23 CARS AT REDDING...ALL HAD THEIR "STINGERS" POINTED DOWN THE TRACK. THERE WERE "KILLER BEES" ALL OVER THE PLACE!!

This big turn-out made the Redding race a full five round bracket. (50 points)
Many "newbies" were there and those of you who decided to stay home and 'bench race' missed one of the biggest slant6 turnouts ever. Weather was perfect...big pit area..separate slant6 lanes...big payouts . Doug was busy in the pits helping all with timing, valve adjustments, teching. His son Allen, ran a perfect .000 and won the "side money" for his great reaction time. The pit area was "buzzing" with all the families and supporters of the Killer Bee cars that showed up in "force".

Dave Erickson had his 34' Coupe running faster and faster and set a new Inliner record which he also had previously held. Aric Erickson had the fastest times when he ran a 12:44 but the track was not holding his "Swingin' Six" . Andrew Howard drove all the way from Eureka with one great looking 63' two-door post car. With his new Killer Bee shirt on, Andrew just kept going faster and faster and ended up with a very good 17 sec. run and good reaction times.
Tristan and Charlier both from Sacto were also first timers and had both of their cars going faster each round. Gary Nelson , another first timer was there with camera in 'tow' and is making all the team members a video of all the races...We are trying to make Gary our 'TEAM PHOTOGRAPHER'..How about it Gary.
Adam and Lisa Betts showed up a little late in the show but had time to get some help from Doug setting lifters, ect. Wilson Rich , another first timer was there with his neat 66'Cuda and being from Red Bluff area, should see more action at later meets. Sergio Gonzales had two cars there and debuted his new 69 Dart along with his Duster. Ed and PJ Jesiolowski were there co-driver one of Mike Williams cars and PJ (Pat) took several people out on her way to the quarater finals.. PJ was a first time driver and this shows that you just need to show up and drive to have fun..Pat alson won $$$$.
Rick Valent drove all the way from Arizona with his early Valiant and his help as team Secretary was invaluable. Seymour had sent out the slant6 bracketing and Allen Dutra and Dave Erickson were "fine tuning" the bracketing as we had more cars there than the bracket was set up for. Ed' friend was there from Paradise and had fun driving his Duster all day.
Randy Judge was there with his Swinger running faster and faster. The new Dutra exhaust and four barrel had this great looking car running in the low 16's. Randy talked one of his fellow workers, to bring out his "Twister" and he too was given his team Killer Bee Tee shirt. Dan from Corning had his "supporters" with him and he ran a all time best and fastest for his van at Redding.
We missed Paul and CJ from the Eugene area but both promise to see us at the June2-3 meet at Medford. Thanks goes to Paul for your generous donation, which will go back to the racers as prize money. Richard "The Sandbagger" was there from Eugene and showed all that those Oregon boys know how to win...He won $425.00 in the final round when Oscar Dart started to "sing" back up thorugh the carb. just after leaving the starting line. Glen Terry and son had two cars there and Glenn again ended up taking some $$ home. I heard Glen is getting 'cross eyed' by watching the car next to him in the semi-finals, rather than his own lights...
Thanks to all the 'Killer Bees' that showed up and all the "newbies" that are now team members. Seymour will have a big writeup in the next issue of his newsletter. If you haven't subscribed yet, send $15.00 to the Slant Six Racing Association to keep informed . Wayne from Chico

Here are some photos from my digital...
The day started with a Killer Bee Team meeting to welcome everyone and give-out information, then it was off to the staging lanes!
DD

We have been 'bugging' AndyZ to come-out and race with us for a while but Andy's SL6 car was not ready in time.

Not to miss out on a good time, Andy trashed on a recently purchased 64 Valiant 2 door post car and brought it out to Redding, the bad news, the car has a 360 V8 4-speed in it.

We let Andy do some time trials with the rest of the Slants and he ran a few 13.20s with the car.
Later he ran some time only runs so we did a 'heads-up' match race, my 62 Lancer against his V8 64 Valiant. I put the spray to the Lancer and ran a 13.20, Andy was not going to let a SL6 car get the best of him and pulled a 12.75 pass out of his hat. I hope someone got a photo of that race, it was a sight to see, a good start and a 'side by side' run for both cars.

Later in the afternoon, Andy managed a "personal best" of 12.66... this is a licensed street car folks.
So if you see a primer black 64 Valiant rumbling around the Santa Cruz area, better not mess with it unless your packing some HP.
DD

[quote="Doctor Dodge"]We have been 'bugging' AndyZ to come-out and race with us for a while but Andy's SL6 car was not ready in time.

Not to miss out on a good time, Andy trashed on a recently purchased 64 Valiant 2 door post car and brought it out to Redding, the bad news, the car has a 360 V8 4-speed in it.

We let Andy do some time trials with the rest of the Slants and he ran a few 13.20s with the car.
Later he ran some time only runs so we did a 'heads-up' match race, my 62 Lancer against his V8 64 Valiant. I put the spray to the Lancer and ran a 13.20, Andy was not going to let a SL6 car get the best of him and pulled a 12.75 pass out of his hat. I hope someone got a photo of that race, it was a sight to see, a good start and a 'side by side' run for both cars.

Later in the afternoon, Andy managed a "personal best" of 12.66... this is a licensed street car folks.
So if you see a primer black 64 Valiant rumbling around the Santa Cruz area, better not mess with it unless your packing some HP.
DD

Thanks for the pics Doug. Had a great time with the slant six folks and will have the supercharged slant Dart ready soon. I hope I can beat my Valiant with my Dart! The really bad news about the Valiant is it has a GM Muncie 4 speed in it! I got in 9 runs on Saturday! The race against the Lancer was definitely the highlight of the day for me!