It could be said that national car events are declining in popularity, but that's only the case if you're looking at stale event formats that have done the same thing at the same place for dozens of years. A fresh outlook on the national car event subject is the Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals, held at historic Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This event just finished its third year in operation, and it is without a doubt the fastest growing car event in our market. When the idea was first brought up by Chris Sondles, he had high hopes and a great team behind him. Since that first event, the Tri-Five Nationals has continued to grow, with participants from every state in our great country, as well as participants from 14 other countries! This year's total number of cars was 2,717, which is remarkable when you consider that we're talking about Chevrolet passenger cars built in 1955, 1956 and 1957. This three-year run is undoubtedly a popular platform to build upon, and anyone
So you bought an old car? Maybe you got the one youve always wanted or maybe so-and-sos uncle had this one sitting in his backyard for years and finally decided to move it out. Now youve got it and here it sits in all its dusty, unknown-condition glory. So now what?
Well these days the path is as unclear as its ever been. Few of us can afford to simply tear it down to labeled ziplock bags of nuts and bolts and begin a full restoration with a ridiculous 2 day deadline, like you see on the television shows. Quite the opposite, most of us just want to get it running and driving and get an idea of what were working with. Were not usually short of big ideas for a grand restoration project, but first things first. What exactly have we gotten ourselves into here?
First steps are usually to check the vitals, and make every attempt to get it into a condition for a safe start up. Defining safe
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