Troy and I were racing his VW in E/G at a West Coast Hod Rod Association night race at SpeedWorld the night this record was broken. It was almost 2 AM! We were the only VW racing that night when The Red Barron team pulled into the staging lanes, laughing. We knew immediately what they were up to, "testing" in Arizona. They looked over at the "VW Paradise" sponser decal on the side of our car and said "what are you guys doing over here"? The answer was "we race all the West Coast Hot Rod races", what are you doing here, entered into B/G (a 8.60 index), knowing they really wanted to run almost a full second quicker than the 8.60 B/G index? They knew their surprise was out and we would be calling The Lauffers "If they broke the record". Troy made that call at 2 AM! LOL

We were pitted next to one of the A/G teams that night. They had a "full on, pro built" 1963 Corvette, It was a "very nice" car. I'd bet it was $100K plus. They were having problems getting it to run the 7.90 A/G class index. When we got back to our pit to load up at the end of the evening they asked.........So........How much horsepower does it take to make a "air cooled", "four cylinder", VW run in the sevens? We said "about 1100" as an educated guess. They just shook their heads in disbelief.

Short of winning our NHRA Wally at Pomona, it was the best VW racing nights I can remember. It's pretty cool racing a Vintage VW at a V8 event and having one of the cars run a 7 second world record.