B & B Race Cars Customer News 2007 Archive

Merry Christmas & Happy New Years!

We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2007 was a very good year for B & B Race Cars and everyone here is excited about 2008! Seven new cars are scheduled to roll out of the shop after the first of the year and many more in the wings. We looking forward to helping our customers dominate their classes in Super Stock, Competition Eliminator and 10.5 Tire Classes.

We currently have openings available for new cars with completion dates of Mid to Late Summer. If you're ready to upgrade to a new car, now is the time to call us and get your order in!

Gary Richards got a nice write up in the November 2007 edition of MaxChevy Magazine . Gary's Chevy Cobalt is "Chevy of the Month"!

Check out the "Cobalt Bombers" Story...

At first glance this lil' Cobalt looks somewhat similar to many of the Cobalts that roll out the shop door here at B & B, but if you look close you'll see some differences that give a hint to it's totally evil intentions. Whose car is this? What's the powerplant? What class?

Stay tuned for more news about "Lil Nasty"...

Lamb wins Pacific Sports Nationals - Richards sets record in Maple Grove!

Justin Lamb put his 07 Cobalt into the Winners Circle once again this year with a win at the NHRA Jegs Pacific Sports Nationals in Fontana, California. Justin defeated Darren Smith, the national points contender in the final round after dispatching Wayne Taylor, Brian McClanahan and Glenn Snow during his way up the ladder. Way to Go Justin!

Also in the news Gary Richard reset the GT/BA Record in Maple Groove with a 9.25 and was #1 Qualifier! Congratulations Gary!

October Busy Month at B & B Race Cars

B & B has been keeping the shop humming during October with numerous projects in progress. Here's a glipse out in the shop showing several new cars in progress and a few cars in the shop for some updates.

There's also a top secret 10.5 Tire Monster hiding in the corner... stay tuned for news on this new beast that will be shaking windows around the shop in the near future!

September 24th John Coughlin grabbed the points lead in NHRA Division 3 Super Stock after his victory in Atco NJ. Coughlin battled through 7 rounds to face former Champ, Jim Harrington in the final round. Coughlin's SS/CM Cobalt ran a 8.677@145.59 defeating Harrington in his SS/AS Camaro who ran 9.513@141.06.

John has taken the car to 8 divisional events this year and only lost in the first round one time. Congratulations Mr. Coughlin on a well earned victory!

Also at Atco, Gary Richard, the number three qualifier in Super Stock, set a new SS/GTAA record 9.09@145.59mph! Way to go Gary!!!

Justin Jenkins won the NHRA Division 5 Super Stock Class at Topeka August 25th.

That's a win in less than one month after picking up the car... needless to say it sounds like it's working for him!

Jenkins of Marysville, Kansas defeated Bub Miller from Overland Park, Kansas 9.916@133.95 vs. Millers losing 10.103@131.65 - both cars were in GT/CA.

Justin also won his second NHRA Best Appearing Award with his new 07 Cobalt at Topeka! Wow - what a weekend for the Jenkin's Team! Congratulations from your friends at B & B Race Cars...

Also last weekend;

Royce Freeman drove the new Freeman/Sharp car at Topeka. He qualified #9 on his FIRST pass down the track with a 8.36 pass without any test passes. Freeman then went several rounds and got to the semifinals, not too bad for the 1st race out!

John Coughlin went to Bowling Green, Kentucky and drove his B & B Built JEGS.com Cobalt to a quarter final finish!

We can't wait for INDY!!!

Justin Lamb got his first Super Stock win in his 06' Cobalt during the NHRA Division 6 race August 19th in Acton, Montana.

Lamb qualified #1 in SS/BS at 9.266, 1.254 under the index! He then went on to defeat Jackie Alley in the final round with a 9.344@137.39 to Alley's 10.276@122.93.

Congratulations Justin on your win and qualifying #1!

Richard Freeman and Lee Sharp picked up their team's brand new Pontiac G5 on Friday, August 10th. Check out the cool stripes!

Also in this weekend's race news, Justin Jenkins took his new Cobalt to the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd Int’l Raceway. Justin won Best Appearing, Won Class and went a couple of rounds. They are VERY happy with the new car!

Don Baskin and Justin Jenkins took delivery of their brand new Chevy Cobalts Friday, August 3rd.

Don Baskin will be campaigning the orange car and Justin Jenkins will be competing in the blue multicolor Cobalt.

