IMO the NHRA is trying to get more publicity and I believed it helped them. In turn I think it boosted S.O. even more
NHRA and "Illegal Street Racing"
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I'm not pissed. There was a little bit of sarcasm in what I said:hug: It just annoys me that people have this general perception of this part of the world that have never been here. That would be like me calling everyone who lives north of OK a yankee. Not to say that I don't, just not in public.:rofl:
I like the show but if NHRA is annoyed I can understand. I am sure it has most of law enforcements panties in a bunch I mean hell I just about went to jail last Sunday for two quick test hits in my truck on back road BFE. Talked it down to negligent driving coast me $275 better than going to jail and having the truck impounded
If it is 100% illegal street racing I am moving to Oklahoma cause them cops are dumb and I won't have worries about getting caught playing around once in a while:rofl:
Yes officer I promise I will never do it again
If it is 100% illegal street racing I am moving to Oklahoma cause them cops are dumb and I won't have worries about getting caught playing around once in a while:rofl:
Yes officer I promise I will never do it again
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I like the show but if NHRA is annoyed I can understand. I am sure is has most of law enforcements panties in a bunch I mean hell I just about went to jail last Sunday for two quick test hits in my truck on back road BFE. Talked it down to negligent driving coast me $275 better than going to jail and having the truck impounded
If it is 100% illegal street racing I am moving to Oklahoma cause them cops are dumb and I won't have worries about getting caught playing around once in a while:rofl:
Yes officer I promise I will never do it again
The police in OK can't be any worse then the police where they film the show Moonshine,its taken them 4 years to make a arrest! :roflmao:
I hope I don't offend anyone but I am pretty sure I would rather live in Oklahoma:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
I always wondered about that show. Just follow the cameras. Unless they're all actually doing it legally just staged in the woods.
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I never watched an entire episode of it, couldn't get by the moronic dialog on at the beginning of the one episode I started to watch. It like every other reality show in TV is not totally real. There is no way it could be. Even the long running COPS shows are not totally real. If I see another reality show about Alaska I will shoot my TV.
I started street racing in 1960, we had 1/4 mile stripes on the highway were we raced and use to have up to 50 cars show up from all around central Oregon for the Saturday night races. Lots of ways to get away if the cops showed up, but it was on a long stretch of straight highway about 5 miles from town.
I really doubt this show influences much more street racing than actually goes on anyway. Kids don't have the hot rod cars like they use to, most are driving some form of rice rocket of a pickup. I think the idiots who love to smoke out other drivers are much worse especially for diesel enthusiasts. The high school class at our local drag strip has very few racers in it any more.
As far as Oklahoma not being a mid-west state it borders Kansas on the North and Texas on the South so I guess you could call it a "TWEENER STATE". The highest point is 4900+ feet at Black Mesa on the border with New Mexico and is flatter then a tortilla so you can't really call them hillbillies. Has the most tornado's annually for the size of the state then anywhere else. Texas has more but is way bigger.
The panhandle of Oklahoma has to be the ugliest, and smelliest piece of real estate I have ever seen. I highly recommend to the Okies to try to give it away once all the oil and gas if finally extracted out of the ground. Maybe it could be cut off and made into Obamaland. Move all the liberals there and put a big ass fence around it I actually spent a month in Oklahoma one night but that's another story.
I started street racing in 1960, we had 1/4 mile stripes on the highway were we raced and use to have up to 50 cars show up from all around central Oregon for the Saturday night races. Lots of ways to get away if the cops showed up, but it was on a long stretch of straight highway about 5 miles from town.
I really doubt this show influences much more street racing than actually goes on anyway. Kids don't have the hot rod cars like they use to, most are driving some form of rice rocket of a pickup. I think the idiots who love to smoke out other drivers are much worse especially for diesel enthusiasts. The high school class at our local drag strip has very few racers in it any more.
As far as Oklahoma not being a mid-west state it borders Kansas on the North and Texas on the South so I guess you could call it a "TWEENER STATE". The highest point is 4900+ feet at Black Mesa on the border with New Mexico and is flatter then a tortilla so you can't really call them hillbillies. Has the most tornado's annually for the size of the state then anywhere else. Texas has more but is way bigger.
The panhandle of Oklahoma has to be the ugliest, and smelliest piece of real estate I have ever seen. I highly recommend to the Okies to try to give it away once all the oil and gas if finally extracted out of the ground. Maybe it could be cut off and made into Obamaland. Move all the liberals there and put a big ass fence around it I actually spent a month in Oklahoma one night but that's another story.
No kidding. I drove to amarillo and avoided Ok by going down into new mexico, which from NM to Amarillo was pretty actually. but looking towards OK was like you said flat flat flat. thats a great idea I second that motion.
I agree also. That was a good unbiased post with actual facts.
Western OK is very flat. I hate having to go out there and work. The further east you go the hillier it gets and by the time you get to Arkansas it's actually very pretty country over there...but a lot closer to the hillbillies.:roflmao:
I knew you were Mike. Just wanted to get my point across.:hug:I was just funnin.:hug:
The NHRA as part of their Charter is to promote racing on drag strips instead of public roads. It has been a long time since I saw any of this but all I think they are trying to do is say we don't condon street racing.
Anyone catch the news last night showing the street race crash I think in CA. One car lost control and crashed into the crowd killing at least 2 people, they are holding the driver on murder charges. Street looked like a regular drag strip starting line, lots of rubber. I was in LA a number of years ago for the Trucking for Kids drag race at Fontana, I went to TTS for a couple of days so Steve Cole could tune my truck. Not far from his shop in Compton was an area on a wide street in the industrial area where they street raced. Starting line, lots of rubber laid down and I'd go there to test the truck. Didn't take long for someone to show up and want to race for $. Cole said the cops don't normally mess with the races, or at least they didn't back in I believe it was 2006.
The paper they sent out was a warning if they do it again you will lose your nhra license . Thats what heard