Our local newspaper, "The Paradise Post" this past Saturday ran a two page...yes two-page feature story on Slant Six racing. There were two color photos of both Glen Terry and also 71 year old Pat "PJ" Jesiolowski who as a women rookie finished 19th in the National Points tally. Glen was the National points winner and is 73 years "young". Due to this story, we have had several potential new slant6 racers come forward. They just didn't know about our group and that you don't have to have lots of $$ or experience or "youth" to come and race your slant6 car.
Guess how much the newspaper charged our slant6 team to run this feature article? Nothing...and they were glad to do it.
This goes to show others out there, that with a little effort and no expense, we can get exposure and with exposure to our sport, new potential racers.
Winter cometh..,,I am sure there are other teams East of the Mississippi that have some type of repore with their local newspapers and could write up a story about slant 6 racing in their area and then submit it ?
We need to add to our turnout number...
Have a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season to all from the 'Killer Bee Racing Team Hive'

That's Great,

Can you scan that Article in and post it as a .pdf or a .JPEG for the forum to check out?? or is there a weblink to the Paradise Post for us to check out??

Good Job Wayne and the killer Bees for promoting the Slant six Racing out on the West coast!!


Greg

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Hi Greg: Try www.paradisepost.com
They only have a newspaper three times a week and I see that they have not posted the Saturday Dec. 22nd yet. It ran under the Sports section. On the front page also, was a picture of PJ and a reference to go to the Sporting section. Color photos...two pages...no cost to us...lots of exposure...
Don't have a scanner and if I did, most likely couldn't figure out how to use it..
The article will surely add to our "Queen Bee" racing team numbers which are building in strength over the winter months.
Get everyone involved....Husband/Wives...Father/Son teams. (we have five now) Father/Daughter (we have three in the works). Boy-friend/Girl-friend teams, neighbors, past racers, Grandmas/Grandpas, sponsors..ect..ect.
As a 2008 New Years Resolution and gift to Seymour, lets have more cars at every single race than showed up in 2007?
Our goal for 2008 is to break the Clay City car count record which I think was 25 cars? Is this still correct? Anyone remember the actual car count from Clay City?

Couldn't find the article.



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hi CJ...They don't have Saturdays' issue up on their website. Give it another day or two and then up and running. Have a great holiday..Wayne

That is fantastic news, Wayne. Great work!

I'd love to see a copy online if possible, or maybe it could be partially or fully reprinted in SSRN?

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I checked the paradise post site yesterday and I still couldn't find it. I would like to check out that article as it sounds good, but their website was hard to find anything on there.

Greg

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Try www.papadisepost.com. Look for the search place. Type in Slant 6 Drag Racing. The article will come up.

Always check your spelling. www.paradisepost.com.

Killer Bees sting the nation in drag racing
Jeff Larson-Sports Editor
Article Launched: 12/28/2007 07:37:46 PM PST


"Ask any racer, any real racer. It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning."

"This quote was made famous by Fast and Furious, a 2001 movie starring Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, and even though this was a movie about racing modernized hot rod type cars, in the words of Dom from Fast and the Furious, winning's winning.

"There is nothing like winning, it's like your first kiss," 2007 Slant Six drag racing National Champion Glen Terry said.

"And Terry, 73 along with PJ Jones Jesiolowski, the lone woman in the Killer Bees drag racing club, did a lot of winning with Terry claiming the top spot compiling 165 points through five races. Terry beat out the second place finisher Rodney Hargis by 39 points for his first national championship.

"Jones Jesiolowski, in her first year drag racing, finished 19 overall, but first female finisher, beating the second place woman by one point.

"To me 19 isn't good enough. I don't think I'm any competition for anybody yet," said Jones Jesiolowski, 71. "Next year I'm going after Glen's spot. I'm going after Glen, however, I don't think he is living in fear."

"Wayne Erickson, one of the Killer Bee race organizers with Glen Terry and Mike Williams said the club has made leaps and bounds from where it was when it started.

"We started out with basically two cars: Glen's car and our car, (Wayne and his son), and currently we have 22 cars which gives (our club) 22
points (one point per car) at each race," Erickson said. "The South only averages six cars per race, so now we are beating the pants off southern teams just on car count (alone)."

"Terry began his ride in 1957 when he won his first race running a car known as a 1950 Murke.

"We just punched a hole straight through the muffler, cleared out the generator, and built the heads" Terry said. "Then I started winning."

"However, Terry doesn't enjoy working on cars as much as racing them.

"Racing (cars) is much better because at 73, I don't belong under a car changing the transmission, dropping pans and changin' rear ends," Terry said. "I like the camaraderie of racing-giving the drivers a bad time in the buildup lanes. (Undeniably however), winning is close to the top."

"Terry explained what it is to be in a build up lane.

"In bracket racing, we dial in at either a faster or slower car, (most of the time I am a slower car), and I love to give fast cars a hard time about setting the weight for me."

"Terry also said he's partial to six cylinder cars because it makes the win twice as nice, especially when he beats an eight cylinder.

"I have always liked sixes or odd balls because when you beat somebody with one of them, it's something," Terry said. (As opposed) to beating just another V-8 (driving an 8 cylinder), it's just another race."

