That was a great moment! To see my Son and our history of Drag Racing culminate in that one moment was awesome.
69 EL CAMINO BURNOUT TV
I have a picture of Austin leading a race that was broadcast on Motormania TV during the IHRA World Finals. One of those moments was when we won a track Championship at Knoxville Dragstrip together and another was when we raced in the World Finals. The finest moments I’ve ever had in Drag Racing were with Austin. Austin always knew that I had the same drive to win as he did and that he had a Crew Chief with experience working on his car. I hope I’ve passed some of those skills to my son as well. My Dad loves Drag Racing and he passed that to me. He credits his father for his work ethic, “My Dad taught me a lot about working on cars and sometimes he let me figure it out on my own. He has done his racing the hard way with no sponsors, few tools and elbow grease. I believe those days of trying to make my own cars faster and more competitive gave me the knowledge and abilities to be a good Crew Chief for him.”īoger never really had a crew except for family and friends. I’ve enjoyed watching him race as much as I have enjoyed racing myself. He started at 9 years old and like me, was immediately hooked. “I’ve carried the love of Drag Racing, loud engines, tire smoke and competition through the years and when my son, Austin, came along, we decided to let him try it out in a Jr. His love for the sport was eventually handed down to his son Austin who became a championship racer in the Jr. All was forgiven though as most Drag Racers understand those things happen and many times will offer you parts off of their own cars to help you compete.” I pretty much ruined the track for the rest of the night with transmission fluid on the starting line.
I had blown a transmission line coming out of the burnout box and transmission fluid was squirting all over the headers. It wasn’t tire smoke everyone was seeing. I thought to myself, Wow, you’ve really shown everybody what a real burnout is like.Ī hand came through the smoke telling me to kill the engine. I had just completed the burnout and was feeling pretty good about it There was smoke everywhere. Boger also talked about his worst moment ever at the track, “My worst moment ever in racing was in built Chevy Nova. It was a close race but I won.”īoger found out that when he got his first winning time slip that he was subject to the fast car addiction. It had a Corvette engine in it and would run pretty fast. The first time I got to race at the track was at Farmington Dragstrip which was only about 15 minutes from my house. I never encourage this but times were different then. Our racing was usually done on a empty side road or streets at night. We didn’t go to the dragstrip to start with. I had very few tools and no shop so all the hot rodding was outside and usually laying on the ground in the heat or cold.”īoger went in to say, “It didn’t matter, I wanted to go fast. That’s when I learned about cams, porting & polishing heads, rear-end gears, and cubic inches. With the Galaxie being a big, heavy car, I was automatically at a disadvantage. As with most car guys, all of my friends were fixing up Hot Rods too and trying to see who could be the fastest. My first car was a Red 1965 Ford Galaxie with a Big Block in it. He was immediately drawn to fast cars because his father had a 1968 Chevelle and his mom drove a 1968 Plymouth GTX.īoger talked about his childhood, “By the time I was 14, I had my nose stuck in Hot Rod magazines dreaming of owning one of those beautiful, fast cars. Bryan Boger is the son of Franklin & Linda Boger of Mocksville, North Carolina.īryan Boger currently lives in Claiborne County and he credits his parents for his extreme love of cars.
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