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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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 1968 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.
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We love Them There Mickey Thompson Tires
ADRL Dragstock 2009, "At The Rock"
Photos Courtesy Of David Anderson and Axle Weiss
The "Appalachia on Steroids" braintrust received a phone call about the ADRL Dragstock race at Rockingham a week before it was to be held. The person on the other end wanted to know why we were not going to attend the largest ADRL race of the year. We had to tell them the truth---POVERTY had inevitably entered into the equation! That being said our new fairy Godfather agreed to put up some money to help us attend the race.
What a great call that turned out to be! We arrived to beautiful sunny skies and a perfectly prepped track by Steve Earwood's competent staff. The pits were full of bad to the bone race cars of all shapes, colors and sizes. The buzz right out of the box was how fast were these fields really going to be? At the end of the first session on Friday we ended up on the outside looking in as our 4.23 was only good for number 19 on the ladder. We went back to the pits mumbling one of our famous (to us) sayings: "Well that didn't work!". We then made the changes back to where we were. Our great crew never complained, they just pitched in and we all got it done with time to spare.
 The second session was then canceled due to the car count nearing 150 and not enough time in the day! So the scheduled third round became the second one which is always set for Friday night's cool air. We made the decision to be as close to the front of the staging lanes as possible so if we had work to do it would not be 2 AM when we finished. That plan worked great. We ended up the first pair alongside Doug Winters bright yellow nitro methane burning 57 Chevrolet. At the end of this race Victor Bray would have been very proud of Doug's numbers. BUT not as proud as we were of our 3.765 @ 202.06 pass! Our entire team was ecstatic alongside a lot of our supporters!
This pass slotted us into the number four position at the time and we ended up number five Saturday in what was to become the quickest and fastest door car race in the world, EVER! And all of this with a wedge headed Alan Johnson engine and NO lockup clutch! These numbers placed us in an elite class of racers that we never thought would be possible to accomplish so soon. We are now listed at #10 in 1/8th mile ETs and number 15 in 1/8th mile speeds ALL TIME on Bill Pratt's Draglist.com website! Thanks To Our Mickey Thompson Tires, Pretty good for an underfunded team by anyone's standards!
Those ADRL racers were not playing this past weekend! They lowered the previous bump by lots! It took a 3.827 to be number 16 out of 35 cars! But, alas and a lack of our good feelings went the way of a red light start first round when John could not hold the car in the beams. But all is not bad. We think we are pretty sure we know the reason so it's on to The Shakedown at Etown October 16th, then home to take a shower and go to Dallas for the start of 2010!
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Stepping It Up !! At ADRL Columbus
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 The Stanley and Weiss racing team headed on their merry way out the highway of life this past weekend to the next round of the ADRL race in Columbus, Ohio. For us it was a homecoming of sorts for the team as we had raced and went rounds at the track over a period of seven or eight years. We won our first NSCA Pro Street race there.
We finalized our first NSCA Pro Street World Championship there. We also participated in all three of the Profiler Heads Shootouts as well with a runnerup coming in our last one to the infamous Marc Dantoni.
 But on Friday morning all the nostalgia had to be laid to rest and our current racing program concentration had to become the thought for the day. We have slowly but surely been working toward a successful combination that can compete through qualifying and on into eliminations. On our first qualifier Friday the "Appalachia on Steroids" Camaro posted a fine 3.872/195.96 right out of the box. This was good enough to place us number three on the qualifying ladder.
BUT it went the way of all good plans in short order. The night qualifier had one of those bad things happen that should not happen but does all the time. Enough said about that which is actually too much, but proved we are not as smart sometimes as we think we are! So for the last qualifier on Saturday afternoon the crew chief decided to see if he could get a little more aggressive in the bell housing which was definitely not the right thing to do!
 So into eliminations we went from the number eleven spot with a first round matchup against Todd Tutterow in a rematch of Richmond. At the stripe John took the win over Todd with a fine 3.800/197.65!
The second round would pit John against young gun and past Minuteman winner Jason Hamstra. This time John's win light came on yet again with a 3.830/195.08.
