Here are a few other recollections from my tenure with the team:

 I remember a Labor Day (in the US, not sure what the corresponding holiday was in Canada) we were booked into a FC vs. Jets show at  Cayuga, Ontario. George was the only FC to beat a jet that afternoon. He left on him hard, but George said that even though he turned his  win light on, the jet passed him after the finish line like he was parked at the curb. 

I remember sleeping in a mall parking lot for several days in Ft. Lauderdale after a race in Miami-Hollywood and before going to the  Gators. We rolled the car out and worked on it right there every day. We ate, cleaned up and brushed our teeth at a Sambo's restaurant. 
I remember taking advantage of a rain storm at Lakeland Dragway. We all stripped down to our skivvies and soaped up and showered on the  tailgate of the trailer. How refreshing. Larry Fullerton, with the Trojan Horse car hung out in the trailer with us all afternoon. 
I remember when Jim had the Cuda narrowed and slats cut in the hood at a body shop in Syracuse one winter. I took a week off from work and  went there and helped them with some of the body work.

I remember one night show at Pittsburgh Dragway coming down the return road when another FC, don't remember who, pulled the chute and it  detached from the car leaving him only the hand brake to stop. That track had a very short shut down and a hard left turn at the end. How  he made it, I am not sure, but it was close! 

I remember we had a blower explosion at Englishtown that left a small amount of gasket material burning inside the intake and I stopped the  NHRA starter from shooting a fire extinguisher down inside the intake. 

I remember Bert making us some great breakfasts in the back of  Ronnie's truck at the track. 

I remember riding my Harley to Cayuga on a beautiful Spring Friday for a points race only to have to ride it back to New York in snow  flurries on Sunday afternoon. 

I remember having the FC shop and stacks of Amalie in my garage on Canandaigua Road when Jim was between houses. 

1978-Present 

I moved to Florida in 1978 and got out of racing for a while to concentrate on building my underground utility business. I kept up  with Jim and his team over the next few years and marveled at their success. 

In the late 90’s the bug hit me again and I built a little 10 second ‘67 Nova back half bracket car. This just whetted my appetite so I  ordered a new 2000 Corvette Coupe from Suncoast Race Cars to race in NHRA Super Gas 9.90 class. I flew to Pomona and attended Frank  Hawley’s school to obtain my Super Gas license. “Fast “ Jack Beckman was my instructor and he and Frank Hawley signed my license. Looking  down the track and staging the car at the infamous Pomona drag strip, was an experience I will never forget. I had limited success with this  car getting it to be consistent. I traded the Nova for another Suncoast Corvette Roadster Super Gas car and ended up in the top ten  in Division 2 points that year. I also purchased a Mullis Super Comp dragster from World Super Comp and Super Gas Champ, Ed Richardson. I  won a couple of times with that car, but Super Comp’s competition can be very humbling. You can be “double 0” and lose by a thousandth.  Still lots of fun, but running 2 cars is a lot of work and expense. 

In 2002, NHRA Division 2, introduced Top Sportsmen racing into their program. I watched with great interest, these door cars that had to  run faster than 7.99 to make the program. In 2004, I bought a big 622 Reher-Morrison motor and put it in my Corvette coupe. Cleaned out the  cob webs, and went Top Sportsmen racing. The Vette was made for that horsepower and we immediately had success. I won a race and finished  in the top ten my first season. 

The following year we attended races at the Jeg’s Cajun Nationals and a Division 3 race in Columbus, Ohio where we qualified on the 32 car  bump spot which was 7.50. The Vette was a mild steel car and could only be certified to 7.50 with NHRA. Time to step up! I ordered a new  2006 Pro Stock GTO from Jerry Bickel Race Cars in Moscow Mills, Missouri and a new 622 from Reher-Morrison with a single stage of  Nitrous Oxide. After working the bugs out, we were fairly successful with this car and finished 6th in points in Division 2 and runner  upped at the Cajun Nationals. I took a year off and sold the car, only to get the bug again. I ordered another JBRC Pro Stock Pontiac G6 and  off we went again. I raced until 2010 when the economy went South and have watched from the sidelines ever since. 

Jim showed me how to race like a pro back in the 70’s and he even came and crewed with me at the Southern Nationals one year. We love to go  fast!     -- Dan Morrow