Caught Napping
by Christopher McKenzie
Title
Caught Napping
Artist
Christopher McKenzie
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
This race car owner was caught taking a quick nap inside his transporter cab at the 2015 HAMB Drags at the MO/KAN Raceway near Pittsburgh, Kansas. Quite a few late nights were clearly spent in preparation for this years race at the Kansas & Missouri border.
The HAMB Drags are a premier Midwest nostalgia drag racing event held each year at this small 1/4 mile raceway. What makes the HAMB Drags so special is that unlike a 'car show' the old, historic vehicles that participate (nothing newer than like 1964 can be run) are actually raced side-by-side just as they were done decades ago.
Sure, most of them are not run at 100% as these old race cars from the 50's and 60's are pretty much irreplaceable if something catastrophic were to occur...but they do get thrashed quite decently.
Besides a couple of cars that were brought to this years race this owner resurrected something quite special. The transport truck you see here is a 1969 Dodge that was owned by the Candies & Hughes team back in the early 1970's!
Now, this truck mind you has been rotting away unused for decades. Seth (pictured here) pulled this old truck from a muddy field and just recently replaced the entire drive train (engine, transmission, rear-end, brakes, etc) to bring this old beast back from the dead.
A quite unbelievable display of dedication to history. I say he can take all the naps he wants.
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August 25th, 2015
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