The computer was telling us we had an issue with the car but with no time to address it we stepped on it a bit for our semifinal matchup against perennial winner Josh Hernandez. And a great race it was to about the 475 foot mark! John had a car on the National Guard 57 Chevy at the 60 foot clocks and John still held the lead past the 330 until Josh lit the afterburners and buried our 3.841/193.99. All throughout the race we did all we could do to wreck
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clutch and all of Bob Malek's "Friction Unlimited" discs we owned but we were unable to accomplish either! Great parts make up for dumb decisions.
Thanks as always to all our supporters and well wishers! You make it easy to be us!
Special thanks go to our newest sponsor "The Beer Lady", Krista of Ridgely Distributing of Keyser, West Virginia. She and her distributorship helped a lot of our friends "tip the can" over the weekend. Thanks Krista!
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Stanley And Weiss In Ole' Miss, Dropping Big Numbers
John Stanley Lays Down Some Serious Power At ADRL Missouri
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 What do you get When you cross NINETY-NINE degrees of heat, an adjusted altitude of 3751 feet with an Alan Johnson wedge headed Oldsmobile engine? Before the answer appears we must throw in the fact that John Stanley accomplished this answer on that day while sitting in the oven that is known as the Stanley and Weiss Racing 1968 Extreme Pro Modified Camaro. Okay, do you give up?
You get a number eight qualified car that ran out the back with a stunning 197.45!!! And WITHOUT the lockup clutch that has become so popular! AND we are thinking we don't need no Hemi!
The beautiful Tim Fraker Racegraphics flames on the "Appalachia on Steroids" Camaro were definitely appropriate for this past weekend at the ADRL Gateway Drags in St Louis, Missouri. It was most definitely hotter than the proverbial fires of Hades this past weekend. After their number eight qualifying effort the team was ready to go into the first round of eliminations against Bubba Stanton driving the Widowmaker Corvette, another Alan Johnson Olds powered hitter! With both cars staged John put an uncharacteristic RED, BRIGHT, BRIGHT RED light on the tree when he couldn't hold the car in the beams. That ended the weekend for the team and though they were not happy, they refused to be down about the loss.
 The terminal speeds put up by the Tim McAmis Camaro show that they are making the power equal to the majority of the killers in the class that is called very appropriately, Pro Extreme!
The great crew worked diligently at preparing the car all throughout the weekend with no complaints and definitely earning their large paychecks they DO NOT receive. These guys deserve to have their time in the sun as well as the driver, car owners and supporters! Scott Kline and Jimmy Kline (no relationship) have been with this team since its inception in 2002. Both have worked tirelessly through the good times and the bad times with the team. There have been several others who have been a part of it as well but could not continue on for one reason or another.
These two young men have given tirelessly to the effort and are now being rewarded yet again by helping create a car at the race track that has fast become one to be reckoned with in the ranks of the world's baddest hot rods! Thank you Scott and Jimmy!
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Stanley And Weiss ADRL St Louis Bound!
Ready to be a player in the ADRL shark tank
 Clifford is off on his way west this week toting the "Appalachia on Steroids" Pro Extreme Camaro to the home of both the ADRL and the Axle Weiss part of Stanley & Weiss Racing!
 After the very successful showing in Virginia the team is ready to search for the additional consistency, ETs and speed needed to be a player in the ADRL shark tank. The plan is to try to step up some more of the Jan-Cen Racing Engines Alan Johnson Olds power that resides between the frame rails.
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John Stanley Is In The House!
Stanley And Weiss Racing Set All Time Best at ADRL Virginia
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 Stanley and Weiss Racing are back, ready and willing to participate in the ADRLThe Stanley and Weiss Racing Team came roaring out of Appalachia with a vengeance this past weekend.
The team rolled into the beautiful facility in Dinwiddie, VA appearing to be just another ADRL Pro Extreme team looking to make their mark amongst the best of the best.
After Friday night's first round qualifier they had accomplished that feat quite well, thank you very much! In the quiet Virginia night John staged against the Widowmaker Corvette driven by Bubba Stanton, the premier Alan Johnson Olds powered entry in Pro Extreme. Then just that quick the entire Stanley and Weiss team showed that they had indeed become a force amongst the players in the baddest doorslammers on the face of the earth.
 John's 3.797 shot in his new Tim McAmis Camaro on only its third full 1/8th mile pass placed him amongst the elite in the Doorslammer world. The team celebrated amongst the many congratulations from its peers and all the people surrounding them! The camaraderie of the ADRL series showed far and wide on that Friday night and into Saturday.
