OBSCURE RACER GETS HIGH PROFILE OPPORTUNITY
Wed, 2008-12-31 09:00
Roy Hill Drag Racing School Graduate Eric Gullett Presented With Unique Opportunity…
The low profile bracket racer from Chattanooga, Tenn., will begin licensing procedures next month in hopes of becoming a nostalgia Funny Car driver.
Gullett will make runs behind the wheel of Mitch King’s Fuel Altered. If that goes well, he could easily end up behind the wheel of either Henry Guttierrez’s restored Jungle Jim or Brand X AA/Funny Car entries.
The talk for now is that Gullett will become a back up driver for either Army Armstrong or Mitch King in the event of a scheduling conflict.
“We’ll be doing some match races and certainly be at the NHRA Hot Rod Reunions,” Gullett added. “These cars back in the day were all about showmanship and we want to give the fans their money’s worth. We want to pay tribute and have fun doing it.” Roy Hill Drag Racing School Graduate Eric Gullett Presented With Unique Opportunity…
The low profile bracket racer from Chattanooga, Tenn., will begin licensing procedures next month in hopes of becoming a nostalgia Funny Car driver.
Gullett will make runs behind the wheel of Mitch King’s Fuel Altered. If that goes well, he could easily end up behind the wheel of either Henry Guttierrez’s restored Jungle Jim or Brand X AA/Funny Car entries.
The talk for now is that Gullett will become a back up driver for either Army Armstrong or Mitch King in the event of a scheduling conflict.
“We’ll be doing some match races and certainly be at the NHRA Hot Rod Reunions,” Gullett added. “These cars back in the day were all about showmanship and we want to give the fans their money’s worth. We want to pay tribute and have fun doing it.”
Gullett says the opportunity is one that he’s excited about.
“Every once in a great while, something comes across your path that stops you dead in your tracks,” said Gullett, of Chattanooga, Tn. “It’s as if at that particular moment in time, your whole life has been preparing you for what lies directly ahead. Having been propositioned with the ultra-rare, once in a lifetime opportunity to strap myself into a 4,000 hp nitro fuel altered and try for my license is just such an occasion.”
There is a common belief than 99.9% of many drag racing opportunities come from being in the right place at the right time, and for Gullett, this is a totally accurate assessment.
Gullett works for Coker Tire as well as the legendary Honest Charley Speed Shop, a legend from the 1960s and 1970s in drag racing.
Honest Charley was a sponsor of Liberman for two seasons in the 1970s and while the legendary speed shop runs on a smaller profile than in decades past, the opportunity to partner with Guitterez provided Gullet with the opportunity to drive this incredible ride.
Guitterez met Gullett over the phone through the former’s daughter when he sent her searching for Phoenix Tires to go on their show version of the Jungle Jim ride to display at the NHRA Museum in Pomona, Ca.
The casual conversations of licensing in Mitch King’s altered and back up driving duties for Brand X went from random mention to a serious tone over the course of a few months.
“This is an amazing opportunity for Coker Tire and me to fully participate in nostalgia racing all the while building a formidable race tire business,” admitted Gullett. “Along with Phoenix, we also distribute M&H (the first drag tire, founded in 1954, and wildly popular with period correct drag racers), and are partners with Honest Charley Speed Shop. Look for a 1,2,3 sales and marketing plan that will maximize all of this history and relationships for 2009.”
Gullett was a professional competition cyclist prior to his involvement in drag racing.
The low profile bracket racer from Chattanooga, Tenn., will begin licensing procedures next month in hopes of becoming a nostalgia Funny Car driver.
Gullett will make runs behind the wheel of Mitch King’s Fuel Altered. If that goes well, he could easily end up behind the wheel of either Henry Guttierrez’s restored Jungle Jim or Brand X AA/Funny Car entries.
The talk for now is that Gullett will become a back up driver for either Army Armstrong or Mitch King in the event of a scheduling conflict.
“We’ll be doing some match races and certainly be at the NHRA Hot Rod Reunions,” Gullett added. “These cars back in the day were all about showmanship and we want to give the fans their money’s worth. We want to pay tribute and have fun doing it.” Roy Hill Drag Racing School Graduate Eric Gullett Presented With Unique Opportunity…
The low profile bracket racer from Chattanooga, Tenn., will begin licensing procedures next month in hopes of becoming a nostalgia Funny Car driver.
Gullett will make runs behind the wheel of Mitch King’s Fuel Altered. If that goes well, he could easily end up behind the wheel of either Henry Guttierrez’s restored Jungle Jim or Brand X AA/Funny Car entries.
The talk for now is that Gullett will become a back up driver for either Army Armstrong or Mitch King in the event of a scheduling conflict.
“We’ll be doing some match races and certainly be at the NHRA Hot Rod Reunions,” Gullett added. “These cars back in the day were all about showmanship and we want to give the fans their money’s worth. We want to pay tribute and have fun doing it.”
Gullett says the opportunity is one that he’s excited about.
“Every once in a great while, something comes across your path that stops you dead in your tracks,” said Gullett, of Chattanooga, Tn. “It’s as if at that particular moment in time, your whole life has been preparing you for what lies directly ahead. Having been propositioned with the ultra-rare, once in a lifetime opportunity to strap myself into a 4,000 hp nitro fuel altered and try for my license is just such an occasion.”
There is a common belief than 99.9% of many drag racing opportunities come from being in the right place at the right time, and for Gullett, this is a totally accurate assessment.
Gullett works for Coker Tire as well as the legendary Honest Charley Speed Shop, a legend from the 1960s and 1970s in drag racing.
Honest Charley was a sponsor of Liberman for two seasons in the 1970s and while the legendary speed shop runs on a smaller profile than in decades past, the opportunity to partner with Guitterez provided Gullet with the opportunity to drive this incredible ride.
Guitterez met Gullett over the phone through the former’s daughter when he sent her searching for Phoenix Tires to go on their show version of the Jungle Jim ride to display at the NHRA Museum in Pomona, Ca.
The casual conversations of licensing in Mitch King’s altered and back up driving duties for Brand X went from random mention to a serious tone over the course of a few months.
“This is an amazing opportunity for Coker Tire and me to fully participate in nostalgia racing all the while building a formidable race tire business,” admitted Gullett. “Along with Phoenix, we also distribute M&H (the first drag tire, founded in 1954, and wildly popular with period correct drag racers), and are partners with Honest Charley Speed Shop. Look for a 1,2,3 sales and marketing plan that will maximize all of this history and relationships for 2009.”
Gullett was a professional competition cyclist prior to his involvement in drag racing.
Categories:
