How,s it going everyone, really enjoy the chats and photo's you blokes put up, I have a bit of info on the Detroit Devil and the 1978 Drag Series. When I was 8 yrs old the old man brought me a Truckin Life magazine that is dedicated to the World cup Truck Drag Series 1978, heaps of great photo,s and there is also a write up on Rick Andrew's W model from Perth which was the quickest truck of the day at Castlereagh. It goes on to say his truck was the dark horse of the series, it was powered by an 892T GM at more than 400HP, had 2 six inch exhaust pipes direct from the engine aimed at the ground and had a habit of blasting soot, stones and grass at unsuspecting passers by. Also it makes mention that the owner was that determined to make it to the event that he worked on the old girl as it was being transported across the Nullabor on a semi owned by Barry Patterson. His best time of the day was an 18.305 over the quarter on a wet track,"the Kenworth bucked, slid sideways in a halo of steam and spray, got traction and howled down the track as if it had been fired from a giant bazooka. The article does say it may have put the wind up old Tyrone Malone, but he did beat the Kenworth at the end of the day. I tell you what you older blokes really knew how to have a good time, wish there was still active truck drags. At the moment I don't know how to put photo's on the forum, there's some cracka pictures in the magazine and I'd like to try and share them with everyone. By the way I have a 1973 S2 Challenger, was originally a 555 and 10spd, when I got the truck it had an L10 and 13spd, I'm in the process of fitting a 350 big cam and have converted a 9spd to 13. Also nearly finished an AT4 Dodge, 454 Chev and 4spd Auto on a Holden ute chassis, my 13 year old son has inherited from his grandfather a 265Hp Deutz with a 10spd ZF, he had it on float work and logs in the 70's and 80's. Hope you blokes can get some of your trucks down to the East Gippsland Heritage Truck Display, we don't have many truck events down here, it will be great to see some old banga's. Cheer's