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 Bill Horton

West Hartford CT

50

5/6

 

 

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1998

Dan Page Dragster

 

Super

7.941

166.50

 

Precision AutomotiveSimsbury CT

 

Chevrolet Bowtie

572

Callies

?

Crower billet

?

11:1

Dart 360

Jesel

Weiand

1250 Holley HP

Mallory

Na

 

NA

 

Powerglide by H&H Transmissions

Select

 

MW Ford 4:30 gears

 

MSD 7AL3

 

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Dan Page

 

NA

NA

NA

Weld

Goodyear

Never 

NA

NA

NA

Weld

Goodyear

Mark Williams

 

 

 

Racing Accomplishments

  1995 Super Chevy Show, New England Dragway, 9 top ten finishes at LVD, best finish of 2nd, beating Mike Fitts and Jeff Tisdale and Grant Nichols (at least once).

Sponsors

Stone Insurance Agency race car insurance program; Spaide-Kuipers fulfillment consulting Haskell NJ, WAMMAC web consulting Cincinnati OH, H&H Transmissions

Questions


How long have you been drag racing?  Going on 19 years; involved in sport since 1967

How did you get your start?   Track photographer at Connecticut Dragway

What’s been the biggest challenge to your racing program this season?  Compared to last season?  The driver has mental blockage.  Also some early chassis problems hurt reaction time consistency

What would you consider your biggest accomplishments as a racer?   Won 1995 Super Chevy show at New England Dragway

What’s gotten you hooked on the drag racing scene?   Been so long I don’t remember.

What are your plans for the future?   Might as well do it now because I’m not going to when I’m seventy and in a retirement community

What advice would you give to someone looking to start out?   Find someone sane and competent to give you advice so you waste as little time and money as you can.  ALSO take your time, save the money and do it right.  In the long run quality is the most important thing when it comes to your parts, and its safer, too.

Who are your biggest friends (or enemies) at the track?   Daco, Mike Fitts, Jeff Tisdale.  If I have any enemies I don’t know who they are, although Dick Copertino put quite the whuppin’ on me in 2007.

Who do you fear having to see at the starting line?  Why? Dave McClellan’s Pinto; the car is impossible to drive against at the top end.

Very briefly, tell me the dumbest mistake you've ever made at the race track?   I make at least one per week.  They’re all dumb and just when you think they can’t get dumber, they do.

Anyone you’d like to thank, wives you HAVE to thank, other things not mentioned you feel are important?   Thanks to Daco for teaching me everything I know.  Which is more than it looks.

What music do you listen to?  Who’s your favorite?   Springsteen/Southside etal; shore music.  Also Phish, Grateful Dead, Garland Jeffries, Graham Parker, Marshall Crenshaw, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, others.  Two favorites thru the years are Bruce and Graham.

Any nick names for you?   More than I can count.  Up here, Wild Bill is what I get to my face.  Heaven knows what they say when I’m not there to hear it!

Do you have any pets?   Not my own, but I adopted Socks, Joe Vitetta’s dog.  We’re the same color so we must be related.

Do you have Kids?   God no.

What do you like to do as a hobby outside of drag racing?  .Lots of hobbies.  Golf, model building, reading, photography, riding my bike, fine food & wine, military history, movies.

What track do you dislike the most?   Any with a bumpy shutdown area.

Which is your favorite track to race on   Maple Grove (maybe because of the Shady Maple…)

Do you have a lucky charm?  What is it?   No, but its not a bad idea. I could use one, anyone have any suggestions?

If you could meet anybody you wanted living or not who would it be?  Why . I’ll give you several.  Lou Reed, the smartest guy to ever play rock and roll, I’d ask him to explain what all the songs I don’t get are about.  Don Cheadle, the best actor on the planet, to find out how he gets such consistently great roles.  Bruce Springsteen, to find out if it was really me in one of his songs (yes, there is one with a Bill Horton in it) and last, Ashley Force, the only one I’d want to take to dinner and a movie.

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