The nitromethane and methanol fueled historical Texas drag racing champions of the Texas Timing Association will fill the skies above North Texas with clouds of tire smoke and nitro fumes at the initial running of the Texas Thaw nostalgia drag race on February 23rd, 2008.

TXTA is proud to join The Torques Car Club of Dallas and the owners of Northstar Raceway in Denton in presenting the first of these annual events. The TXTA contingent will be led by the original Scorpion 5 AA/Fuel Dragster, winner of the Top Eliminator trophy at the 1964 National Championships. Other authentic race cars from back in the day include the 6-time national champion Widdle White Wabbit B/Altered (built in ‘56) and the classic El Toro B/Roadster from 1959. Two-thirds of the field of vintage cars will be running racing fuel, and half of them will have supercharged engines.

Come see how it used to be back in the golden days of drag racing, when many racers ran on nitromethane and methanol, dragster engines were right up front where you could keep an eye on ‘em, and the wild altered coupes and exciting short-wheelbase roadsters could steal the show at any time. They’ll fit right in with the street rods of the Torques and other vintage hot rods from all around the Southwest that will gather at Northstar Raceway for this very first Texas Thaw nostalgia race. Come see us all on February 23, 2008.

Ed Miller
Race Director
Texas Timing Association