In all Terry's years of racing, one of his favorite was when he was running his Vega in 1998.

"That car was so good it made the driver better. The first time I drove that car, the front wheels were pulled three feet off the ground (as well as) the front end going straight up in the air," Terry said. "After that, all I saw was blue skies."

Specifically, Terry's blue skies were when he put together his streak.

"At one point, my Vega won 36 straight rounds from April to July," Terry said.

With the Vega, Terry didn't lose till July 15, 1999.

"It was one of those things where everything was working good," Terry said.

However, Ter ry was quick to point out, becoming a Grandpa for the first time in 1983 sits at the top of the list.

"One of the best days was when I won a race in Oroville with my 65 Studebaker, then calling home to find out little Hilary John Terry was born," Terry said. "She was the first of our eventual 14 grandkids. The best thing about being a Grandpa is I can spoil 'em, then send 'em home."

Terry's success in drag racing undoubtedly draws double takes, but after understanding the obstacles he overcomes, it's surreal.

Edd Jesiolowski, PJ's husband calls it phenomenal.

"Glen has been consistent winning these races. One can't imagine with someone in great health, but with the handicap, it's strictly phenomenal," Jesiolowski said.

Terry suffers from a genetic disease known as a benign essential tremor, which as his wife Judy Terry says it's like a triggered time bomb in his head. When it goes off, results are inconceivable.

"It's a genetic disease where something in his brain short circuits and he shakes really bad," Terry said.

Glen Terry said he had the opportunity for corrective surgery, but as he says no one was going to fish around in his brain.

"I ain't having anyone mess around in my brain," Terry said.

Judy feels another reason he bypassed the surgery is because reaction time in drag racing is 99 percent of the race.

"He was afraid of (the surgery) slowing down his reaction time or what not," Terry said.

I don't take medicine, drink, or anything to affect my reaction time, Glen Terry said.

One of the more memorable rides of Terry's career was when he first drove a dragster and clocked a 9:30 over a quarter-mile of track topping out at 140 mph.

"There is something about a dragster sitting so low going that fast. The first time I drove one, I said to myself, man this is so quick, but after awhile you become accustomed to the (increased speed)," Terry said.

However, for all the dragster's impenetrable qualities, Terry's partiality is still with the six cylinder cars.

"In the late '60s, I had a straight 8 Buick Coup 39-I got more surprised looks with that car than any other because of the ability to run low 13s with the straight 8 Buick," Terry said. "People don't expect to run those times with (that car)."

While Terry may receive surprised looks when he runs his Buick, PJ Jones Jesiolowski says the first time she raced; she didn't even know how far the race was.

"When I first started, I didn't know where the end of the race track was or how to line up, but after my husband Edd said some inspiring words, I gave it a go," PJ said.

Edd remembers the phrase as something like this.

"Keep your foot in it, you will find the end when the time comes," Edd said.

In turns out, drag racing came more naturally to PJ than she realized as her husband said her first time out she made it to the semifinals beating 22 or 23 guys last April.

"After the race, I found out where the end of the racetrack was," PJ chuckled with her husband.

Jones Jesiolowski's first year of slant 6 drag racing was done in a 1972 Dodge Demon, and as her husband Edd, 67, says, the way she started was classic.

"When Pat told me she wanted to race Mike's (Williams) car, my first thought was no way, you are a granny Grady going down a freeway, but after the ( initial shock wore off) I called up Mike and said Pat wants to race," Edd said. "He said, well heck yeah let's do it."

With Jones Jesiolowski being the only woman in the Killer Bees racing club not to mention a rookie, one would think not too much would be expected, however, she proved them wrong when in one of her early races she clocked a perfect start light of 5:01.

When Jones Jesiolowski accomplished that feat, she needed to gloat to her husband and his buddies.

"I got something you never got (pulling out the slip which read 5:01), Edd almost never lived that one down as he was razed by the guys for that one," Jones Jesiolowski said.

Jones Jesiolowski's competitive spirit coupled with her age is something to marvel at.

"I love that she was willing to go out and try to do this thing that nobody else would do," Edd said. "Matter of fact, there are very few guys my age, Glen's and Pat's age, who would do this."

Drag racing for Jones Jesiolowski has been quite a thrilling, exciting experience, and as she put it, older folks don't get excited too often.

"At this age it takes a lot to get me thrilled, but the first race I ran was probably the most exciting because I hadn't been down the end of a racetrack before," Jones Jesiolowski said. "It was a combination of excitement and fear."






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Hi guys,

Thanks CARS for posting the text of the article. Wayne sent me an actual copy which I attempted to scan and post up. Here's a link to the PDF file:

I also created a higher resolution version for poster printing, if anyone wants it. The magazine was folded up a little bit, so I had to try and smooth those out, but you get the gist of it.

Congrats again guys!

MJ

Thank Menko, Chris, Jeff...This is just a example of what can be done to promote our sport. Didn't cost anything other than someone writing the article and sending it in to the local sports editor. Anything going on East of the Mississippi???? Later from Killer Bee hive where the high winds of Northern California have thousands of almond trees uprooted all over the place. I should have grown corn...later, Wayne