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The Last Ride
For real this time
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 2/11/2020

The Last Ride Camp Stanley

The Last Ride Camp Stanley
I know that I have said it before using that dreaded word: "retirement" but now as they say, all good things must come to and. I am sad to say that Stanley & Weiss Racing will no longer be out among our many fans and friends. The decision has been made to liquidate the entire racing operation. I need to kick back and not be at the beck and call of a drag strip somewhere on their schedule.

When our GREAT sponsor, Steel Dynamics, Inc of Pittsboro, Indiana agreed to fund us for two more years in late 2017 how could I have refused. But now that they are in the process of building a brand new, state of the art steel mill in Texas they needed to redirect funds to this venture.

I need to take a few quick lines to thank the two people who brought us into and kept us in this business venture. Mr. Barry Schneider and Mr. Glenn Pushis saw our value to the masses and have assisted in funding our operation for SEVEN years. Without their vision and loyalty over that time Stanley & Weiss Racing would have not been able to compete at the level we have been! Thanks to you Barry and Glenn, it has been a GREAT time.

The Team In Action Las Vegas

The Team In Action Las Vegas
And then I would be remiss if I did not mention my friend and racing funding partner for over EIGHTEEN years, Mr. Axle Weiss that dates all the way back to the Super Chevy Pro Mod days! Back then was when I proposed a partnership with Axle and Rob Emmans of Mishawaka, Indiana which went well for all.

But when Rob could no longer travel the highways and byways of our great land, I purchased his Camaro and all his spares. With that purchase and with Axle's fifth wheel trailer and his Alan Johnson KB Olds, Emmans & Weiss Racing became what is now known as Stanley & Weiss Racing. And now that Axle and I are both getting a bit "long in tooth" we have realized that we can no longer fund this money eating beast nor do either of us wish to.

I will never, ever disappear from this sport that has given me so much and that I hope I have returned a bit in kind! I will still travel the world plying my tuning wares with my best friend Marcus Hilt of Switzerland as my main priority! After all, starting into TEN years together its again time to see if we can find some more gains with what we have to work with as well as we have to date.

Our ACE, A Number One, Steering Wheel Technician John "JFS" Stanley is out beating the bushes looking for a ride that might bring some old man along for the ride when he wishes. We have several potentials working, but nothing cast in stone as of this writing.

Always be looking over your shoulder for you just never know when I may appear!

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NMCA Extreme Pro Mod
NMCA Racing Series Year End Recap
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 10/28/2019

Hmmmm, I wonder if this is a number one qualifier jet? ALMOST WAS!

Hmmmm, I wonder if this is a number one qualifier jet? ALMOST WAS!
The Stanley & Weiss racing team rolled into the spotless Summit Motorsports Park for race number five in the NMCA. We had high hopes for Da Caddy from the potential it had been showing at the last two races.

And it did not disappoint! After an early shutoff test run, we came back on Friday and showed we definitely had a hot rod that could play with a 3.717 at 200.98!

And when final qualifying was completed, we had nabbed our second personal best qualifying spot with an early shutoff 3.688 at only 191.51 for the number two qualifying spot right behind the Orange Juggernaut Corvette of the Don Walsh, Jr racing team! Pretty elite company for us it was!

But alas it was all to come to end in the second round when I failed to keep up with the rising track temperatures and Da Caddy spun the tires about forty feet out! And that was the end of our weekend!

Our first number one qualifier celebration!

Our first number one qualifier celebration!
Our NMCA Racing series year came to a rather dramatic end at the final race of the year in Indianapolis, Indiana. We tested on Friday and put up a stout 3.713 at 201.25 which stood as quick time for quite a while! In the last qualifying shot of the day on Saturday John Stanley wheeled Da Caddy to our first NUMBER ONE qualifying spot in two years of Extreme Pro Mod NMCA racing!

It was very surreal sitting along the bottom end of the return road watching each and every one of the balance of the Extreme Pro Mod cars try to snatch that number one spot from us! As we stood there waiting John made a very astute comment that we were used to waiting down here to see if we got bumped out!

Congratulations must go to Jim Widener who joined Don Walsh, Jr and John Stanley in the prestigious Extreme pro Mod 3.60 club with a stout 3.69 in his semifinal round win! Thanks to the entire NMCA team for giving us a GREAT place to race in 2019! It was GREAT fun!