On Saturday it was an entirely different ballgame. The day slowly but surely became a place from which Lucifer was spawned. The decision was made to attempt to show the world that their 3.70 shot was no fluke and to attempt to develop some consistency in their program. They ended up qualified in the number four position out of the elite 28 and went into round one against Minuteman trophy holder The Mad Man himself, Frankie Taylor from Texas. The "Appalachia on Steroids" Camaro did just fine, thank you very much with it's first round win ever AND against a "hitter". Round two would pit John against 200mph Todd Tutterow's bad to the bone Corvette. John's light was a tiny bit late against Todd's killer bulb and that proved to be the difference in the loss. Todd's 3.851 beat John's 3.849!
The best thing that the team could take from the loss was that they had indeed found their consistency. The first and second rounds netted incremental of .964 vs .966, 2.577 vs 2.577. 3.849 vs 3.849 and 194.72 vs 194.77! YES!!! The consistency has arrived. All that is left is to turn the race day wick up a bit!
Look out Alice, the Appalachia on Steroids is on the way to dance a jig on your yellow brick road!
 The stories just keep on coming for the 6th installment of the 10 race ADRL series hosted by the fine folks at Virginia Motorsports Park. Before I get into the biggest story of the weekend, we'd like to congratulate the team of Stanley and Weiss for a great 3.797 blast to qualify #3 for the race. This was the fastest time the team has ever run in it's many year of competition in the fast door car world. Look for these folks to be a player during the rest of the season!
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Carry Me Back To Old Virginia ADRL Series
Ready To Rock And Roll In The Sweet Virginia Breeze
 Stanley and Weiss Racing are back, ready and willing to participate in the ADRL series this coming weekend in Richmond Virginia, home of redbirds and dogwoods. We've had the time from Memphis till now to perform some upgrades to that 'Appalachia on Steroids' Camaro Pro Mod that ran an untested 3.91 in Memphis on its second full hit working the Mickey Thompson hides to their fullest. The data we gathered in Memphis gave us what we hope was a good baseline for the balance of this season and into 2010 as it's standing now, the Stanley and Weiss Racing Season is past its testing and into the stiff Extreme Pro Modified Ranks Competition, new car blues have been dealt with and we are planning for some excellent numbers for our sponsors and our own high fives afterwards "I may have to jump real high to get one in".
 Mike Janis at Jan-Cen Racing Engines worked his magic on our Hi-Helix blower to give us a bit more power as he has done for the last five years. Jeff Burnett at Composite Specialties provided the team with one of his new composite injectors to complement Mike's finessing of the supercharger, John is going to see the menacing screwcharger inhaling the mountain air as he git's her down the track from his drivers seat view.
After last months scolding by Tim Fraker making sure I never touch another decal in my life, Tim applied our signature Tim Fraker Racegraphics completing the look of the Camaro allowing our outstanding photographers an easy way now to shoot the car in all its glory from any angle since it's now covered correctly with the new rubbed out paint by Raymond Stanley from Maaco Of Hagerstown and the application of her new flames and STRAIGHT decals, in our unbiased opinion, the shots of the car should be amazing to view online here and in ADRL's Galleries and look spectacular under the lights at night.
 Not to be outdone, Clifford the Big Red Dog got "aerodynamicized" (We really think this is a word) but you can choose if it is. In short the addition of an air shield on the body and a wing on the roof of the cab that was hand carried back from New Zealand by "Me" which was donated to the cause by our good friend Toe-Knee Johnson of Hell Pizza Chevy fame to lower the drag coefficient of our big hauler that tipped the scales at a trim 50,000 lbs fully loaded with fluids on our last trip down after Clifford's overhaul. We barely had to drop a gear getting on the highway or pulling up a mountain grade with our new found power.
 And after being zinged by those large transports like Roger Henson owns, Clifford got a brain transplant as well so as to try and keep up with a better injection mapping tune from it's original fleet map compliments of the good people at D&D Truck Repair and Towing!
Come and see us in Richmond! We will be the team having fun doing what we love to do!
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Stanley And Weiss, Urban Hillbilly's ??
You Bet, Included in Door Car Chaos 2009 Vol. 2
Urban Hillbilly Action Videos have been a staple for drag racing enthusiasts for so many years and now they have reached an audience never perceived.
