Australian Drag Racing Grand Finals

[Aussie Comet 1964]

had a big win with the Comet a couple of weekends ago, travelled across 3 states about 1900 miles to race at the Australian Drag Racing Grand Finals meet, ended up winning my bracket, Super Street against 65 other racers, its the biggest field I have seen in my bracket, some close racing, the Comet was running very consistent all weekend, I could dial it within 0.01, best time of the weekend was 11.021 & I was cutting some great lights too, 0.07, 0.06, 0.04, 0.002, 0.004 & a safe 0.1 in the final I beat the Australian Champion by 0.009 in the final, won enough prize money to cover my fuel & more importantly the highly desirable gold christmas tree trophy, its the Aussie equivalent to the NHRA wally trophy & got enough points to be my state (N.S.W.) Divisional Champion again for the 2nd year running, had a great time & met some more great people, then the following week had another shorter 1000 mile road trip with the truck with our 1934s for the early Ford V8 national rally, only had 1 day at home to reload, the big 64 Merc truck has done 3000 miles in the past 2 weeks & hasn`t missed a beat. but has gone through a heap of fuel!!. John

[albert]

Congrats on your win, you must be very proud! I love your Mercury truck and of course your Comet, they look stunning together. The early Fords are also very nice. Keep posting your pics. we love em.

[poboyjo65]

Congrats John!! yep love the pics!! Cool trophy too!!

[loman]

Congrats on a job well done! You have a great setup with car and tow rig.

[popscomet]

Man you have the world by the tail and that is so coool !! give yoursevle a big pat on the back from OL POP,not only for winning but also for those old fords and the big and little mercury's ......pop

[Jims65cyclone]

Congrats, John! I like the way you've got that trophy belted in riding shotgun.
Jim

[Aussie Comet 1964]

Jim, had to make sure the passenger was safe for the trip back, gave me something to look at for 15hrs too. John

[Rocket989]

Great stuff and congrats!! Every time I see the truck, I wanna take a trip up to Canada and search out an M100! Do a mini-me version of the big dog!!

[comethead]

Congratulations John! Looking good!

Joe

[ants875]

Very cool! Had to do a double take at the trophy pic I was wondering how comfortable it was going to be with that in your back! Then I saw you put the steering wheel on the wrong side, silly Aussie!

Ant

[StPro]

I like the matching car and truck combo and congrats on the racing. Did they make a Mercury version of the Excursion down under?

[Aussie Comet 1964]

The race meet was on TV last week heres a link to the replay, my bracket is 10 minutes in with a good slo mo of the Comet & the final round is at 1h 2 minutes.

I am not familar with the Excursion model but I don`t really keep up with the newer model cars, its 1970 or earlier for me. John

http://motorsportstv.com.au/?p=3209

[ec164]

Great job John, your Comet looked great coming off the line too! Then the FE Reunion T-shirt, can't get any better than that.............Al

[Jims65cyclone]

Super video! Congratulations, John.
Jim