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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 21 2010, 10:54 AM (525 Views) | |
| craftymore | Jul 21 2010, 10:54 AM Post #1 |
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Support your local demo derby.
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Martinsville had a decent turnout this year. In all about 19 full size and a dozen or so compacts plus a handful of lawnmowers competed. TE Promotions runs the show. TE promotes mostly Indiana derbies in the summer and Florida derbies in the winter so at Martinsville they run by Indiana style build rules. This means that cars can only have frames welded from the A-Arms forward top side only. Drivers can also install hump plates. Exterior door seams can be welded solid and the trunk lid can be welded on as well. A 4 point cage is allowed. Other than these reinforcements, the cars have to remain largely stock strength wise. Any motor,transmission, drive shaft and 5 bold rear end can be used. Martinville is one of the last places to use only logs as a boundary. They are really only a stuck throttle from having someone in the stands or infield killed or seriously hurt. Everyone else now has concrete barriers of some sort. The fairboard really needs to spend some $ on those. I think that with different promoter would make this a better show with a higher car count. They ran 2 heats of full size, a one shot deal for mowers, one shot for compacts, and a feature for full size. To view all my pics, check out http://s902.photobucket.com/albums/ac225/derbyfan83/DemoDerbies/2010Martinsville/ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Run for your lives! Logs just don't cut it as barriers! ![]() The white pipe used on the infield portion is just plastic plumbers pipe. Not very strong! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A cavy wagon would take 1st in the compacts. h2o added before the big car feature. ![]() ![]() ![]() The white '75 Pontiac sedan took 1st. A mid 60s Chrysler Newport took 2nd and a suicide Lincoln got 3rd after being put on the logs. |
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| JustDavid | Jul 21 2010, 02:11 PM Post #2 |
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Very cool pics Zach! I agree about the logs and pvc pipes to protect the crowd. The expression on the blonde lady's face is funny to me...I sure wish I knew what she was thinking at that moment. |
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| Swifty | Jul 21 2010, 04:37 PM Post #3 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Great pics and it looks like the crowd got a little exercise...
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