North vs. South

Yeah.

Hey, welcome to Horsepower. We're kicking it off from Piedmont Dragway

and advise you to sit down, buckle up and hold on to something.

It's the north,

the south shootout

and it might get messy.

Ladies

and gentlemen,

tonight, the second annual $50,000 big dog challenge, it all began with a battle of words between the eight mile track's owner, Bob Big dog, Harris and racing. Great. Pat me

before long, the first uncivil war of drag racing was underway,

a field of pro street racers from the north

taking on the top southern dogs from Harris's home track.

The inaugural shootout was the fiercest battle since the real civil war

memories of it have haunted one racer ever since

you see it was down to the finals when the South's Todd Tuo

lost to Northern Invader, Mark

d'antoni by a few 1000th of a second.

That's

all

right.

We'll get next

year.

So here we are one year later and Todd's back this time with a jury house built Mustang with a supercharged Chevy engine,

a power package you'll use to hopefully avenge last year's failure. You obviously are the man to beat Todd. You got the track record here.

That must have been great. But

what do you think your chances are, I think are pretty good. I feel confident we got real good parts and everything. I

mean,

I feel real good about it.

Just look out

for,

here's what we're gonna tell him. Take a good look at the front of these green cars if he pulls up there because he's gonna see plenty of the back. So if he wants to see the front, he might want to check it in the station area.

No brothers down $50,000 only right here beat my driveway.

Thursday night's qualifying was a heart pounding spectacle in itself.

Fortunately, nobody got hurt even in this cross lane, crash

in round one. Mui

momentarily silenced the local crowd with a 428 et

capturing top qualifying honors,

but it didn't last long cutter

staged his power pony and made his quickest ones ever. 422 then a 419

and the whole fans whipped wild.

The air is good for a blower car tonight. It's really gonna look good tonight Saturday. Probably slow down. Some.

Are you proud of this guy?

Yes,

very much so,

I

think we got a great chance. We got

Turo and Rick Moore and me and a bunch of other tough guys.

Meanwhile, for the north, it's

C d'antoni one and two guys. What's it gonna take to catch this tter

old guy over here?

Well, we don't uh, pay attention to qualifying much. I mean, other than our position, I mean, naturally you want to run fast. But,

you know, we're Race Day guys. I think we're gonna put a lot of pressure on him.

You know, me and Pat are pretty much hoping one of us gets him first.

There's a chance one out of the two of us will get him, but whoever does get him will have a tough battle on his hands if he thinks he's gonna win.

Well, here we are showdown day in the north versus the South shootout one more round of qualifying. And then it's dog eat dog for $50,000. The southern racers may have,

this is their home track, but I just met one of them who's lucky to be here at all.

It was here at Pete Mud Dragway just a few months ago that Donny Krasinski came to race his Camaro

suddenly starting line of freak ni

explosion and Donnie is trapped inside this horrible inferno for 14 seconds.

This is

like 14 seconds. Got like 14 minutes

shook me up a little bit. But I mean, you know, it's just like a horse, you gotta get back on it.

It just uh burnt my forehead where I had my shield up. And that's about the only thing at first.

The man upstairs, he

left me here for a reason.

The last round of qualifying ended with

TAO and UC still number one. And number two,

the stage was set for the four rounds of eliminations of the drag racing war between the states.

Ok. Will the South get revenge or will history repeat itself? We'll find out after the break, don't you go away?

This is a, a

drag trip special right here.

South.

I'm hoping to have to put a new set of bleachers in for next year because I think if the South wins, they'll probably te these games,

$50,000 can change a lot of people's life.

It's not like we're gonna run for 5000 and we were running for 2000. We're running for a nice trophy. We're running for 50,000 bucks real money

and it's winner take all. It's not, we're dividing it out amongst everybody.

Uh Not only that bragging rights, this is about, I want to be the big dog. I wanna be the man for 2004 and I want $50,000 put in my checking account

in first round eliminations. Tarrow posted another 419 sending Hank Hill back to his trailer.

D'antoni took to the weeds, beating the South Charles Harris

and in a huge upset, William Brown downs Pat

M's tire shaking Pontiac by 900.

Revenge was sweet in the semis.

Astuter

lays down another 419 to easily put away last year's champ d'antoni

heading into the finals against the North's Tony.

Ok. Two racers left two trophies only once for the winner though. Who's it gonna be.

We're feeling pretty good.

Uh, we're running pretty good and the tracks pretty good and

we're pretty evil with

tuo one win to me, one win to him. So, this is a tiebreaker.

Yeah, I was pretty pumped up on that one.

What's it gonna take now? What do you do? What's the plan?

I just go back out there and try to do my routine deal there

a little night. I

think it will be good enough.

And your uncle come on again. I guess that's part of the secret, isn't it?

I make a lot of laughs in a year. I'll probably make three hour laps in a year. I

make

three.

We are in the big dog

race, Jim Till

is,

there's

about to

fire it up. So with all Southern fingers crossed the big moment.

J

Teel cuts a quicker light but Todd Teow

quickly passes him on his way to another incredible 419

avenging last year's heartbreaking loss and he's now $50,000 richer.

Thank you. Thank you. That's what they call the South. Get her done.

So at least until next year, the South reigns and the biggest new, old rivalry

and the record

one and one

in the one and only big dog shootout.

You'll be

proud.

Hey, welcome back. You know, for a lot of guys, muscle cars like this. 69 mach one are. What true performance is all about. A

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For instance,

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There's nothing like re chroming to bring a bumper back to life on a project car. We're like this PTO here.

But when it comes to all the trim pieces like this rocker molding

man, you could spend a fortune at the chrome shop. But if you're willing to spend a little time and a lot of elbow grease,

you can make this baby like new and save a lot of money

here. She is Greg. Let her get started now.

All right. Well, Joe, the first thing we need to do is identify the highs and lows. Uh We can do that in two different ways. One, we could actually go with a visual check

or we could actually use a file.

The first thing we need to do is lightly slide this file across this piece of stainless.

And now we have where the dull spots is our highs

and any other shiny spots will be a low, you file it and get down into the bottom. Now, we need to get into sanding

to sand it. I'd like to start out with 80 grids

and then we'll move to 120

then probably up to 320.

Ok? And after 320 the, the Buffalo should take out those scratches.

All right. Good job on that area. Greg looks ready to b but I'm not gonna let you off the hook so easy.

Now,

this one here on the edge, this little spot looks like a lot more of a challenge.

It definitely is.

OK. What we got is a lip in here. Now, we need

to somehow get a tool back in there to push this back out. So

as you can see on this side, it has been pushed in from something, maybe a stone chip or something like that.

So now we need to get that pushed up.

I'm gonna grab

this tool here. This is actually a slapping spoon,

but just because I like the tip of it.

I wanna get down into that edge. I'm gonna use this tool for that job.

Let me pull this up here.

Get the hammer out

and see if we can push this down a little bit.

Great work. Getting those stents out, Greg. It's all smooth and ready to buff. What's first?

All right. The first thing we wanna do, Joe is we wanna use

uh an

Emory

compound. OK. We guys are gonna apply this

on to what they call a sle wheel.

Ok.

The sle wheel,

the main purpose of this wheel is to get rid of some of the scratches and finally marks that we've previously made.

Ok.

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All right, Greg. Let's check out what you got here.

Oh, man. Now, just check out the difference in this and

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