We had nine Slant 6 cars pull up to the line for the 17th Annual Southeastern Mopar Meet 2001 at the Atlanta Dragway this past weekend, Sept 7th & 8th. The racers included: Ron Parker, Dale Rose and Brian Bayer from GA; Charlie Schmid from FL; Rodney Hargis and Lucas Brunner (back in Meril's Half Hemi) from TN; Charlie Holmes from AL; and Charles Myers and Ron Hamby from NC.
Friday night was "test and tune" and the Slant 6 guys were all working to get their cars ready for the Saturday events. We awoke to dark and ominous skies Saturday morning, we even had an early rain shower; but the skies cleared by mid-morning and we were off to racing.
The first round elimination winners in the Slant 6 Shootout were Ron Parker, Charlie Holmes, Charlie Schmid, and Ron Hamby. Lucas Brunner got a first round bye. In the second round of eliminations: Charlie Holmes won against Charlie Schmid and Lucas Brunner won against Ron Parker. Ron Hamby got the bye. In the third round: Ron Hamby won against Lucas Brunner, with Charlie Holmes taking the bye.
The final round pitted Charlie Holmes' '70 Plymouth Duster against Ron Hamby's '66 Dodge Dart. Charlie dialed a 17.09 against Ron's 12.38 dail-in. Ron cut a .530 light againt Charlie's .590 light and was all over the brakes at the top end to take the win. Ron ran a 12.407 at 102.04 mph againt Charlie's 17.06 at 76.66 mph.
Rodney Hargis and Lucas Brunner went 3 and 4 rounds (respectively) in the Sportsman event and Ron went 3 rounds in the Super Pro event.
We let 'em know the Slant 6 cars were back in town!
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