Back in the 80's I did the clutches and rearend maintanence on a top alchohol dragster.

The company I work for sponsored a Top Fuel car for the last 5 years, the driver was Clay Millican. Well after winning his 2nd IHRA Championship. THe Team brought the T/F dragster to our home office and fired it up for the CEO. Well, it was raining that day and they pulled the car into a building so they could make the presentation of the trophy to our CEO.
Well, I was standing there and was watching them spin up the motor befor eturning on the ignition. All of the people around me were edging in closer to see what was going on. The 6000 hp motor fired up and they about jumped out of their skins. I just stood there smiling thinking that you aint seen nothing yet.

Then, they turned on the 2nd pump and switch to Nitro, the old feelings started to come back. The eyes burned, ears rang, chest pounding. I looked around because I knew that a huge Burp was coming. Just as they burped the motor, people were starting to run away as they couldn't handle the fumes and the noise. I just stood there and smiled.

It got this old tired heart a pumping and I had a smile on my face for the rest of the day.

Well, thats about enough of my rambling for now.