Sometimes

you wonder if some of your dreams will ever become reality. As you may have seen on themotorhood.com or on my Morice Mcmillin Drag Racing Facebook page, I was lucky enough recently to knock off a couple of pretty big dreams all in one day. Through a good friend, I got the opportunity to go over to Australia and meet drag racing legend Graeme Cowin. Graeme shouldn’t need any introduction; he was the first person in Australia to run a four-second pass — all the way back in 1993. He has won numerous Australian championships and has held many records in both Top Fuel and Funny Car. Graeme raced to a final in an NHRA event and has done more passes down a drag strip than I have had hot dinners. He’s also the man behind two very successful brands, Rocket Industries and Aeroflow Performance. Walking into Cowin Family Racing’s Aeroflow outlaw nitro funny car workshop, I felt like I had died and walked into heaven. With more than a couple of nitro funny cars and fuel altereds to drool over, I didn’t know where to look. Long story short, after I spent a day at the track and the workshop watching and learning about nitro funny cars, a deal was struck for me to drive one for Cowin Family Racing. Returning home, it still didn’t seem real, but, when I got the call from Graeme saying, “The boys will have your car done in two weeks, so best you and your guys book your flights”, it all became real! It being a couple of years since I had driven my funny car, and having driven only door cars since, I started to wonder if I would remember how to drive one, let alone one that had 90-per-cent nitro in the tank! We arrived in Sydney on Saturday morning, with the track booked for testing on the Sunday. Graeme had given me an idea of what the car was going to look like but hadn’t sent me any photos of it sign written. I was pretty excited