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Just saying Hi!!

Well.....I heard that this is where are the cool people from the land of Oz are hanging out these days!! Just wanted to say Hi to all!
Most people call me Smitty! My birth name is Jeff Smith, but Smitty will do, thank you!!
I spend countless hours on the 1320x USA web site and AKA/CamoMan told me about you all "down under" so I definately had to check it out!!!
I have already "met" Leanne "Tuff 73" over on the other web site and if the rest of you are as cool and as passionate about racing as she is, then it's all good!!!!!!!
Near as can tell it's Summer time where you are which makes me jealous since it is Winter here. We have a few more weeks till it's back to racing. In the mean time we are all doing our winter tear downs and mods to go a little faster this year.
Our first big event of the Season will be the "Pinks All Out" at Zmax Dragway in North Carolina and I am looking forward to it! I live in New York so it will be about a 10 hour trek for me but well worth the trip!!
My "home track" is Lebanon Valley Dragway in New York (www.dragway.com) As soon as racing starts I like to post a blog about the events I attend and will try my best to share those stories on this site as well just to keep you all "in the loop" with State side Drag racing.
Thanks for letting me introduce myself and am looking forward to a great 2009 racing Season.
PS.
Don't foreget to check out 1320x.com and stay tuned for the Grudge match of the Season AKA/CamoMan Vs. Smitty at the 1320x event on September 12th at Maryland International Raceway!!!!!! As CamoMan says...It's going to be "Big Time"!!!!

Smitty

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Comment by Sue Corbett on February 13, 2009 at 10:36am: hi smitty! i don't race anymore, but have in the past for fun. my husband and i have a 1/2 built dragster in the shed, crew for friends when we can, and get to events when we can.

it's always great to meet people across the globe who have the same interests!!

Comment by Leanne Braggs on February 8, 2009 at 1:30pm: Hi Smitty,
This is yet another Leanne from the land of OZ. I actually live the next suburb to Leanne, Tuff73 and know her well. Yes it is summer here, we had our hottest day on record yesterday in our state of Victoria 46.4 deg C or 115.5 deg F in Melbourne and hotter in the country areas. Bloody hot! We have bush fires breaking out everywhere, hundreds of homes lost, numerous acres burnt out and the latest count of 34 dead and rising. The area all around Heathcote, where 1320x Australia is holding it's first event in a month has been well alight. I can't seem to find if the track area is OK, but it is so dry up there, and the wind we had with the heat, I can only hope all is OK there.
I am another Aussie that loves her drag racing. I race against or with Leanne Tuff73 whenever we race, although we have only come up against each other in qualifying, not actually in DYO yet. She is such a wizz on the lights, I try to come out at a different time and miss her..... I race a Ford TC Cortina with a BBC454 that runs 9.8's at the moment - hopefully better in the future. My husband and son do the work, I am just the prima donna driver - not really, I try to help where I can. My husband doesn't actually drive, my son has his own car at the moment, (he runs between 8.9 and 9.0) but jumps in the seat of mine whenever he can - cheap racing when mum and dad pay for it all - 27 years old and still cons us!! We love our racing, but living in Victoria, we have very limited racing. Only 2 main 1/4 mile tracks and the one we go to the most, Heathcote, is about 3 hours away.
Good luck getting your cars ready for that first meeting. If anything like us, they will be finished in the last week even though you have had about 5 months to do it.
Look forward to updates,
Leanne B (the old one. My granddaughter is only a few months younger than the other Leanne's son.)