Their videos have been acclaimed by many for the outstanding quality, raw action and unusual abilities to catch some of the most incredible footage of racing all over the country.
Front Man of Stanley and Weiss Racing "Camp Stanley" admits he's a man on a mountain in Maryland overlooking a town known to many as the Appalachian entrance, his outhouse is heated of course.
John Stanley is featured in the new Door Car Chaos Video from Urban Hillbilly Videos from his wild burnouts, to rowing the gears and dropping the laundry, all of this is seen in this new release and others.
Stanley And Weiss Racing a bunch of hillbilly's; you bet and proud of it.
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Add Color, Shake Well And Race
We Put Stickers On Too
 Maaco Of Hagerstown Added The Hugger Orange and Flake. The 'Appalachia on Steroids' Camaro is all bright Hugger Orange metal flake cloaked yet again! Off the gal went to Maaco of Hagerstown's paint emporium on Friday. She was to be finally all repaired from her altercation with Jim Halsey's wall at Cecil County Dragway that occurred on her maiden voyage in the spring.
The boo boo she suffered left us at Memphis last time we reported looking unlike the fresh new car we opened up the season with.
 The Maaco of Hagerstown's crew led by driver John Stanley's brother Raymond worked their magic and she rolled out of the paint booth Monday morning looking very spectacular! It has that new car sparkle again like nothing ever happened to the sleek lines of the Camaro body.
She now awaits the loving touches of family pal and sign writer extraordinaire Tim Fraker of Tim Fraker Racegraphics to work his magic yet again to bring her full appeal to the forefront.
 Tim will reapply all the many contingency decals that the ADRL has posted for the Pro Extreme class. Car owner Camp Stanley has been banished to the darkest corner of the decal installation room and forbidden to ever install another decal by the illustrious Tim Fraker.
 Comments were spewed around the garage like "Crooked, Cock-eyed, Put them down, Don't touch them, Go Away and more". All the better for the appearance of her was the consensus of one and all, Camp included!
As you can see the car looks the part now, all cleaned up and dressed to go out, we just need to get to the track and show off some Jan-Cen Power sitting under the hood.
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JanCen Power Successful Down Under
Mifsud, Janis And Stanley Down Under
 Sean Mifsud's Wild Willy team has proved yet again that the roots supercharged Hemi is still competitive amongst all the screw blower power plants that dominate Australian Top Doorslammer Racing! The crowd pleasing 41 Willys continued on with its very successful record since the installation of the Mike Janis prepped Jan-Cen Racing Engines power plant with tuning and mentoring help continuing to be supplied by Camp Stanley. At the just completed Castrol Winternationals in Brisbane the team scored a spot yet again in the quickest Top Doorslammer field in history.
. Since the installation of the JanCen hemi between the frame rails of the 41 Willys in late 2007 it has qualified at every event it has entered with the exception for its first foray into the wars known as Australian Top Doorslammer racing! At that meeting they ONLY secured a number nine spot in what was then the quickest Top Doorslammer field ever assembled! Do you see a pattern developing here???? At this first race the team settled for a win in what is known as the B consolation race that had the likes of Kath Stevens who secured her first 5 second run in the first round to the giant that Sean won the final over, none other than Mr. First to the Five-Eights, Robin Judd!
 Along the way they secured a win at the Tin Tops Titles at Willowbank. They did not back into that win by luck. They secured the victory by being the quickest car on the grounds behind John Zappia every round! The win over Zap's Rat was secured by being a bit better pedalfest driver on the day than the infamous John Zappia! They then carried on through the rest of 2008 and into 2009 putting up good numbers at each event. Along the way they also secured the quickest and fastest roots blown car records in Australia! Although the brain trusts kind of lost their way for a bit and then missed two races while Sean, in true Maltese fashion tended to his Mum and her health issues the entire team never lost faith in their abilities nor the abilities of their race car.
