30TH ANNIVERSARY SNAP ON OLDIES BUT GOODIES DRAGS PRESENTED BY PROJECT FILTER

This year’s Oldies Drags featured a wide variety of stormy weather. First, we all learned during Friday’s parking day that a funnel cloud (similar to a tornado) touched down about 25 minutes from the raceway. Throughout the day and night, nearly an inch of rainfall pounded the region. After three hours of track drying on Saturday morning conditions improved greatly, as partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the low 70’s made for a comfortable day of racin’ and showin’. A second night of overnight rain helped create the second straight day of track drying, but fortunately enough conditions we’re good to go by 11 am, and racing kicked into gear very rapidly. Heavy dark clouds dominated the day, along with a number of delays due to showers, but by 4 pm all final rounds had been completed and fourteen champions celebrated in the Pepsi Winner’s Circle.

Thanks to Snap On Tools and Project Filter the Oldies But Goodies Drags celebrated 30 years in 2010. We tip our hats to the AA/Supercharged organization for putting on a fun and entertaining show to watch.  Mike Molea defeated Howard Anderson (who had run low e.t./top speed of the meet in round one at 6.96-202 mph) in a tightly-contested final round, 7.00 to a 7.02, in a race decided by just .02 of a second.

We’d also like to recognize some of the sportsman racers who excelled over the weekend. Notably, Lynde Fischer won her third consecutive race in a row. She swept the Hot Truck/Gold Cup, Super Ford/Gold Cup and now the Oldies Drags (is there more in store?)—nice job. Scott Stanger drove his wild “Bad Manners” Fiat Topolino to two runs into the 7.80’s, an incredible feat due to its short wheelbase and impressive blower combination, most certainly a sight to behold everytime he wheels it down the quarter-mile. Also, congratulations to Bruce Compton for pulling the monkey off his back, after twice finishing bridesmaid in recent weeks, he scored the Pro Cash-No Box title on Sunday to put his Oldsmobile in victory lane. And how about John Wood and his street driven `38 Chevy coupe, the team leader of the Melba Outlaws. Having raced at nearly 25 straight Oldies events, Wood scored the Hot Rod title, a winner many times over the years.

Special thanks to Rick Hale with the resurrected Baron’s car club, who helped promote the event throughout the community. He was also one of several show winners on Saturday with his freshly painted highboy Model A coupe. Lastly we’d like to pass along our appreciation to the Eagle 96.9FM. They kicked things into overdrive for the ten days leading up to the event and you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing about the Oldies weekend throughout the Treasure Valley.

We hope you enjoy a quick glimpse of the color and excitement taken at this year’s Oldies bash.

We’d like to say thanks to Brian Losness, Rick Cate, Gary/Jessica Himes and staff photographers for giving us an opportunity to showcase some of the cars attending this year’s event. Should you wish to order any of these outstanding shots, be sure and drop us an email and we’ll be glad to put you in touch (via email) with the credited photographer.