Jenkins took it to Huntsville right after picking his car up and went 5 rounds with it right off the trailer! Needless to say he's real happy with the new car. He's not the only one, Justin's Dad had this to say; "It looks too nice to be going down the track. It ought to be in a car show. Darren you are doing a really nice job on the car, I can't wait to see it. Thanks Bill Jenkins"

B & B Customers made quite an impact in Super Stock at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway in Tennessee. Arnie Martel went 8.964 in SS/BS, 1.086 under the index to land the #1 qualifier spot, followed up by James Caro at #4 , Don Barber in the #5 position and Peter Biondo in Arnie Martels Cobalt in the #11 spot. Peter Biondo was cutting down the tree all day and was able to take home the final round win in Super Stock defeating Tom Sheehan. Peter Biondo said "Arnie Martel's Speedco Cobalt is one of the most beautiful cars he has ever driven, adding that the car is enjoyable to drive even in time trials." in the July 27, 2007 issue of National Dragster.

Also at Bristol, Hugh Meeks made his first appearance with his new car and Brian Latino won Best Engineering with his New B & B G5 Pontiac. That's the 9th B & B Race Car to win the award in 2 years! It sure makes us proud to see the success our customers have in cars we have built, way to go guys!

John Coughlin had a real good weekend at Norwalk in anyone's book. Coughlin qualified his new 07' Cobalt in the top spot with a 8.686@155.31 which is more than a full second under the SS/BM index. Team Jegs then collected a Wally for winning the SS/BM class during Friday's eliminations. Coughlin went on to win 4 elimination rounds where he finally missed his reaction time a bit but still hit his dial-in.

John commented "I’m pretty happy with the way our Jegs Mail Order Cobalt performed this weekend. This is still a new car and with each passing week, I feel more and more comfortable and while we didn’t win this race, we did learn a lot and we also picked up some valuable points.”

Congratulations John & Team Jegs, it's great to see the new car is working good for you!

Bryon Latino of Donaldsonville, LA picked up his new B & B Super Stock Pontiac G5 this week. Latino, currently ranked 79th in Super Stock points was class winner of the Jegs Sport Nationals in SS/DM this year in his previous car.

That previous car, a red 1990 Trans Am was the very first B & B car to roll out of our shop, #001, which makes it special around here. We're excited to see Bryon come back to B & B for his new G5 and can't wait to see how he does at the upcoming race in Bristol!

Gary Richards won the NHRA Best Appearing Cars Award at Englishtown with his new pair of matching 07' Chevy Cobalts. Richards races the cars in NHRA Competition Eliminator and Super Stock classes. At Englishtown he also won his class in SS.

Also at Englishtown, Arnie Martel was the #1 Qualifier in Super Stock and won his class. Way to go guys!

Congratulations Mr. Johnson!!

B & B Customers had a great weekend at the NHRA JEGS.com Cajun SPORTSnationals held at No Problem Raceway Park.

• John Coughlin won Best Engineered with his new 07 Cobalt, won Class in SS/CM and was #3 Qualifier. John went 3 rounds in Super Stock.
• Team Caro/Stancil won Class SS/BM, #2 Qualifier
  in Super Stock and set the National Record in SS/BM.
• Cordis Johnson went to the Semi's in Competition Eliminator.
• Byron Latino won Class SS/DM and went 3 rounds.
• Roger Green won Class in GT/FA and went 4 rounds.

B & B Race Cars had a great weekend and really enjoyed spending some time at the races with our customers. The Coughlin Brothers could not have been a nicer bunch to work with, they really went out of their way to treat us and their fans great.

Huth Meeks III had his new B & B 07 Cobalt out testing at Montgomery Motorsports Park April 22nd. We're hearing the new car has been laying down some real good numbers already, not bad for it's first weekend out!

Photo Courtesy DragCoverage.com

Gary Richards picked up his 2nd Brand New
B & B Race Car in April and it's a beauty. This stunning Chevy Cobalt has a 25.2 chassis specifically designed for NHRA Super Modified Competition Eliminator class. Gary also campaigns a B & B built Cobalt in NHRA Stock Eliminator.

This car is the 15th Super Stock & Comp Eliminator car that has rolled out of the B & B Chassis Shop since 2005, and like all the others, it was delivered on time. Right now we have 5 more Cobalts and G5's that are scheduled for delivery in the next two months for our clients. It's been a busy year and we're very thankful to have so many wonderful customers to work with.

Good luck to Gary with his new car, we hope to be reading about it in the record books soon!

NHRA Spring Nationals

Rain showers didn't keep the racers away, but it did prevent them from finishing eliminations at the NHRA Spring Nationals at Houston Raceway Park. The team of Sonny Stancil / James Caro qualified #2 in Super Stock and Cordis Johnson qualified #6 and went to the quarter finals. NHRA has announced this race will be finished up on April 7th.