Pirmasens Drag Racing Camaro Query

[Euro1320Racer]

Hello,
Looking through some old video (tape) footage from dragracing in Pirmasens. Good times with racing every two weeks around the corner. Back then I drove a Mopar and the LUV truck was blue and white running 13’s. Anyways, I hope someone will recognize the red Camaro in this video running Henry Roeder’s Dart. I believe I saw the car twice and never again. Once in Pirmasens for the races and once at the “Cars are the Stars” show at Vogelweh. I believe it had the first mountain motor I had seen in Europe with a Shafiroff 632. After completing a burnout prior this final run against Henry the Camaro lost a slick and had to mount its street tires to make this run. Does anybody know who owned the car and where it’s at now? It was very nicely built, clean and not too cut up if at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBQQ-4Ns2g

[Danys-Garage]

Hi..., Alex... :wink:

Camaro....., Hmmmm.., i think that the Name from the Car was "Tough-Enough"....

The Driver... (i dont remember his Name) crashed the Car in 2003 or 2004 in Oscherleben.!

After about 100 mtr. he lose control over the car and turn it over.!

Greetings
Dany

[Ratracer]

I'm pretty shure that's Michael ("Mountain Mike") Klauer's 1967 Camaro with a 632 ci Shafiroff engine. Beautiful car! There was a write-up on his car in issue 04/00 (April 2000) of the german edition of Chrom & Flammen.
I saw it run at Pirmasens and at least once at Hockenheim (Nitrolympics).

[Euro1320Racer]

Hello Dany and Ratracer,

Thank you for the antworten. Ich glaube das diese Camaro schon irgendwas mit einem Mountain Mike zu tun hatte. Nice car that sounded pretty good. Ich glaube Henry's Dart hat dieses rennen gewonnen aber sein auto war sehr konstant and he didn't have the disadvantage of having to change tires in eliminations.


Cheers,

[Klötzer Jungs]

Hallo...,

@Dany:

Den "Tough-Enough"-Camaro gibt es meines Wissens nach noch! Zwar (noch) nicht fahrbereit, aber er existiert (glaub ich) noch.
Der Besitzer/Pilot war und ist Ralph Dewald aus Algermissen...welcher hier bestimmt auch noch viel mitliest.

Denn...er unterstützt dieses Board!!! Rechts das Banner www.americar.eu ist seine Firma!

Hatte ihn einst zusamm mit Stefan Giese kennengelernt und nur mal so am Rande, sind beide sehr nette und überaus kompetente Renn- und UScar-freunde. Bei technischen Problemen wären sie mein erster Anlaufpunkt.


Naja, nur mal soviel zum 'alten' "Tough-Enough"-Camaro. ;o)

Schönen Sonntag noch, Mirko

[Great8ride]

Hello there
What´s up with the pirmasens dragstrip, is there still a race?
Gruß Uli

[Christoph Nauck]

@Mirko
alles richtig - bis auf:
der Name vom Camaro wurde ( ich weiß : Klugsch.) TUFF ENUFF geschrieben ;-)
Gruß Christoph

[Klötzer Jungs]

@Christoph:

Na weißt doch...'uns' haben 'sie' im Osten nur Russisch gelehrt, da fällt einem das nicht einfach. ;-)

Hoff bis bald, 'Herr Tankstellen-Überfaller' und dabei in die Kamerakucker (Insider) ;o)

[440-6bbl]

Besitzer war damals Michael Klauer, hat ihn aber meines Wissens nach in die USA verkauft (Florida ?)

[Euro1320Racer]

Original von Great8ride
Hello there
What´s up with the pirmasens dragstrip, is there still a race?
Gruß Uli

Nahh, I think 97 was the last year run there. I think the burgermeister of Pirmasens didn't want anymore racing there after Benni (track announcer) and a bunch of Harley guys were invited one weekend.

Today there is just a bunch of grass growing where the helipad was. Traction there was horrible but it was still an opportunity to make some runs.

Will post a video of some of the bike racing too.

Benni, did you have long hair then? I think I remember you being there in riding leathers.