John Stanley In The Top 20 On DragList.com
All Time Quickest 1/8th Mile Doorslammers
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A brilliant start to the season for Stanley and Weiss Racing is the recognition on The Draglist for last years efforts By John Stanley "a proven championship driver" starting with a brand new car and being the underdog with one of the non Hemi powered supercharged warriors taking top rankings of showmanship in the ADRL and Shakedown at E Town venues.
The Draglist is one of if not the most informational websites in the world, following racers and allowing racers to keep a dedicated resume' of their racing online in a fun but detailed environment heavily watched by Bill Pratt and the rest of the team for quality and accuracy.
The standing of John Stanley is one that should be prized by all, "The little Camaro that could" showed well after only a few hits on the car it ran an astounding 1/8 Mile ET: 3.765 @ 202.06 at Rockingham ADRL 09/09.
You can find the statistics of both John Stanley and all your favorite teams under the heading they so perfectly described as "Outlaw Pro Mods, Aussie Top Doorslammers, Super Chevy Nitro Coupes". Throw out the rule book baby, these are the fastest doorslammers in the world! See John Stanleys Ranking On DragLists All Time Quickest And Fastest Here:
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Stanley And Weiss Racing, Looking Badder Than Ever In 2010 !!
 The Team of Stanley and Weiss Racing will be looking sharper than ever with new Crew Shirts featuring the scary skull and crossbones with the signature flames found on the Camaro Pro Mod. The team will be debuting their new garb at all the ADRL associated races and other Outlaw Pro Modified Racing Venues in 2010 making sure you will notice them at each and every race.
Stateline Sporting Goods takes on the challenge of providing these awesome shirts and was established in 1979 as a small part time family business. Over the past years, Stateline has become known worldwide and is located in Athens, Alabama. The Association of cool looking wear and the bad, blown Camaro will surely make you sit up and take notice of this championship team in the coming series of races to be announced soon.
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Its GREAT being me!
Trekking Across The Globe To New Zealand
By Camp Stanley
 There is no off season when you are an old retired guy getting to do what you love all the year around! I have been lucky enough to make a lot of friends internationally over the last 20 plus years that has enabled me to have the ability to travel the world far and wide unlimited. From my first international drag racing experience in 1988 to the world Down Under, Australia to the far vast continent of Africa in the early 1990's, I continue to enjoy it all.
I have been able to learn an awful lot about the violent unpredictable cars we live for over the last 30 years. Yes, I did say 30 years! My first blown door car was created in 1978. How about a Hillborn four port on gasoline and 427 Chevy? Then throw in an automatic transmission and bracket racing. Add to that mix someone who had no idea what he was doing with the entire package. But persevere I did, spending an entire summer learning how NOT to run a blown door car! But it was on from there! From that bracket car all the way up to and including the The Wild Bunch years. These were the years that the Pro Mods of today were born. I will never forget those years that we were dubbed the a$$holes with the blower cars! And now look at how far it has come. Don't you just love it! What goes around comes around!
 But I digress. This winter has seen me venture off to the beautiful country of New Zealand "land of the long white cloud" yet again to help an old friend Mark Vincent and his crew with their new JanCen Engines prepped roots blower combination.
Their alcohol dragster was in need of an injection of horsepower if it was to compete with the old guy on the block in their class.
 Mark entrusted the running of the car, driven by his son to me as he had to be at a trade show in the states for his RPM International tool and die company. After being picked up at the International terminal in Auckland by Mark's eldest son Todd it was off to the factory to set up the car for the next day's unlimited testing.
 The Saturday dawned bright and sunny that lasted long enough for us to get one lousy 40 foot shot in before the clouds opened up.
And so that ended that adventure. But at least we had secured a baseline for Mark to come back and tune from.
 So it was on to Wanganui with my long time friend Dave Green with a stopover for the night in the beautiful little town of Taupo. After a nice restful night of sleep we soldiered on down the highways and byways of the North Island, eventually finding our way to Grant Rivers Speed and Spares.
This was to be my second stop over to delve into that which I love, setting up blown motor combinations.
Grant had purchased the JanCen prepped K8 Kobelco Superman blower and injector combination and the clutch from Da Orange Ho's street racing days.
 He had reinvented his alcohol funny car and was ready to venture forth to Meremere for some testing in a few weeks. With that chore and Clutch setup 101 school completed over several days it was off to the large bustling airport of Wanganui, New Zealand.
 A short hop to Auckland, and then several hours spent getting a canceled flight rebooked found me back In Sydney for one night before leaving for home the next day.
Sean Mifsud, he of Wild Willy fame picked me up at the airport and we went to his workshop to view the updates of the Willys. He is going to be a player in the Australian Doorslammer wars in 2010! The screw cars best be aware!
