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- May 27, 2001
Guys and Gals.
Over the weekend Chris's car had an accident at Sacramento Raceway.
I was not there but here is an account taken from Norcal1320.com
WCHRA this weekend at Sac.... - Page 7 - Norcal1320.com
He came out of the hole hard, got out a few hundred feet, went up in smoke, stayed in it, headed for the right lane, turned back left to try to keep it out of the wall, car pitched sideways again, and flopped on its roof........cant believe it flipped over from that but it did......car is beat up but chris looked ok....From what I saw, t-tops and no funny car cage (hoop over your head) makes for a rough ride.... "Psycho Dave from norcal1320.com"
Here is Chris Chow's reply to the thread.
I'm OK guys. It was definitely a ride that I hope never experience again...but that's why we have cages in our cars. It's pretty much exactly as Psycodave explained. Glass everywhere. Initially, I could not get the seatbelt camlocks to release because my weight was on them. All the while, I was watching oil draining out of my dry sump, my helmet scraping on the ground and waiting forever for the car to stop. The motor and drive train are fine, we drove into the garage after we took it off the trailer."chowdog from norcal1320.com"
First of all I am glad that my friend is ok and that is always the most important thing.
Secondly I am heart broken for Chris the original owner of this WE4.
I am sure he will chime in when he gets a chance but I will give you a brief snap shot of this cars's 20 plus year racing history.
-The car runs 13.6 basically factory stock
-He drove the car from California to Bowling Green one year
-With Chris tunning the DFI 10 plus years ago it was driven close to around 75 mile round trip on slicks for street exercises.
-I will never forget seeing him take out a big block chevy on N20 when he still had the production v6 in it
-Duttweiler built him a stage 2 v6 that with baby turbos make more than 1000HP
-The car runs 9.1 @ 149 with a lot left
-We find Bob Rieger's motor for sale and Chris picks it up
-Chris gets the v8 running and wins a couple PSCA Heavy Street events
-2005 Las Vegas Street Car Super Nationals, Chris becomes the first
stock suspension Regal in the 7s with a 7.9 @ 175
Anyway those are a couple of fond memories I have of the car.
If she is not repaired I will really miss her.
Over the weekend Chris's car had an accident at Sacramento Raceway.
I was not there but here is an account taken from Norcal1320.com
WCHRA this weekend at Sac.... - Page 7 - Norcal1320.com
He came out of the hole hard, got out a few hundred feet, went up in smoke, stayed in it, headed for the right lane, turned back left to try to keep it out of the wall, car pitched sideways again, and flopped on its roof........cant believe it flipped over from that but it did......car is beat up but chris looked ok....From what I saw, t-tops and no funny car cage (hoop over your head) makes for a rough ride.... "Psycho Dave from norcal1320.com"
Here is Chris Chow's reply to the thread.
I'm OK guys. It was definitely a ride that I hope never experience again...but that's why we have cages in our cars. It's pretty much exactly as Psycodave explained. Glass everywhere. Initially, I could not get the seatbelt camlocks to release because my weight was on them. All the while, I was watching oil draining out of my dry sump, my helmet scraping on the ground and waiting forever for the car to stop. The motor and drive train are fine, we drove into the garage after we took it off the trailer."chowdog from norcal1320.com"
First of all I am glad that my friend is ok and that is always the most important thing.
Secondly I am heart broken for Chris the original owner of this WE4.
I am sure he will chime in when he gets a chance but I will give you a brief snap shot of this cars's 20 plus year racing history.
-The car runs 13.6 basically factory stock
-He drove the car from California to Bowling Green one year
-With Chris tunning the DFI 10 plus years ago it was driven close to around 75 mile round trip on slicks for street exercises.
-I will never forget seeing him take out a big block chevy on N20 when he still had the production v6 in it
-Duttweiler built him a stage 2 v6 that with baby turbos make more than 1000HP
-The car runs 9.1 @ 149 with a lot left
-We find Bob Rieger's motor for sale and Chris picks it up
-Chris gets the v8 running and wins a couple PSCA Heavy Street events
-2005 Las Vegas Street Car Super Nationals, Chris becomes the first
stock suspension Regal in the 7s with a 7.9 @ 175
Anyway those are a couple of fond memories I have of the car.
If she is not repaired I will really miss her.
