Pepsi Nightfire Nationals 2001

Shep Ginzberg brought this bright green machine to the Nightfires from Thousand Oaks, CA. (68,966 bytes)The Arlington WA Fiat driven by Randy Bradford. (72,828 bytes)A broken mag made for a spectacular flame show Saturday night. (69,504 bytes)The famed Orange Crate driven by Roger Lechtenberg from Cedar Falls, Iowa. (101,001 bytes)The Crate goes up in smoke beside Ginzberg. (31,180 bytes)
From Lockport Illinois came the Drastic Plastic '37 Dodge AA/FA wheeled by Greg Debelliehn. (41,269 bytes)Mike Boyd can't believe his eyes as he bruns out past a flaming Bradford. (63,234 bytes)The greatest AA/FA of all time under the lights at Firebird. (77,032 bytes)Ron Fassel from Scotsdale Arizona wheeld the world's quickest and fastest AA/FA to a win here Sunday night. (66,028 bytes)Here he is on that final run. (45,868 bytes)
This was the bad boy on Saturday night. (59,254 bytes)Greg Daebelliehn of Bakersfield in the Fast n' Forty Fiat. (58,699 bytes)Launching on into the night... (36,680 bytes)Butch Blair won the whole tamale defeating the best cars in the biz. (58,876 bytes)Here's Ginzberg laying down a long, flaming burnout. (61,754 bytes)
You gotta love it! (76,260 bytes)Billy Harper was runner-up in Pro Mod. (44,287 bytes)Harris had gone two years without a loss here. (143,571 bytes)Blair beside the brand new ride of Jim Murphy. (58,744 bytes)Looking good on this Saturday night 6.50/213 that qualified him fourth. (38,508 bytes)
Just one bad-ass car. The feared small-block Chevy powered Champion Spped Shop Special. (43,021 bytes)Hooking big in front on massive saturday evening crowd. Look for driver Rance McDaniel and John Rodek in Alberta on the hogs next week. (70,979 bytes)Gary Ready's friday night run was a 6.04/226, but the chutes got caught up on the wheelie bar and damaged the body. (49,570 bytes)Ricky Ruiz on the way to his first five in an altered. (65,282 bytes)The VooDoo car of Mike Lockman. (48,739 bytes)
Looking strong, but his best of 7.92 did not make the show. (100,575 bytes)