How many of you remember Shirl Greer�s �Chained Lightning� Mustang funny? It was there.

Back at Godman pit, �06 honorees Bill �Short Round� Roell (driving golf cart) and Jim �Dauber� Farr (left, with pony tail) stopped by. Roell and Farr are the custom paint/striping duo that has decorated hundreds of race cars, bikes and street rods over thepast four decades. Among their clients was Raymond Godman. Ray had them sign a dragster nose panel for a friend.

Listing of Godman�s accomplishment jotted on a notepad sheet became T-shirt art for Preston Davis, long-time Godman driver and group�s current top-kick, keeping things running smoothly and getting done. Elsewhere, other crews were readying their cars for the C-fest. Here, driver Bob Steed, wrenches the motor in Sy Sidebotham�s entry from Reading, Mass., the King and Marshall El Diablo car, originally built for the Rhode Island team by Don Long. Steed made a mini run on Saturday before the rains.

Across the way, Californians �Sour Sister� Kenny Safford (l.) relaxed with some timely reading and dragster and funny car driver, builder and restorer Pat Foster (c.) talked race cars with Louisianan Charles �Boogie� Scott (r.) Scott is building a rear-engine modified roadster for Bonneville, drove his blue-on-blue�27 T track roadster up from the Gulf Coast. Foster once again accompanied his beautifully restored �Jade Grenade.� Damage apparently incurred on the tow to Kentucky kept it in the pits, however.

Pushing the Howard Cams Rattler only takes one. (Boogie Scott�s T is in background.)

The famed �Pure Heaven� AA/FA, Chevy-propelled answer to Rich Guasco�s Hemi-powered �Pure Hell.� These freaky short-wheelbase fan favorites could top 205 mph back in 1970. Pure Heaven reversed during the Cacklefest, backing into a wall.

One of the later versions of the famed Chicago-based �ChiTown Hustler� funny cars, fielded by the team of Farkonas, Coil and Minick. Coil is Austen Coil, long-time tech and tuning wizard for John Force. Staging lanes: The Avenue of Wedgees � Chrysler used to call it The Forward Look, but all brands take to the look, including a finned, blown Stude.

A shape and a name familiar to many, the King Kong A/Gas Anglia. Another car that took a certain skill to drive.

Godman and longtime friend pioneering New England hot rodder Paul FitzGerald took time for to pose for a shot. FitzGerald drove for Godman one Sixties summer after the two met while Fitzy was in Navy training in Memphis, though it required flying from Connecticut on Friday afternoons to do it. Memories include night match races against Pete Robinson on tiny strips, sometimes entailing more flying�throughshort shutoff areas and into a neighboring farmer�s field. Distant thunder signaled a call to baggy-up the dragster engine. Minutes later, the rain came.

The devotedly reproduced Bobby Langley Scorpion of the late Fifties � a car from the Time of Skinny Slicks and Wide Rear Axles -- was present last year, but this time, Bobby Langley, not a copy, was there, as an honoree, and to drive it in the Cacklefest. Kept spotless before the rain, afterwards it was hurriedly cleared of water spots

Similar chores were carried out on the Bo-Weevil dragster.

More conservative transport When the rain stopped, many thought it would be smart to leave. In the lines of cars trying to exit was this unusual Topolino street machine, with big rear fenders and a huffed BBC. Its cooling system was a credit to its builder.

Yellow Morris Minor: Another view as to what makes a radical blown-BBC street machine.