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    Offline triggerfish

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    Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « on: February 23, 2008 - 08:22:49 PM »
    This was a blast!...
    « Last Edit: February 23, 2008 - 08:26:52 PM by triggerfish »
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    Offline Katfish

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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #1 on: February 23, 2008 - 08:40:10 PM »
    Looks pretty interesting.  Got any more details, cars, situation?

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    Offline triggerfish

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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #2 on: February 23, 2008 - 09:06:40 PM »
    Musclecar 1000 07 cruise this past oct.  40 cars cruised (raced!) for 6 days, 1000 km from Coronado, Ca to Palm springs, up to Lake Arrowhead, down into LA, spent a day racing @ Cal Int'l Speedway & ended @ playboy mansion.  Live fox coverage of 12 cars that were craned up to mid deck, where we drove thu the carrier to the flight elevator & all 12 went up together to the top deck.   Fox news was all over it.  Invited CHrysler & the superstock CHally when it was red, white & blue, but they declined.  Admiral gave us a tour & most highly decorated medal of honor winner of ww2 & Korean war gave a talk while we had lunch on the deck.  Then off to the burnouts.  Here's Dave Tweedy's spectacular burnout   


    Also, check out www.musclecar1000.com   
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    Offline 6packCuda

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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #3 on: February 23, 2008 - 09:07:07 PM »
    I just saw a story about that in MPG.
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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #4 on: February 23, 2008 - 09:13:09 PM »
    I live in San Diego and I didn't know anything about it! :villagers:
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    Offline triggerfish

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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #5 on: February 23, 2008 - 09:31:20 PM »
    It was on local TV for a little while, but Fox News had it on all day.  Had a friend on the east coast call to say he saw us being hoisted up.  ONly regret was my bro couldn't get his 69 Charger R/T trailered there for the burnouts.  I wanted the Hemi CHally & his Charger to go head to head, just like back in 70.  But he made it anyway & sat co-pilot.   Once in a lifetime opportunity I'll never forget, especially because of a miraculous rescue that happened the day before the Midway.
    I fractured my oil pan on the way back to the hotel & saw no way to get it repaired in time. Chally was so low, something in an intersection of downtown Coronado split the pan's seam wide open. 
    Unreal how events had me in Jack Hinton's Mopar shop getting the pan welded up.  Needless to say, we made the 1000 mile trip & only scraped the pan twice @ 90 mph down from arrowhead.  That's a testimony to Jack's welding expertise
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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #6 on: February 23, 2008 - 09:47:25 PM »
    Now why didn't they do that when I was stationed on her?  I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

    My longest at sea period was 111 days from port to port in 1984.

    Good to see that she is still being put to good use.  Ha.

    FY1
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    Offline triggerfish

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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #7 on: February 23, 2008 - 10:42:51 PM »
    My hat goes off to you after the Admiral painted an action filled picture of the Midway's history.  Its quite a floating museum that's open to the public. Her "crew" was awsome in craning us up & down. 3 of us waited till closing time to help take the 12 cars down, while the rest of the 40 cars & drivers went on to Dana Point.  You shoulda seen the heads turn on the freeway as Chris' Sublime Superbird, Reno's Hemi orange T/A & my Go Mango chally blasted down the freeways to Dana Point.  The Bird's "2 story" spoiler kept us from getting lost in traffic! 
    « Last Edit: February 23, 2008 - 11:06:59 PM by triggerfish »
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    Offline FY1443433

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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #8 on: February 24, 2008 - 09:11:24 AM »
    Triggerfish,

    So now you know that the Midway spent most of its life in Japan.  She was my first tour of duty in 1983.  I retired from the Navy in 2003.

    Thanks
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    Offline inot2old

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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #9 on: February 24, 2008 - 02:55:25 PM »
    Any pics of the chick that owns the turbo Cuda.  The pic of her in MCG looked greeaat.  :droolingbounce:
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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #10 on: February 24, 2008 - 06:01:31 PM »
    thats looks awesome!

    I was in the Great Race in 2006.........whats the cost?....could not find out anything on the website.........what are the qualifications to do it for 2008? :wavingflag:
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    Offline back n black

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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #11 on: February 24, 2008 - 07:30:55 PM »
    Very cool! :cheers: :cheers:
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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #12 on: February 24, 2008 - 11:17:45 PM »
    That definitely looks like a ton of fun!  WOW!!  Thanks for sharing the pics!   :grinyes:   :thumbsup:
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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #13 on: February 25, 2008 - 10:43:30 AM »
    Just outta curiosity, how did they drag race on the deck?!?  I mean I know they're loooong ships - I was in VA Beach for a homecoming of the Enterprise - but they're not THAT long...

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    Re: Drag racing on the deck of the USS Midway....
    « Reply #14 on: February 25, 2008 - 11:05:05 AM »
     :droolingbounce:  Man Oh Man    :wow: :eek2:
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