The next day saw me depart on the first leg of my journey home after some more great hospitality Down Under. This entire journey takes on average of 28-30 hours of travel time from my home to touchdown in Sydney. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
And now you see why I say: "It's GREAT being me!"
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A Racer's Work Is Never Done
 The Stanley & Weiss racing team's season is over and the beautiful 1968 ADRL Extreme Pro Modified Camaro is stashed away in John's garage in a bazillion pieces.
It is in the midst of its updates for the 2010 racing season.
We have dismantled the car front to back, top to bottom, updating some things and fixing others that we found wrong here and there.
Then it will be off to Mike Janis' "Jan-Cen Racing Engines" speed emporium in Buffalo, NY to get the block and crank checked and to have Joe Janis work his magic on the non hemi heads! We are not changing much of anything for the new season. We just want to correct the few anomalies we had at the end of the year. You cannot do well going out first round time after time! BUT our plan for 2010 is to go rounds and to make our way to a final and win a race if the racing gods decide to smile upon us and we have earned it!
 The PRI show in Orlando was a bit more low key than normal with the economy affecting so many things and so many people. It showed everywhere but at the "Howl at the Moon" Saloon Thursday night. The old saying "and a grand time was had by all" most definitely applied that night. Both John and I walked the aisles for 2 days and we got to thank the many companies and their representatives who have helped us with sponsorships and continue to do so. It was good to visit with every one of them without the pressures of a racetrack.
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Christmas Card With Our Best Wishes
 | And now we at Stanley & Weiss Racing want to be very politically UNCORRECT and wish a very MERRY CHRISTMAS And a Joyous New Year To one and all!
May there be happiness and win lights in everyone's 2010 future and may Santa bring each and every one of you all that you desire in life.
Sincerely,
The Team Of Stanley And Weiss Racing
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Team Stanley And Weiss Racings Finale'
The Year In Review
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After our failed attempt at a $20,000 payday at The Shakedown at Etown its time to sit back and look at quick snapshot of the 2009 season for Stanley & Weiss Racing.
It definitely did not start off well for the team and our brand new 1969 Tim McAmis Camaro that was purchased from, of all places, Racing Junk.com! Don't laugh, this car is living, breathing proof that "The Deal" is out there waiting for someone to find it! All it takes is a stroke of luck, be willing to pay the agreed on price and have a friend out there in cyberspace to certify that it is what is professed to be! That must be followed up by an honest person willing to take your Benjamin's!
The very first hit on the car saw the new piece bounced off the wall about 100 feet out! Only John Stanley's quick thinking and driving skills saved it from being a lot worse than it could have, should have been! After John's brother Raymond, his friend Richard and Tim Fraker Race Graphics repaired the battle scars, it was off to the home of the blues, Memphis, Tennessee. We had put Memphis on the schedule so we decided, to heck with it, let's just go! When the smoke cleared after qualifying we ended up 18th with 3.91! On only the 2nd full hit on the car.
So it was off to Richmond, Virginia next to see if maybe, just maybe we had what it takes with our new car to REALLY "swim amongst the sharks". Our test hit early on Friday yielded us a shut off run after the car was not lined up straight. Another part of our learning curve with a state of the art car. And then it was into qualifying Friday night and did we qualify well or what!!! The aptly named, it soon became evident, "Appalachia on Steroids" Camaro went, to quote the ADRL Prez, right by the 80's with a booming 3.79 qualifying run!!! John may have lost a close race to Todd Tutterow in the 2nd round but we left Virginia happy, happy, happy!
Next up was St Louis, Missouri the home of our "financial advisor" (we need me more cash!) and friend William Craig Weiss, better known as Axle to all in the drag racing fraternity. The 3500 feet of air did not bother the Camaro as it laid down a qualifying run right out of the box 1st round. John got a bit upside down mentally in the first round and left a BIG red light on the tree against Bubba Stanton. (Thanks Roger Henson, but he did pay me!) And then it was on to Columbus, Ohio, the scene of lots of our successes during the street car wars. We again laid down a number in the 1st round that would not get us booted from The Show. John redeemed himself well in the 1st round when his 80 flat got to the finish line before Todd Tutterow's 78. Next up he put a needed .027 bulb on the young phenom Jason Hamstra and took the win light as well. In the semis it was Josh Hernandez and his Bad-Azz 57 Chevrolet. At the flash of the yellow John had .06 in the bank and although he had a car on Josh at the 60 foot marker it was not enough to hold off Josh's 74 run!
At the Rockingham Drag Stock meeting the Stanley and Weiss Camaro again showed why it can no longer "fly below the radar screen" of all the racers. Our 2nd round qualifying run of 3.76 at over 202 MPH showed everyone we were a force to be reckoned with. A first round loss AGAIN when the car rolled the beams ended our day, but we left there the world's quickest AJ Olds car to the 1/8th in the world!
