American Baby Cancer Foundation A Real "Fun-raiser!" A great day (and night) of racing and car show action.

It was an all day and night affair on November 6th as Drag Corner Promotions hosted a fundraiser for the American Baby Cancer Foundation at the Irwindale Dragstrip. Activities included a car show, cacklefest, manufacturer's midway, kids activities, a great line up of exhibition cars and some great bracket racing, Manufacturer's Cup style. Four teams raced in a round robin format to earn points for their respective teams but also for round win prizes. At the end of the night Dale Raymond of Costa Mesa was crowned the overall champion and took home a cool $1,000.00 in cash! Tanner Poe was the other big winner taking the trophy and savings bond money in the jr. dragster category. Thanks to all those who participated and donated their time and money to help make this event such a great success. For more information regarding the American Baby Cancer Foundation go to: http://www.babycancer.org/.

Jeff DeGrandis was the Grand Marshall of the

event. Jeff is the Animation Producer and

Director for Nickelodeon as well as being the

official Ed "Big Daddy" Roth artist. Check out

his website at http://www.dragfink.com/

Driver's meeting....

The most celebrated car in NHRA history,

"The Winged Express."

Teresa had the Dodge R/T on the money all day!

"Girl Power" in the jr. dragster ranks.

Radke on a pass....

Kevin Houmard looking over his son's beautifully

prepared jr. dragster. Kevin's cars are always

show quality AND go fast!

Wyatt Radke on the return road. It looks like

he's on the way to the beach!

Eileen Pandelas in her 1965 Chevelle. Check out

the size of the meats in the back!

Kimberly Nocita had the opportunity to sit in

Bob Hansen's "Wynn's Spoiler" for the cacklefest.

.....Lucky!!!

...the "Kim's eye view!"

l to r, Bob Hansen, Kimberly and Debbie Nocita.

"Lil' Kass Heublein" A crew chief in the making!

One of the event sponsors and good friend,
"Ernie the Attorney" put on a great show for

the fans all day.

Ed Schwartz (l) and Bob Beck did fantastic job

calling all the action on and off the strip.

Marianne Chew and Lynn Christy worked countless

hours on the event and made sure everything

ran smoothly.

Grand Marshall Jeff DeGrandis and his family

being driven in the parade by AJ Nocita in the

"Donutz 1" 1959 Caddy.

Ron Johnson brought out some of his cackle cars.

Here the "Chizler" gets a push down the strip during

the parade.

Gordon "Lug Nutzz" Stewart with one of his

ABCF buds before heading down the strip in the

parade.

Friend of Drag Corner and "The Camfather",

Ed Iskenderian.

Kimberly Nocita did a beautiful job singing The

National Anthem. Her performance could only

be described as prayerful.

As The National Anthem concluded, "TV" Tommy

Ivo's car and the "Chizler" were pushed started

and squared off on the starting line for an exhibition

race, parachutes and all!!

Mike Boyd putting "The Wing" through it's

paces. Awesome.

Long time friend and volunteer Fred Trout

talking with Erica and Kimberly Nocita about

the day's activities.

The MCC event in Barona last June made a fan

of rock drummer Vinnie Appice. Earlier in the

day Vinnie sat in with the band and played a few

numbers that rocked!

Special Award recipient "Mousie" Marcellus with

trophy girl and alcohol funny car driver...that's

right, funny car driver, April Ortiz.

April with Jeff DeGrandis.

Nothin' like a rocket car at night!!!

Once again, Tony Franco in "Terminal

Velocity" set a new track mph at over 219 mph

on the 1/8 mile!! Tony, you're the man!

Tanner Poe, the jr. dragster champion, with

his family. Great job, Tanner!!

Overall champion Dale Raymond with Pete

Baleno and April Ortiz.

Billy "BJ" Stewart in Erica Nocita's '66 Chevy

Nova. Ford guy BJ must have enjoyed the day

and been in a good mood to sit in a Chevrolet.

Thanks BJ and Dale for all your help. What a

day!!!