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Joliet NMCA Wild Pro Mod Action!!
Drag Racing Sure Is A Fickle Sport!
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 8/27/2019
Photos By: DRD Photos

Joliet NMCA Eliminations Round One Headed For The Wall !!
Our next stop on the NMCA tour for 2019 was the Super Bowl of Drag Racing held in Joliet, Illinois. And that race was quick to prove how easy it is to go from "Hero to Zero!" in nothing flat! And both Fickle and Zero were very appropriate words for us FOR SURE!

One test session showed us Da Caddy had the potential to improve on the low 3.80's and high 3.70's it had been showing. It clicked off our best ever sixty foot time in NMCA trim in two years. And then it started to unravel for us! John Stanley had to abort the first qualifying run when Da Caddy started to spin the tires right off the starting line.

In qualifying session two, the car went a lot further than it had before till it started to get into trouble! But that run showed the benefit of a GREAT wheel man! John went about 687 feet of the prescribed 660 feet that he was to use! It was all good because Da Caddy put up a 3.83 run at only 197 that would stand for the number four qualifying number all the way through! Our best ever qualifying spot in the NMCA!
John Stanley NMCA Pro Mod qualifying round two
The first round of eliminations put us against the Glaser Family Team and then that Fickle Finger of Fate stuck it to us pretty good, for sure! Both of the race cars left together seperated by only a measly .004 of a second!

Right after that it started to go REALLY wrong for Stanley & Weiss Racing. The car left hard but then promptly decided to break a bolt on the wheelie bar bracket on the rear end housing!!! Da Caddy was very definitely not very enamored with that BIG issue.

It was so angry that it proceeded to ride the bars into a rather stout wheel stand! And stout was definitely an understatement!!! John lifted as it was headed to the wall and when he got back after it in a valiant effort to chase down the nitrous car it was having none of it! And that was our weekend; done!

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John Stanley Heading Towards The Wall In The CaddyJohn Stanley Heading Towards The Wall In The Caddy



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NMCA Not Your Daddy's Caddy
That Surely Took Long Enough!!!
By Ainsley Jacobs: Post Date: 6/24/2019
Photos By: Kevin Diossi

One Fine Caddy

One Fine Caddy
Drag racing is inherently punk rock. There's something rebellious about strapping oneself to a machine making several thousand horsepower and flying down a strip of concrete with the only concern being how quick the car can go. Nothing matters except beating the guy in the other lane, being the first to the stripe, the first to the record books. Conventional thinking says it is dangerous; performance thinking says it's as critical to life as breathing. Arthur Camp Stanley III, known simply as "Camp," embodies the badassery of drag racing and has been a loud, proud pioneer of the sport.

Camp's life reads like a roadmap for success, although the legendary racer/tuner/philosopher is quite humble about his achievements. He helped shape the door slammer drag racing scene into what it is today, and is continuing to help the sport grow and evolve with his current Pro Mod operation.

In the early 1960s, Camp was stationed in Germany while serving in the Army.

Camp and John Stanley created a 521-cube monster based on a Noonan Race Engineer block and HEMI heads. A huge PSI screw blower boosts this beast.

Team Stanley & Weiss Racing Proud

Team Stanley & Weiss Racing Proud
"Americans would bring cars over, but not take them back home, so they got sold to the next guy, and the next guy, and I wound up being a next guy," laughed Camp, now 74, of how he first got his hands on a '55 Ford that he started tinkering with. Always interested in mechanical things and whatnot, Camp got out of the service in '65 and "bummed around the United States for a year" before settling down and marrying his bride, Janet, in '68. SO MUCH MORE TO THIS STORY HERE ON NMCA RACE PAGES, CLICK TO CONTINUE READING THIS FASCINATING STORY!!



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NMCA Memphis Pro Mod Win and Some Reminiscing
That Surely Took Long Enough!!!
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 6/11/2019
Photos By: E3xtreme and Kevin Diossi

This picture says it all!!!

This picture says it all!!!
How long do you ask, if you did ask? According to our resident statistician, wheel man extraordinaire John Stanley it had been TEN years since we won an outright Pro Mod race! How time flies when you are having fun is what they say!

