrades to the car are already in progress!
The “Wheel Chair Mafia” of New England X-275 fame was in the house at the Y.B. Nationals.
Jesse Cammarata of Willmington, MA had his wheels up for the Yellow Bullet Nationals at Cecil, County Dragway, in MD.
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No matter, the New England Dragway fans are some of the best in drag racing. Many of the fans who walked through the gates at 3 PM to see the big event were still in there at 11 PM when racing wrapped up for the day. They saw Bob Tasca III and Tim Wilkerson light up the New England night with header flames from their NHRA Funny Cars. They also witnessed the Hard Guy’s car, Bruce Larson’s USA-1 Camaro, The Boston Challenger, the Total Insanity, the War Path and other Funny Cars as well, pound out their 1320 song. Racing fans saw Pro Mods, Top Sportsman cars, Pro 7.0 and a full slate of sportsman cars, motorcycles and drag sleds from 9:30am till the end of
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Milt Schornack biography, “Milt Schornack and the Royal Bobcat GTOs” and continued writing; co-authoring the novel, “Woodward Avenue” with James Richards. As a writer at Vero’s Voice Magazine, Keith penned 6 cover stories in a row and used a column he wrote about Congressman Bill Posey’s ’66 Chevelle as leverage in talking his boss into letting him go on the air at WAXE with a classic car show.
American Car Classics what it is today. In January of 2014, the team moved to afternoon drive time radio, then expanded to two nights
Now host of American Car Classics, Keith invited Dean LaPierre on as a guest to talk about his 1965 Mustang 2+2 fastback. The two struck-up a friendship after that and Keith decided to make Dean his cohost.
While attending a local car show to benefit cancer-survivor, Dick Arbitelle, Keith invited Dick to come on the radio to talk about www.dentproscollision.com his automotive performance business.
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When most people think of cars, they think of them as merely a means of transportation. But to a Car Guy, or Gal, thinking of cars is more than that. It’s about a make, a model, a year, performance and power. Not just about getting from point A to point B and back again. It’s about doing it with an expression of oneself. This car is an expression of who I am. My passion is muscle cars. Especially GTO’s. Ever since I was a little boy growing up across the street from a Pontiac dealership in the state of Minnesota in the 1960’s I was a GTO Fanatic! I saw the new year model Pontiac GTO’s fill the parking lot and the showroom every year from 1965 through 1970. The year I moved to New England.
The GTO’s rear end will be a GM 12 bolt (Pontiac rear ends came factory with 10 bolts) with upgraded axles and center section. A set of 3.73 gears will be installed to compliment the O/D tranny. The rear end will be equipped with Yukon Alloy Axles with a 33 spline and an Eaton 33 spline posi. The rear end will be covered with an aluminum cover and girdle along with C-Clip Eliminators. This custom built drive train will allow the “OUTLAW” GTO to be street driven on the roadways across America (Unlike in my book) and turn upper 9’s and low 10’s consistently at the drag strip on race day. The “OUTLAW” GTO project build also has a body and accessories that will need some attention in the process.
I would draw them, pretend my bike was one and even helped the lot person at the dealership wash the new GTO’s during the summer months when I was out of school. Every kid’s dream right?
The GTO will feature a pro tour design chassis and suspension along with a four wheel disc brake assembly to make sure this beast stops on a dime and gives back change. With today’s gas prices even change helps fuel the tank sometimes. The chassis will be powder coated black and so will all of the bolt on components. The headers and dual exhaust will be ceramic coated.
Well, now I’m an author and I recently wrote a book titled, OUTLAW RUNThe book has a Star Muscle Car. It is an Ebony Black, 1969 Pontiac GTO, with a 795 HP Pontiac 455, under the hood.
We have selected tire sizes of 235.50 ZR18 for the front, and 315.35 ZR20 for the rear, to help keep this power plant GTO grounded and firmly on the road. I personally like Torque Thrust Wheels, manufactured by American Racing Wheels, and with the 18’s in the front and the 20’s in the rear there will be a lot of chrome reflecting back off these bad boy rims in the sunshine and under the lights at night.
I couldn’t stop there. I couldn’t just create this power plant 1969 Pontiac GTO to be read about on the pages in a paperback book without actually building this badass muscle car for real, right? Right? That is exactly what I am doing. Not just me alone. It takes a team of diehard muscle car enthusiasts with the right background, experience and capabilities to build a muscle car GTO based upon the story in a popular book. Without their talents, experience and passion, this task would never be accomplished.
The 1969 GTO’s interior will be a stock appearance and will be done completely in black from the headliner to the carpeted floors and everything in between. I want the “OUTLAW” GTO to be black on black just like in my book. Besides, when have you ever seen the bad guy showing up at a gunfight wearing white? OEM wiring kits come bagged and ready for installation when delivered.
Now I know what you may thinking; Where’s the tech stuff and what is it going to take to build this celebrity beast muscle car GTO? You were thinking it, so here it is. Well, some of it anyway. We want to keep this “OUTLAW” Pontiac GTO project build interesting so we won’t let the whole tiger out of the bag just yet. The “OUTLAW” Pontiac GTO project build must have a power plant under the twin scoops so we are going with a Pontiac 455 Engine with Mega Torque Capabilities backed up by a GM 4L80E Overdrive Transmission. The tranny will be equipped with Raybestos Blue Plates and Kolene Steels along with a Transgo Valve Body Kit and some well needed In-Gear Modifications. Special attention will be made to the pump clearances and there will be cryo-treating on all shafts and internal parts. The tranny will also feature a custom built torque converter to vehicle specifications with a lock-up installation. The beast tranny will come with a complete stand alone electronic commander and is built perfectly for street driving and gear grab46| Motorhead Magazine - October 2016
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All of the glass will be replaced and it will be tinted on the inside with a 5 percent tint film produced by 3M. Now that’s black on black! The GTO’s body parts will be replaced and installed prior the body being removed for undercarriage treatments to insure that all of the body parts are fitted and aligned properly. All damaged parts and accessories will be replaced, or repaired, in the build process. The undercarriage will be painted gloss black instead of undercoated for that extra show appeal. Custom etched display floor mirrors with the Pontiac GTO Logo and “OUTLAW” name, permanently etched on each one, will be positioned around the GTO’s undercarriage so spectators at the car shows, cruise nights and drag racing events can view everything under the showcased muscle car along with the rest of the beast. The “OUTLAW” 1969 Pontiac GTO will be painted with 8 coats of BASF Ebony Black Paint after an estimated 1000 hours of build time. Now that’s a Pontiac GTO project build and this is just an overview of what isin store for the “OUTLAW” 1969 Pontiac GTO Build this winter. Body and Paint will be completed at Lav’s Classic Car Restoration located in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. If you have a winter project build classic car, or truck, and would like a feature article included in an upcoming issue of Motörhead Magazine please contact me @ jwpisces14@aol.com and I can make that happen.
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