They came roaring out of the doldrums tunnel at the Nitro Champs meeting at Western Sydney International Dragway and left the other teams know they really had not died and gone to visit Lucifer! Sean's 6.02 with the astounding short times proved they were no fluke. And then that nasty woman Ms Fickle Finger of Fate jumped up and bit them yet again. A timing controller malfunction against Ben Bray in the first round ended their day early but they were very happy with being back the 'Ohs' yet again! At the Willowbank Winternationals the team came out with a safe and sound 6.04 which they thought would secure them a spot in the field. They tried a bit different combo in the second round which did not give them what they were looking for yet still gave them a 6.09! But after he went through the traps the dramas began for Sean inside the car! When he pulled the chutes on the car a chassis bar failed that the chutes were attached to lifted the rear of the car completely off the ground at almost 230MPH! When the car settled back to earth it was minus its parachutes! Sean brought Wild Willy to a stop at the edge of the sand trap very calmly and skillfully with a sigh of relief! And then the fun began!
The time required to repair the car negated another shot at Willowbank's infamous starting line and race track. The entire team never, ever says quit and did not even consider parking up the car! When you have a crew that has an airplane engineer, a chassis builder, a machinist and tool maker amongst their midst led by a team manager who is Barney Rubble personified you cannot help but to succeed. When Sunday morning came around Wild Willy's repairs had received the blessing of the ANDRA stewards to compete in eliminations. The first round car in the other lane was to be Robin Judd and his 5.90 Moonshine Bandit Studebaker. Although Wild Willy put up a valiant effort it was all for naught as Robin's 5.9 eclipsed Sean's 6.07. Although the team did not win at Willowbank again they are not disheartened in the least. The last five runs in a row have all been 6.0's with amazing short times on each and every one of them. This feat signed, sealed and delivered to the team a record not seen by a lot of Australia's Top Doorslammer teams. The chore for the brain trusts of Sean Mifsud, Camp Stanley and Mike Janis are to bring the back half numbers up to match the front half ones. And do not be surprised to see this happen during the 2010 season!
Sean wants to thank his wife Danielle and son Daniel, PPG paints, his entire crew along with Camp Stanley and Mike Janis Jan-Cen Racing Engines, for all their help and perseverance to make this dream come true. Wild Willy still lives and will be back in the 2010 season. Come by and say hello and thanks for your support!
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Those Were The Days When
First Outing At ADRL Nets A 3.91, Close But No Cigar.
Way, way back in the year 2008 a race team could show up at an ADRL race and think they could qualify in Pro Extreme with an untried, untested piece! All they needed was to be on their game and have a good car.
 In 2009 those thought processes no longer apply! The competition has picked up two hundred fold. If you bring your Bowie knife to an ADRL race you are gonna get yourself mowed down by a 50 caliber gun! DO NOT pass go, DO NOT collect one hundred dollars. Go directly to the house!
The bump this year has slowly dropped from a 3.99 in Houston to a 3.92 in Valdosta that has now become a 3.900 in Memphis! These guys and gals are not playing!
Stanley and Weiss Racing made the conscious decision to take our untried, almost untested racecar to Memphis and see if we could at least make the big show in order to race with the Big Dogs. We made one hit Friday night to be sure we would not run into or over anything like the time out with our new pride and joy McAmis car. That run gave us the little bit of data we were looking for and we DID NOT run over or into anything! With the way our 2009 has gone that was a definite plus for us.
Friday's qualifier, number two in the ADRL's scheduling gave us a 3.98 time slip for the 'Appalachia on Steroids' Camaro's first hit down the racetrack! This gave the entire team the confidence that the hard winter's work and the last month's trials and tribulations to be well worth it! The last qualifier netted the team a 3.91 time slip, which was not quite good enough to make the cut for the big show.
BUT the team is very happy with the results in a competitive situation. To take an untried car to a major event and put up numbers of a 3.98 and 3.91 in the first two hits down the track on a new car speaks well for our team.
We want to take this opportunity to thank all those people and companies that support our racing endeavors. Without each and every one of you we could not do what we enjoy doing.
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Home Of The Blues
Bound For ADRL Memphis Untested
 That is exactly where we have been residing for the last several months with this new race car! AND guess what? That is exactly where we are gonna be on Thursday! Watch out BB King fans. We are gonna rock up in your house! Between health issues, Cecil County's unforgiving concrete walls and then that fat fickle witch Mother Nature lightly raining down on us on Saturday we cannot seem to get the opportunity to test this new race car!