We have won other things in that time frame and have done well for ourselves. We went to the semis in our very first attempt at racing amongst the sharks that populated the ADRL waters in Valdosta, Georgia back in those days.

We are proud to say that we have won the infamous Money Shot race for $5000 at Summit Motorsports Park at the Bader family's facility in Norwalk, Ohio two times.

We have traversed the great U. S. of A. four times to race at Mel and Heather Roth's Street Car Super Nationals. And we have left that beautiful facility with TWO different Pro Mod World Records and with TWO different cars!!! The first one was with the ole reliable "Orange Ho" that "raised the bar" (Thanks Jason Reiss) for ET at the time. And we didn't just touch the record, we buried it! AND backed it up the next round the same day in the other lane within .008 seconds! We definitely brought our "A" game for the left coasters!

The second was the SPEED record set in 2017 by "Daddy's Caddy". Da Caddy went a booming 266.74 MPH out the back door just a strolling like a walk in the park. And out of those four trips we have made our way to three finals, although never winning one!

You want a wheels Hanging High shot…

You want a wheels Hanging High shot…
But the NMCA race in Memphis, Tennessee was to be the ending of the famine that was! And it wasn't easy for sure! I tipped Da Caddy over the edge, well WAY over the edge on our lone time run and also on the first qualifier! I was looking for what it didn't like on those runs and I MOST definitely found it! With one last qualifier to go on Friday and with weather threatening all day Saturday I put the tune up back in Da Caddy that had yieded us a pair of 3.79's in Commerce the race before. And Da Caddy responded well with a 3.81 lap that put us sixth in the field of stout race cars. And it was a good thing since Saturday ended being a total wash out!

But Sunday dawned bright and sunny and it was on! We made it through three rounds of racing on the way up the ladder, although it wasn't easy! And we dodged several bullets on our way to the finals! John won a pedal fest against Tommy Cunningham and when Steve Summers turned on the red light in the semis we had earned our first final round of racing in the NMCA!

Noonan power doing work!
Our opponent was the orange turbo powered rocket ship of Don Walsh, Jr who had reset the NMCA Extreme Pro Mod record to a 3.70 FLAT this very same weekend! But I definitely practiced what I preach: "race the race track'. I knew that their 3.70 run most definitely shone bright above our best ever NMCA run of 3.77 in the first round. I also knew that Kurt Johnson and his Total Value Concepts track prep team would give both of us the best track that was to be had on that day.

And give it to us he did, in spades!!!! The Caddy left with the front wheels danging high and it was on! Don Number Two had to give the Vette a steer job when he got over close to the center line and by then there was not quite enough turbo feeding the hemi under the hood to catch John "Effen" Stanley! We had finally captured and laid our hands on the holy grail of drag racing, a winners circle trophy!

I would be very remiss in not giving credit where credit is due. Rollie Miler and the entire staff that he and Steve have assembled did a yeoman's job on this weekend to get the event in the books. And the weatherman did them proud on Sunday!

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NMCA Pro Mod Updates Georgia
Follow Up To Our New Changes
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 4/16/2019

And now on to the follow up story on the 2019 changes:

The first of many changes was a new Aeromotive fuel pump needed because of the lesser overdrive.

The overdrive on the Hammer Superchargers prepped blower was dropped from 98% over to 70% over.

Next up was a compression change inside the Noonan Race Engineering Mach One headed hemi.

Then into the bellhousing area we go to remove our proven Neal Chance lockup converter that had powered us to our world record setting mile an hour pass in Las Vegas in 2017.

This was ONLY done because we could not see the gain in the eighth mile for the additional fifty pounds we would have to carry! So, we installed another tried and true Neal Chance converter.

We then enclosed that converter in a new Boninfante / Bohr Racing titanium bellhousing.

Then inside the B&J transmissions we went coming up with some different ratio combinations that we hoped would propel the car harder in the first half of the race track.

And then we went way lower with a completely different ratio in the rear than we had ever ran.

And lastly, I FINALLY gave up the fight and went to the 36-inch liner wheels from Weld Racing to spin the 36-inch tires.

A lot of these changes were made with the assistance of Mike Janis 1 and Mike Jr, the brain trust at JanCen engines and Mike Strasburg of B&J transmissions.

