Bad Nanner's first outing

**Meister** · 01-07-2007, 05:29 PM

Hi gang! 'Have something I've gotta share with you (proud papa & all that

):

Last night, in his very first outing to the track with his sweet new Dodge Charger Daytona, "Bad 'Nanner" (BADNANR), my son Mike broke into the 13s.

Pretty darn amazing when you think about how many are still looking for their first 13, even back on the east coast, where Density Altitude works greatly to one's favor.

Density altitude last night was somewhere around 1200', maybe 1000' by the end of the night's sessions.

When you look at my best, last night, of 13.1, and Mike's best of 13.9, that's only 8 tenths separating those two cars.

And Mike was on 20" street tires, the factory F1 RSAs, which are just a smidge under 28" in diameter, vs. my 25.4" dia. BFG DRs.

Dayum!

Had we swapped rear wheels & tires last night, Mike would have gotten approx. .2 quicker.

I would have gotten .2 slower.

Which means Mike would have been running 13.7s and I'd have been running 13.3s.

For a delta of only .4 seconds.

And I've been at this for 2 years and Mike just started.

Double dayum!!

Congratulations Mike. Well done!

You can see and read more of Bad Nanner, and Mike, here: Junior's got his Banana - pics!

I've included a few pics for your viewing enjoyment, below:

**fatchance** · 01-07-2007, 05:33 PM

A chip off the old block, give my best to Mike and good job. Oh, ya your crazy if you didn't already no that, lol.

**hemiwagn** · 01-07-2007, 05:33 PM

congrats!!!!
the apple does not fall far from the tree, eh?

**SRT8AZ** · 01-07-2007, 07:06 PM

cool very cool! he almost eclipsed my best 5.7 time of 13.88 that we ran at firebird when i had the original 300C before i got the SRT8! Way to go and welcome!

**Drew's RT** · 01-07-2007, 07:12 PM

Very nice, now all you have to do is convince him to do all the mods to his ride now, lol.

**Brilliant R/T** · 01-07-2007, 08:19 PM

Mike will be passing dad pretty soon.

**JonzMgnm** · 01-07-2007, 10:15 PM

Not too shabby, Jim. But then considering the lineage, I'm not surprised!

**BUTWEET** · 01-07-2007, 10:25 PM

I'm sure he's got a fine teacher!

**Ozzie** · 01-08-2007, 12:09 AM

You've every right to be proud, Jim. Congratulations to you both!

**Meister** · 01-08-2007, 12:17 AM

Thanks, everyone, for those very kind words.

Mike is planning on adding a AirHammer to the mix fairly soon, so I'd best be on my toes.

**SRT8AZ** · 01-08-2007, 12:43 AM

I ma sure the teacher always has a trick up his sleeve!

**Junior** · 04-02-2009, 01:30 PM

Ha! I'm not sure I ever saw this.

I was looking for a particular thread by my old man (more on that later), and I found this one...

♫ Meeeemories.

**Leadfootluke** · 04-02-2009, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by Junior

Ha! I'm not sure I ever saw this.

I was looking for a particular thread by my old man (more on that later), and I found this one...

♫ Meeeemories.

I saw the thread title and was confused, read a little bit and didnt realize he had 2 sons named Mike "junior and badnanr" then I decided to look at the date, haha.