Drag Racing Rigs

[Woodenhead]

Went last weekend to the Rodeo du Camions (french for truck rodeo) in Quebec. What an event!! For two days its show and shine, drag races and the hole town's a party. They set up a drag track in town (up hill of course) and race both bobtail and with a full load of lumber. All of these trucks are daily drivers and these guys run em HARD. Check it out at http://www.municipalite.notre-dame-du-nord.qc.ca/en/index.html. I took lots of pics, I'll post a few as soon as I figure out how.

 

[Woodenhead]

These trucks were just ones that guys drove up for the weekend, not show and shine or racing. Very well organised event, even provide lots of camping and truck parking.

 

[Woodenhead]

Sorry, pics are gonna have to wait till I get this figured out. Right now they're 650K tif images, need to change em.

 

[Woodenhead]

These trucks were just ones that guys drove up for the weekend, not show

One more time

 

[Woodenhead]

And again

 

[Woodenhead]

By far not the fanciest trucks, but one of my favourite pics. Got both the Mack and the Freightliner cabover in the same race. I like the old cabovers.

 

[Woodenhead]

My favorite pic. I was waiting with the camera for a good pic. When he seen me he started pouring it on real good (made my day)

 

[Woodenhead]

Guy on right must have been the local hero. Everytime he came out the entire crowd went nuts. Had a rug up Detroit, sounded like few hundred chainsaws going. They'd sit, wound right up at the lights and let em go in a big gear, just about snuff it out, then smoke like hell and they'd be gone. Very fast. Buddy on the left would always wind it up and lay a few strips for the crowd.

Pics aren't as clear as I'd hoped (sorry), had too shrink em down to post.

 

[EMDDIESEL]

Anybody have pics of that jet engine powered Peterbilt?, i know its not a diesel, but it looks cool as hell and is the fastest truck on earth they said

 

[Woodenhead]

yep

I seen the truck in '93 at an airshow in Abbotsford BC, CRAZY! Took lots of pics, if I can find them I'll scan em and post em. May take a bit, I've moved a few times since and their packed up somewhere.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

There were *2* jet powered big rigs at the Orlando Florida Speedway track a few years back - absolutely the most impressive drag setups I've EVER witnessed! Those things laid out a HUGE cloud of fire, smoke and vapor that enveloped the whole staging area behind them - including a couple of hundred spectators who "wanted a closer look"... Wonder most of them didn't get barbequed... Those rigs blasted your eardrums no matter HOW much you tried to plug your ears!



Just think what a fantastic show they could put on at a truck pull if they could convert thrust into traction...

 

[Woodenhead]

BBQ on wheels. This ones the Super Shockwave. I found a pic on the WWW of the one I saw in BC (shock wave) but I can't seem to save it to post it, here's a link http://autoracing.about.com/library/pw/bl_shock.htm?once=true&

 

[DieselB59]

oh but it is a diesel

EMD, the Shockwave truck is a tri-jet powered Conventional tractor. Some would think that it has nothing to do with diesel, but they burn diesel fuel because it is less volatile. I have spoken with Les Shockley at the Englishtown, NJ Diesel Nationals a few times, then watched him break 277 mph in the quarter mile. He was not allowed back to the track for a couple years, and last year was allowed back, but they could only display the 1/8 mile time on the board due to track insurance problems. He still made a full pass, but nobody got to see how fast he really went. He was over 180 mph in the 1/8. Bob Motz's single jet Kenworth had a chute burn up on him and just barely stopped it in time.

 

[Briar Hopper]

The Shockwave was at the Cummins Big Rig Nationals at Maryland International Raceway, Budds Creek, Maryland, this past April. It was great to watch it, totally mind-blowing speed and power.

And then there's the quad-turbo Detroit Diesel Allison V-12 powered big rigs owned by Smith Transport that can run 11 to 12 second 1/4 miles... Same trucks were at Thunder in Muncie. Always a treat to watch them run !