Daily Dose #23

Decals went out! Shirt, hoodie, and hat presell starts Friday! Will ship Day One of Midwest Drags

Adam Dorey’s 79 Malibu drag and drive history article is up on FB and website

Carolina Drag Cruise STARTS TOMORROW – 4 spots are open, if you are close to

Racer spotlight – Nathan Robert – 98 Mustang, 200hp Nitrous LS Swap started 9 weeks ago.

Has never been a drag strip. Local tracks have been rained out so CDC will be first test!

Term X, Junkyard 5.3 with unknown cam, used th400 with “supposed to be 3k stall converter, 8.8, and patched together exhaust from a truck and the Amazon Racing bits…

Nathan said his “Goal is a 7anything and to Finish the event with an intact car”

**Midwest Drags – 19 days –

Racer spotlight – Derrick Adams – 96 Geo Tracker, 351W, TKO600

Tracker has a couple First to Second gear hits at Dragway 42

They built the car for road courses and autocross but saw the fun everyone was having at Drag and Drive events so thought they would give it a try. If they survive Midwest Drags, they are planning to hit Autocross week!

**RMRW – 32 days

Daily Dose of Drag and Drive #22 

Decals are shipping today! Shirt pre-order begins Friday.  

C10 Nationals - Arm Drop No Prep on Pit Lane 

Carolina Drag Cruise in 3 Days!!

Midwest Drags - 21 Days 

Daily Dose of Drag and Drive #21

500th post to IG!! 1000 Followers on IG!

Apparel Pre-Sale goes LIVE today!! Shirts/Hoodies/Hats will ship 6/6.

Midwest Drags - Calvin Nelson confirmed on his YT channel that he is bringing the GM 4200 Fairmont wagon to MW Drags. Nivlac57 for more info

Midwest Drags - Engine Builders Magazine will be in attendance.

RMRW - Last weekend of April, Brady Bluma’s Race Week Hot Rod class winning 65 C10 had a crazy accident and he is in need of a bed and possibly a rear axle.

RMRW – Matt made a post requesting people not bring boring cars for Plan B. If your cool car can’t make it, drop to Road Week and let cool cars. I agree with this, what is your thought?

Sponsor for MW Drags videos and social posts.

Sick Week - 220+ IG posts, 77 Youtube Videos

KOTOR - 40+ IG posts, 22 Youtube Videos

Happy Mothers Day

Merch will be available for pre-order tomorrow morning!! Shirts should finish up this week. Hoodies and Hat next week. We will be able to ship shirt after the C10 Nationals show next weekend!

Podcasts are uploaded – Spotify and Anchor until we get 50 listens, then Anchor allows export to other feeds like iTunes, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts etc

TacoTime Fairmont – new turbo – Precision 88/84 and Brian Tooley Stage 4 cam and matching valvesprings. Tuned by JP, the car put down 1176 hp and 1320 ft lbs

Rich’s Hot Rod Sauce – Accelerate your Flavor – unboxing

Michael Lone of Carolina Drag Cruise, Zach Slevin of Cruise and Lose and Jared Holt of King of the Open Road (KOTOR) give you behind the scenes access to what it takes to host your own Drag and Drive event! 

Viral Video update - 300,000+ views! "MidwestMinute" for Midwest Drags for Shorts and Reels

Apparel is being printed right now!! Shirts are first, hats next and decals last. Building out the website for ecommerce now

Live tonight at 7pm Central – Michael Lone and Zach Slevin and Jared Holt – Drag and Drive hosts

KOTOR List updated on the Regional DnD List today

Midwest Drags Complete History uploads as well

30 Days until Midwest Drags – Spots are open, if you are fast enough. 10.5 and faster.

Fastest 5 Returning drivers –

Glenn Hunter - 7.4415 -- Clark Rosenstengel - 7.903 -- Scott Keplinger - 8.179

Bill Schwarz - 8.5789 -- Tom Bretz - 8.7173

If you win your class on a set of M/T tires, M/T is paying your MW Drags 2023 entry.

Alex Taylor gets a full time host spot on Hot Rod Garage! How will this effect her drag and drive participation? Will she move out of Arkansas and to where they shoot the show? Will she give us a quick interview????

Cruis'n Oklahoma's King of the Open Road (KOTOR) was amazing! I'll do a quick recap and announce their next event!! Carolina Drag Cruise is the next event on the List!! Quick Recap of classes and cars.