At the season ending Texas race in Ennis is when it started for us! What you may ask? That very same thing that bites one and all somewhere, sometime! The "Stuff Happens" syndrome. The first round qualifier AGAIN left us solidly in the field but it was all downhill after that! "Luck of the draw" they call it and it was all craps for us! ANOTHER 1st round loss left us starting the 2010 season in the 12th points position. Although it's not too bad considering there were 49 other cars in the mix!
This brings us to this past weekend in Englishtown, New Jersey. This was the 2nd in a row of "what the heck just happened to us" racing weekends. A mechanical gremlin bit us 1st round and then again 2nd round of qualifying. A 1st round loss against Tommy Gray showed us another thing we MUST fix this winter.
Thanks again to all our loyal friends and supporters. You help us keep marching onward and upward!
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And So It Ends For The ADRL Season
Heading To The Shakedown At E'Town For Our Finale'ADRL Drag Racing
 The 2009 ADRL season came to end for the Stanley and Weiss Racing team in the flatlands of Texas this past weekend. We have sat and analyzed our endeavors amongst the best this country has to offer in a class made up of the world's quickest and fastest door cars, Pro Extreme. And we have decided that we did just fine for a "bunch of Rednecks" out of Appalachia. Our little one car concrete block garage has put forth a car that has been competitive right out of the box this year. A best of 3.76 at 202+ in 2009 has proven we are now most definitely able to swim amongst the sharks!
Although we had an early first round loss in the not so favored left lane, we did qualify tenth out of 49 cars! Those guys and gals down in that neck of the woods must breed Pro Extreme cars in their backyards! And competitive ones as well!!!
And so we headed back home to Appalachia to prepare the "Appalachia on steroids" Camaro for the rescheduled Shakedown at E Town 2009. There we will end our year and then plan a well deserved rest for John, Scott and Jimmy for several months.
For a change the Camaro will only be getting a few minor changes over the winter. We shall see everyone in the ADRL in Baytown in March.
Enjoy your holidays, one and all!!!
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The Wrobles or The Rubbles ???
All Walks Of Life Can Enjoy ADRL Drag Racing
 The ADRL race in Ennis, Texas "Texas Motorplex" this past weekend has given pause to those that say free tickets don't always draw people from "all walks of life". This past weekend William Craig Weiss, better known as "Axle" in the Doorslammer drag racing world invited his longtime and good friend Jim Wroble along with his wife Anne to come to Ennis and see what this "drag racing" was all about.
That invite was the prelude to something the average person never gives much thought to. What is he going on about you may ask, BUT humor me please. You will be rewarded in the end!
Jim is a semi retired General Sales Manager for one of the most successful steel manufacturers in the world, Steel Dynamics Inc. His bride Anne is a highly successful registered nurse that works at a major Dallas hospital.
And that is where this where this little story is going. Right into that said hospital in Dallas!
It shall prove to one and all that drag racing has surpassed the dirty fingernails; grubby clothes type of environment that is so often associated with it. Our spectators DO most definitely come from all walks of life and they ALL do not have dirty fingernails!
Ms Anne's story was recounted to me by friend and associate William C "Axle" Weiss and I felt compelled to "put pen to paper" and enlighten a lot of people out there in cyberspace that WE, the drag racers of the world have become a whole lot more than the world believed of us only a few short years ago.
Anne Roble was working at the hospital Monday morning when one of her colleagues asked her in passing: "What did you do this past weekend?" And it "was on from there"! Anne told them that she and Jim had gone out to Ennis to a drag race. "No kidding" was the response from her colleague, "so did we"! They had gone with some friends and neighbors who also raced on the weekend. AND Anne's colleague even knew of the Stanley & Weiss Camaro from the hills of Appalachia! That speaks well of our reputation all the way down in Texas, BUT it speaks even better of our sport of choice! It says that drag racers, even without the national name recognition or the television presence on a national scale of a John Force is still recognizable and speaks well for the ADRL and its' marketing partners.
The road leads only one way from here, onward and upward!
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Off To The Great State Of Texas We Go
The Cause and Effect Of The Shakedown At E Town Rain Cancellation
 This week try as we might we could not make the rain go away from the state of New Jersey, home of the Shakedown at E Town!
Not one iota of our power of positive thinking nor any of Sheik Al-Anabi's dreams of glory could stop the Nor'easter that was bearing down on Old Bridge Township Raceway Park!
