Jr. Dragsters on the salt

[Calkins]

My overactive mind just thought of something.  I remember seeing, a few years ago, someone had a few Jr. Dragsters at Bonneville.  One had a streamliner body on it.  I don't remember where I saw it, either here, Bonneville News, or maybe the SCTA site.  Does anyone remember those cars?

[Stainless1]

are you sure you are not thinking of Jack's cars....

[Jimbo]

MORE THAN LIKELY IT WAS AT THE UTAH SALT FLATS RACING ASST(USFRA) WORLD OF SPEED (WOS) WHICH IS RUN AROUND THE TEEN WEEK OF SEPTEMBER

[Calkins]

That sounds right.  The streamliner one looked like Jack's ride, but shorter.

[Glen]

The  Jr.streamliner was from the Vesco team, It was built by Rick and his son Calvin drove it. The JR.lakester idea was also tried at El Mirage. Mike Cook built one for his son and Ron Preutt had a couple for his daughters. They ran a 1/4 mile at the lakes. Cooks son is still driving a roadster and is in both 200 mph clubs. Pruett's daughter is driving a funny car after she spent several years in the Jr. Dragsters. She did very well coming up through the sport. 

[Calkins]

The  Jr.streamliner was from the Vesco team, It was built by Rick and his son Calvin drove it. The JR.lakester idea was also tried at El Mirage. Mike Cook built one for his son and Ron Preutt had a couple for his daughters. They ran a 1/4 mile at the lakes. Cooks son is still driving a roadster and is in both 200 mph clubs. Pruett's daughter is driving a funny car after she spent several years in the Jr. Dragsters. She did very well coming up through the sport. 

That's right!!

Ron's daughter drove a blown alky altered before the flopper.  Sounds like she knows how the handle the horsepower pretty well!

[Kato Engineering]

back in the day,
I assembled one for LITTLE mike cook that had TWO engines...we ran it at el-mo twice.

actually, at one time, BOTH of the COOKS had junior dragsters for their respective kids.
and then for some reason, they grew so big that they would not fit in them....and other interests came about....

[Calkins]

Have any pictures?

[McRat]

I really believe the majority of the Jr Dragster crowd are great folk.

But there are a few teams that would make the worst Little League Dad blush.

I saw one father kicked out of LACR by Bernie's wife? for screaming obscenities at his daughter for cutting a lazy light.

Million dollar efforts in what was intended to be a budget racing class does crazy things to folk.

It takes longer to stage a Jr Dragster than a TF car it seems.  They tried to get Diesels banned from the track because they don't like the smell.

[Calkins]

The guy that owns the fueler I work on bought his second Jr last year.  It's a fun family outting for the Jr as well as the fueler.  The older granddaughter has been running the first car for a few years, and won the big Jr's race at Cordova, Il in '07.  He the second car for the younger grandson, but his' not old enough to run it yet, so a family friend ran it.  There neat!