 On Saturday we left sunny Appalachia at 6:00AM bound once again for Jim Halsey's Cecil County Dragway in Rising Sun, MD. We arrived, set up the pit area, reset and rechecked everything, zero'ed the clutch and got ready to GIT-R-DONE! Ha what a joke that was to be. The light fog in the area became heavier and heavier fog. Then that fog became light drops of rain that came and went. And when it was all said and done it was not going to happen on Saturday. The powers to be pulled the plug early as they should have, refunded our money and we were on the way back home by 11:30AM!
 So John's brother Raymond came up on Sunday, finished the carbon fiber repairs and put the concrete wall wounds in our signature Stanley & Weiss desert tan primer as Pat Budd had aptly named it years ago. We have a few little things to do and then we are off Wed night bound for Memphis! What else can happen to us? We figured out that if Tommy Gray can do it we figure we can!
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The Camaro Under Power At Cecil County !!
And now we know how Jason and Mitchell Scruggs felt last year!
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 We ventured forth to Jim Halsey's Cecil County Dragway in Rising Sun, Maryland on a gorgeous sunlit Saturday morning April 18th for the first hits on our new Tim McAmis Camaro.
The day was beautiful and the place was full of race cars as we were attending during the newly started 10.0 and 12.0 Index drag racing series for the racers in the northeast and a special 275 Drag Radial Session also new at Cecil County this year. We unloaded and set about finishing a couple of things we had left yet to do.
 After the warm-up, rezeroing and setting of the clutch and the fuel system, The Team was ready to go make a hit on the Cecil surface with Jim Halsey amped up for our first pass on his quarter mile.
Both "Carey Cable" of CLC Video Productions and Photojournalist "Seth Cohen" of GoneDragRacing.com were on hand as usual to capture our passes digitally.
 John rolled through the water, prepared himself mentally and proceeded into the burnout with fans cramped along the fence clasping at their ears and covering from the alcohol fumes from the screaming Alan Johnson "all screwed up" 481X passing by.
The car worked its magic as all appeared to be well. Straight, true, not a hint of a bobble a couple little tiny flicks on the wheel was all that was needed. He backed up, brought the car into the staging beams under Dad's guidance, revved her up and swapped feet! then all went down the tube.
For those not sure of what "Swapping feet" means; mashing the throttle and leaving the clutch out at the same time. This is opposed to a "Two Step" where the throttle is mashed and the ignition system is on a limiter.
It was bad to the bone GREAT for the first 30 feet hooking hard but quickly made its way to Hades in a hand basket! The car left straight as an arrow, no twist no nothing until it started to get up on the tires turning them unmercifully then the RPMs went to the moon spinning around 7,200 RPM creating a violent shake that set the car INSTANTLY sideways and had it pointed head-on at the wall within fractions of a second!! The data logger recorded a major impact of 4.3 G,s after john had pulled it back in from three wheels on the ground as you can see in Carey Cable's Video.
 John's years of championship experience kept it out of a head on collision and luckily the car only got a glancing side blow, John was OK but the car did suffer damage.
The headers saved a lot of carnage as they took the brunt of it. So a new door from Tim McAmis Race Cars, another 'UH-OH, better call Maaco" of Hagerstown !! phone call and some groveling to Tim Fraker Signs and Graphics shall see us all back together by the time I get back from Australia on May 4th.
And now YOU know why WE know how the Scrugg's family felt last year.
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Camp Stanley Confronts Surgery Complications
The Stanley & Weiss Racing Team Not Attending First ADRL Race:
 The Stanley & Weiss racing team will not be attending their first ADRL race this weekend in Valdosta, GA. after all. After all the great work throughout the winter and the support of all their sponsors and friends, that fickle lady Mother Nature put a screeching halt to the planned debut of their new car!
Camp Stanley had a minor surgery procedure on Monday the 30th of March and developed some issues with internal bleeding that got bad enough to land him in the hospital in Hagerstown, MD at 230am Sunday morning. Camp should be out and home Tuesday evening after a final test to be sure they have the cause of the bleeding stopped.
The doctors said there was no way Camp could ride, much less drive for 16 hours a day after this last procedure and that Camp needed a few more days of doing nothing after he got home. The entire team decided it was best to not even consider going. There will always be another race and the planned ADRL debut is now set for Memphis in May.
Stanley & Wiess Racing hopes all their fans come by and see them in Memphis!
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