FLYING PIG RACING: WAYNE RICH AND WOOLLY BEAR JOIN FLYING PIG RACING AT ANRA FALL NATIONALS

WOW! Where to begin?
What a blast we had at the ANRA Fall Nationals.
The usual suspects, Dan, Dave, Kenny and myself (absent Barry and J.C.) were joined by a couple of California surf legends turned badass drag racers, hall of fame surfboard shaper Wayne Rich of Wayne Rich Custom Surfboards and the ultimate fiberglass repair guru Woollybear, of
Woollybear Ding Repair!! along with Frank, helping Woolly sort out the beast.

Wayne and his boards

Woollybear's shop

Neither of these guys had been down the 1/4 mile before this day! So Wayne showed up with a newly acquired '74 Vega. He's been stressing on this thing for days leading up to this race and had a mad thrash just days prior, after breaking the starter case and turning it sideways to the flex plate on a late night start up at the shop. Having got it all back together he actually prepped a local street (we won't say where!) with some VHT and heat and tried a practice launch. Crazy stuff!

Meanwhile, Woollybear shows up with an absolute bitchin' 67 Nova pro-streeter. He was riding sleeper style with the rat-ish exterior look. Underneath was some of the cleanest sheet metal work I've seen.

In the pits

Woolly's Nova is a monster. After a few passes to sort things out and get her to launch and hook, he turned a 10.15 E.T. at something like 135MPH. That was with the beast up on the rev limiter somewhere around 1/2 track! No telling what that thing would run on an all out pass. One well built car!

This is priceless! This is Wayne's reaction after making his first pass in the Vega. A stout 10.56. I think he liked it!

The day was a blur, trying to keep track of all 3 cars. But here's the highlight- WAYNE WENT TO THE FINAL ROUND OF HOT ROD IN HIS FIRST ANRA RACE!, eventually losing to NHRA stock, super stock veteran Mark Kirby in the final. What a day!

I managed to make it 3 rounds in Hot Rod, and 2 rounds in D-Gas. Not a bad day at all...