I owe them a debt of gratitude for bearing with me through all my brainstorming!

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NMCA Bradenton Update
Florida in March is a good thing!
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 3/26/2019
Photos By: 660 Outlawz

John Stanley's Daddy's Caddy

John Stanley's Daddy's Caddy
After a winter of changing everything between the fuel tank and the rear wing on John Stanley's Daddy's Caddy it was time to go south and see how things might work out. In its effort to create parity in the Extreme Pro Mod class the powers that be at the NMCA changed some of the rules for each power adder. Then after the PRI show was completed in early December, we had decided to make the massive changes to the Caddy that we hoped would enable us to be competitive. We were not happy with all the changes needed but we delved deep into the processes to make it happen!

PLAN YOUR WORK!!!!
WORK YOUR PLAN!!!!

And even though we lost two test runs to electrical glitches and we had to pass on the second qualifier because of another issue we still managed to qualify tenth out of 19-20 cars with a car that had not seen the track with all of our changes. More into all of that hard work and all the changes we made later in the season.

A 3.86 was our best run on this weekend but we can see the rainbow just over mountain. Even though another gremlin bit us first round. Don't look back, we are not giving up! Next up is a trip to Commerce, Georgia where we have NO intention of posting another "did not qualify" posting in 2019 like we did in 2018!

With the JanCen brain trust offering assistance at all turns it doesn't get any better! Its hard to beat the advice of a Pro Mod World Champion and his able bodied son! Mike Janis times two are the best!

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Back In Drag Illustrated Champions Issue
It's GREAT to be recognized!!!!
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 2/12/2019

We are ranked number SIX in the ET department and top the list at number ONE in the speed department!!!

We are ranked number SIX in the ET department and top the list at number ONE in the speed department!!!
Drag Illustrated magazine has once again resurrected its Top 8 list!!

This infamous and studiously followed list is searched out by racers all around the world! And we are one of the many to do just that every month!

This magazine is dedicated more to the racers at the grass roots levels and gives these racers their just do every issue.

And when we opened the latest issue dubbed "The CHAMPIONS Issue", we were pleasantly surprised to see the list back in its place!

And then to be placed among the best in the world makes us prouder than any of you could ever know! In the Unlimited Supercharged Pro Modified Eliminator category, we scored a place on both the Quickest Drivers and Fastest Drivers in THE WORLD!!

Quickest Drivers and Fastest Drivers in THE WORLD!!

Quickest Drivers and Fastest Drivers in THE WORLD!!
POW!!! The little team that could has once again left our indelible mark on the record books! We are ranked number SIX in the ET department and top the list at number ONE in the speed department!!!

Thank you, Wes Buck, and the entire Drag Illustrated team for continuing to chase out this information and sharing it with the world!

If you do not subscribe to Drag Illustrated, please do so now. And don’t forget to keep up with what is going on in our sport daily by religiously following: https://dragillustrated.com/

Thanks for being a part of our adventure!

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2018 "Year In Review"
Going Around The World And Investing In The NMCA
By Camp Stanley: Post Date: 1/4/2019

Happy New Year From Stanley & Weiss Racing

Happy New Year From Stanley & Weiss Racing

Hello and good day to one and all. It is a new year and I shall try to redeem myself for the lack of updates in 2018!!! It has seemed that every time a thought came into my brain, there were no pens nor paper anywhere. Then just that fast they were gone. I don't want to sound like I wasn't trying but something "always came up"! And that is my story and I will tell it how I see fit...

I will attempt to bring to all the peoples from all around the world how the departed year of 2018 has gone for us. Some of it was good and some of it was downright depressing and EXPENSIVE! Hint: below is something you DO NOT want to find laying in your oil pan with a connecting rod STILL attached to it:

Busted Crankshaft

Busted Crankshaft

And on the international front several trips with Marcus Hilt from Switzerland to Santa Pod Raceway in Merry Ole England went sort of okay and some not so okay! As did the trip yet again with Marcus Hilt to The Nitrolympix in Hockenheim, Germany.

But another trip across the ocean once more to watch the Dragstalgia event at Santa Pod Raceway with friends was a winner, hands down!

Stay tuned!

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