John Reilly's Boss with a Valkyrie fairing and a VR2 Tranny

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Adrian

Discussion Starter · Mar 22, 2004

Got an e-mail from John and he says his beast flies with Vics Tranny a ton of tranny work. Valkyrie guys look him over also.

Adrian

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X-Ray

· #2 · Mar 22, 2004

Adrian,
Would you know if John is the brother of Craig Reilly back here in Pennsylvania?
Ray

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Adrian

Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 22, 2004

I know he has family back there so I will ask him.

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TJzz4

· #4 · Mar 22, 2004

Hey Adrian..... Welcome home. How did you do at the drags?

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fasteddie

· #5 · Mar 22, 2004

Ray - His brother owns a BAR in NJ, Colts Neck area, is what he told me.

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Tom
We had a good time at the drags and the car ran fair. Out of 26 cars we Qualified 7th and ran good but had to run the top car first round. Our best time was a 6.06 at 248 MPH so we were getting better. The car was there at the lights but we lost by a car length to a very fast car.
Cozaey and I had a good time in Az so when you get time come on over and try the trike out if you want.
Adrian

TJzz4 said:
Hey Adrian..... Welcome home. How did you do at the drags?

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TJzz4

· #7 · Mar 22, 2004

Thanks Adrian. We`ll have to get together soon. WOW!! 6.06 at 248.... Now that is putting them down there mighty quick. Sounds like you had a full week.
Are you going to do the sierra hope run in June?

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V-MAN

· #8 · Mar 22, 2004

Adrian said:
Tom
We had a good time at the drags and the car ran fair. Out of 26 cars we Qualified 7th and ran good but had to run the top car first round. Our best time was a 6.06 at 248 MPH so we were getting better. The car was there at the lights but we lost by a car length to a very fast car.
Cozaey and I had a good time in Az so when you get time come on over and try the trike out if you want.
Adrian

Wow 6.06/248 - congratulations Adrian! You have any pics of the car your running? I'd be interested is seeing/hearing more.

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Adrian

Discussion Starter · #9 · Mar 22, 2004

Wow 6.06/248 - congratulations Adrian! You have any pics of the car your running? I'd be interested is seeing/hearing more.[/quote]

This is a AA/Top fuel Nostalgia Dragster and should be running around 5.85 at 158 mph
Here is a shot of the car doing a burn out. I have some new ones and it looks mean as ever. The owner and I were in the Navy together, we were partners in Speed Shops and have raced top fuel cars forever.
Picture on the right is your's truly (guy with all the hair) ha ha.

Adrian

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X-Ray

· #10 · Mar 22, 2004

Adrian & Fasteddie,
It really is a small world, Curt is the other brother in Colt's Neck NJ, and I guess John is the only one I don't know. In any case I'm sure John is a great guy like his brothers back east......Ray

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Adrian

Discussion Starter · #11 · Mar 22, 2004

X-Ray said:
Adrian & Fasteddie,
It really is a small world, Curt is the other brother in Colt's Neck NJ, and I guess John is the only one I don't know. In any case I'm sure John is a great guy like his brothers back east......Ray

John is a good guy and does well in construction. He had his share of problems with the Tranny so he got the VR2 and had trouble with it, but I guess it is all OK, at least I hope so.

Adrian

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V-MAN

· #12 · Mar 23, 2004

Adrian said:
Wow 6.06/248 - congratulations Adrian! You have any pics of the car your running? I'd be interested is seeing/hearing more.

This is a AA/Top fuel Nostalgia Dragster and should be running around 5.85 at 158 mph
Here is a shot of the car doing a burn out. I have some new ones and it looks mean as ever. The owner and I were in the Navy together, we were partners in Speed Shops and have raced top fuel cars forever.
Picture on the right is your's truly (guy with all the hair) ha ha.

Adrian[/quote]

Adrian

That is very cool

I would really like to see more pictures. Is there a website for the car? If you don't want to post here you can send me the links or pics to my e-mail [email protected]

Don

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Adrian

Discussion Starter · #13 · Mar 23, 2004

Here is the web page that we have. You can look up Chuck Tanko and read about the car. We don't have a person to keep the site up to date but we will someday.

Adrian

http://aafd-inc.com/member-cars/.shtml

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V-MAN

· #14 · Mar 23, 2004

Thanks - going to take a look right now!

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Desert Deuce

· #15 · Mar 24, 2004

Adrian

Are you familiar with a young gun Sean Bellemeur? I think he's driving a B Fuel nostalgia dragster this year. His dad Gregg and I go back more than 30 years when Gregg was driving an altered and later a Div 7 alcohol dragster.

They started with an nostalgia alcohol car and are in the process of building an alcohol */C to run in NHRA Div 7.

Desert Deuce

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