So Dave Hance, promoter of The Shakedown had to cancel the event! Credit must go to Dave to "pull the plug" in plenty of time so others could change their plans and not incur unneeded expense. So this means that on Tuesday, we are off to.as they say the great state of Texas. It looks to us rednecks like it is way, way, way down there and appears to be about 47 days of travel from here! We have made a conscious decision to attempt to race the entire ADRL series next year so the last thing we need to do is get upside down in the chase for "The Speedtech Battle for Battle" for 2010 right out of the box.
With Houston being scheduled in the early part of March, that could leave us with the possibility of being 2 races in arrears before the year even got started. You see the "Appalachia on Steroids" Pro Extreme Camaro is based in the western part of the state of Maryland.
And John Stanley, driver extraordinaire and I, the other Stanley live way, way up on top of a very large hill. In March we are subject to possibly have lots of snow on the ground and possibly with no chance of getting "Clifford, The big red dog" off of our hill!!!
So Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls we will see you at Billy Meyer's fantastic speed emporium in Ennis, Texas next weekend! Come by and say hello to us! Let us hope Mssr Meyer is in the house!
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Shaken But Not Stirred!
Stanley And Weiss Racing Heads North, The Shakedown At E Town 2009
 It has been a little well deserved four weeks off since the ADRL race in Rockingham. BUT "no rest for the weary" is the game plan now. The "Appalachia on Steroids" Pro Extreme Camaro of Stanley And Weiss Racing, fresh off its own personal best runs at The Rock is ready to head off up north to The 7th Annual Shakedown at E Town's all out Outlaw race at the infamous Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in central New Jersey.
And all who would know will know that Vinny will be smiling down on us at that news. Vinnie used to ruffle John Stanley's hair "back in the day" as he packed his Dad's parachutes!!!
The powers that be nixed screw blowers racing in the 1/4 mile Al-Anabi Racing, Lend America Pro Modified Blown Class so John's desired five second time slip shall have to wait for another day. Therefore we will race in the Outlaw 1/8th Mile Pro Modified Challenge that the Al-Anabi Racing And Barwa people have funded.
Come see us at The 7th Annual 2009 Shakedown at E Town and make yourself known!
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Stanley And Weiss Pro Mod "Miniaturized"
Tim Lewis Scales Down Stanley And Weiss Racing.
 It's no secret that The Stanley's enjoy a bit of fun about their stature in height, but this is going beyond that to making them in 1/25th scale. Team Stanley and Weiss cannot drag race these, although two were built. We're sure they are having some fun with them. View All The Photos At Tim Lewis Scale Modeling. Both model replicas were hand built from scratch by drag racing model extraordinaire Tim Lewis". Tim is out of Fredericksburg, Virginia and is not only proficient in adding to magazines with his photography, and journalism, which can be found in the newly designed high gloss paper version of RPM Magazine, yes it's really nice, no more newsprint.
 Tim has created models for too many racers to list here and is highly touted for his skills at diminishing someone's race car to a scale of just 1/24th the original size with unbelievable detail that only one who knows both the racers and the cars can do. It's a talent we'd all like to possess but when it comes down to it, what you get and what Team Stanley And Weiss Racing have now may become another classic piece to add to the long running history of the "Original Wild Bunch". Tim Lewis' Scale Models For Customers, Click Here !!
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Welcome And Thank You !!
Our New Website Is Finally Here
 Most websites start off with a welcome, this being our first unveiling we feel it's necessary to start off with a BIG THANK YOU!! also.
This website would never have been able to come together without all the help from the people inside this sport, photographers, writers, associations and our good friends adding content to our internet project.
Again, grateful thanks as Stanley and Weiss Racing jumps into the digital arena of the internet to further our goals and get on track for what is coming next year. The whole team hopes you the fans enjoy the "Dirty, Evil, Mean and Nasty" grunge style we have had created for our internet users.
We have the foundation now in place and you will see below in the next Highlight Story of our recap and intentions of racing next year to add to this content. "The Official Stanley and Weiss Racing Website" is yours to view.
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Upcoming Events Notices
Much of the events that will be coming in the future have yet to be listed this early. We know all of the race venues are hard at work planning for the upcoming season. 2008 was record setting in many of the Outlaw Pro Modified classes, and 2009 should be "Da Bomb" for sub six second runs, 230+ MPH passes and 1/8th miles in the .80's or better from most teams all year. The fans will have their hands full with spectacular racing. Make sure you stop back to Stanley and Weiss Racing often as news will come to us as fast as it happens.
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Team Stanley and Weiss Racing would like to take the time to honor our friends of Sponsorship, Press and Media that have followed us for so many years. We hope more is coming to give you some cool stuff to write about, photograph or videotape when we come flat out in 2009. The new car should be about as bad ass as it should be and the team in full gear for a charge with that little wedge like you've never seen.
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