http://www.afterburnercollectables.com "Own a piece of the fire" Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:17:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How many superlatives does it take to describe three days of racing at the Nightfire Nationals??  Incredible! Awesome! Fantastic! Our weekend began with a display of the Warhawk at Economy Transmissions on Overland Blvd, and then also at Key Bank in Emmett.  Dan at Economy - you have done ... http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2010/08/boise-nightfire-nationals-2010/ For a little while there, we weren't sure if we would be running in Spokane at all!  We hit some pretty good rain storms on the way in (okay, I don't remember a great deal about them-Gregg was driving and I was sleeping but I take his word for it ... http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2010/08/spokane-2010/ Ah, Summer....When you can feel the heat baking into your bones, a fire at night as it starts to cool off.....oh, wait-that's a Jet Car!  Well, we did have a couple of elements of summer with us on the 4th. We did have our barbeque and we had our homemade ... http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2010/07/happy-4th-of-july/ Saturday at Sacrament Raceway Park was a banner night for Warhawk! Our first run came in with a 6.142 @ 255.316 BUT......on the second run Derek and Warhawk set a new top speed of 271.196 with an ET of 6.059! It was the topping to an incredible weekend. For a while ... http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2010/06/new-top-speed-for-warhawk/ for a while-our home computer has problems and we are diligently trying to fix the little begger but not having much luck.  I can't convince myself to actually buy a new computer, but I also can't convince myself to spend half the price of a new computer on having someone work ... http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2010/05/weve-been-missing/ Woohoo!!!  We get to run at the Night of Fire on September 25, 2010 at Rocky Mountain Raceway in Salt Lake City (okay, Magna.  Sort of West  Valley City.  Outside Salt Lake, east of the Oquirrh Mountain, west of the Wastatch Mountains, south of Ogden and north of Provo but ... http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2010/02/salt-lake-city-2010/ Spring is coming!  Well, at least some of the snow is melting, anyway.  At this time, most everything is just tentative, but possibilities abound!  So, in the spirit of possibilities, a partial and tentative schedule: BC Custom Car Show - Abbotsford, BC, Canada - April 23rd, 24th and 25th (http://www.bccustomcarshow.com/) Sacramento - ... http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2010/02/tentative-schedule/ We finally did it!  We are now on Facebook.  It has taken a little while but hopefully we can keep up with all the friends and fans who come to visit us.  Hope to hear from you soon! http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2010/01/facebook/ We are investigating creating a 2010 Calendar featuring photos of the Warhawk Jet Funny Car in action.  If you would be interested in seeing this item available for sale, please email us at sales@afterburnercollectables.com.  We are looking for vendors presently to see what the price might be on such an ... http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2009/12/2010-calendars-product-survey/ Wow...it is hard to believe that the year is over already.  Time to clean out the rig.  We can actually store the coolers now, instead of tripping over them in the garage between races lol.  Time for Warhawk to get her winter "makeover", which includes a new tailpipe this year.  ... http://www.afterburnercollectables.com/2009/10/ending-the-year-phoenix-firebird-raceway/