Hey there salt lovers. My name is Chris Hecht. I made it out to World of Speed last September. I took my dad and oldest son for the day. It was the last saturday and the action was sort of slow, but I still loved it. I'm heading out to Speed Week on Tuesday the 19th. My friend from work, Dallas Volk, tells me that's the day he would go if he could pick one. Of course, as part of the Volk Bros. team, he'll be there all week. I live in Farmington, Utah and work as a Quality Engineer for a medical device mfg'r. I am a certified car nut (and airplanes too). It started with airplane and car plastic models as a kid. Then I raced rc cars for a couple of years. Then after finishing High School, I picked up a '72 Bug for $500 and started body work, lowered the front end. I was in Brazil for 2 years and when I got back, my dad had restored the Bug. While I was gone, my dad picked up a '94 Mustang GT that he started drag racing. He used to have a '64 Comet Cyclone, where he learned some small block Ford tricks. He got his late model Stanger to go 12.85 @ 106 at Famoso in Bakersfield, Ca. with a stock block, stock cam, stock ported heads, boltons and small slicks.
So, when I returned from Brazil, I went up to Utah to BYU for school where my passion for cars started to get serious. I got interested in 4 cylinder imports. I bought a '95 Civic coupe which I mildly modified. I finished school in mfg'ing engineering (mostly for my love of mechanical things (cars/planes)) and moved to California for my job. There I traded my Civic for a '94 Mustang GT with no a/c.
I was swayed by the exhaust note. I took it to Fontana Drags and Famoso where I ran a best of 14.8@ 93mph. After about a year it started burning oil and then we moved back to Utah for my current job. So, I sold the Stang for another Civic that had a/c and gets 40mpg. So, with 3 boys under 6 and #4 on the way, my Hechtrodding is mostly hot wheels on the carpet track, building plastic models (current project is a '50 Ford Truck with a flathead I want to paint flat black, drop it to the ground and try my hand at a "Hechtrods Speed Shop" logo on the door. We'll see.
) and taking the kids to car shows in Utah.
I am pretty much interested in all types of racing, road racing, drag racing and most recently speed racing. I started a Hechtspeed blog, I started it to document all things speed related with my family since my dad, uncle, cousings, brother and I are all into cars and planes.
http://hechtspeed.blogspot.com/There's my blog if you're interested in seeing pics of my dad's Comet, my bug, cousins cars, my brothers rc jets and planes. Anyway, sorry if this was boring and I am not currently working on a lakester project or something. Ha ha. But, I'll be out there in 10 days with my camera and hopefully a beach cruiser bike, because I hear from Dvolk that there's hundreds of cars and the pit area is huge! Can't wait. I'll be lurking.
Chris "Hechtrod" Hecht
