NOSTALGIAS, WILD BUNCH EDITION

The way things used to be” is often the tagline for the Bay Rodders Nostalgia Drags, and, if it might have often been a case of wishful thinking, it wasn’t this time, folks. The Wild Bunch delivered all the excitement it used to throw up in the ’90s: crossed-up passes; wheel-stands; and, unfortunately, even a crash. It also had lots of mechanical carnage and oil on the track, with a couple of cars not making the first or any other round, despite mercy missions to chase up parts far and wide.

In the big marquee, insults and more personal forms of character assassination flew back and forth from the Reid, Tynan, and Richardson pit area. Bob Owens just kept his head down and worked quietly away; he’d had to spend a large amount of money to get the flying Falcon ready for this meeting and hadn’t run the car for quite some time. Indeed, the same was true of most of the others. Tom Richardson’s ’57 had had nothing done to it since its big blow-up more