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Introduction:
Who am I? Some call me Joe some call me Monk I'm comfortable with either name.
I am president of the Flywheelers Car Club and have been a member since 1974. Our club dates back to the summer of 1954 and was one of the founding 21 clubs that made up the G.S.T.A. (Gopher State Timing Association). Our association’s home drag strip was “Minnesota drag ways” Our clubs roots grew out of south Minneapolis at the High Lake Shopping Center parking lot. It was at this time we had 18 guys attending with there hot rods and decided to form a club. We named ourselves the “FLYWHEELERS” and chose the colors black on white for our patches. The black represents the asphalt that we drag race on and the white represents the white tire smoke that rolls off our drag slicks. We would meet up in the parking lot and then hit one of the restraints to have our club meetings. This worked fine until the spring of 1956 when we rented our first club house/shop where we could build our club dragsters and hold our club meetings. In 1972 the club voted in a new look and we dropped the black on white patch on denim vests and went to blue windbreakers with blue and yellow colors and a new center patch. This was done to change the look and to keep up with the rest of the clubs at the time. In 2004 it was now our 50th anniversary and we had been watching the growth of interest in Nostalgia drag racing over the last decade, so it was at this time we voted to return to our heritage and returning to our original colors and denim patch vest. Over the last 20 years many of our club members where also riding motorcycles so in the fall of 2007 we thought we would try a [MC] patch to see if it would work and if we could generate more membership interest. Well on 8-16-08 it was decided to drop the [MC] patch and just stick with our roots as a car club. You may see us riding our motorcycles with our club vests on but we are NOT! in any way representing ourselves as a Motorcycle club. We are a drag racing club that is embracing its heritage and nothing more.
We are professional showmen and talented craftsmen.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
For more information on us take a look at our web site at.
http://www.ch3ohracing.com
President
Joseph (Monk) Polnaszek
Flywheelers Car Club Inc.
PO BOX 18746
Minneapolis MN. 55418
I have been a hard core drag racer for most of my life. I made my first 200MPH fuel dragster pass back in 1976 earning my NHRA & IHRA competition drivers license's and have been drag racing at those speeds ever since. I have raced on drag strips all over this continent; I have raced in Mexico, Canada and all over the USA.
I own the “EXTREME” fuel funny car that is in my pictures and yes I still enjoy driving at speeds in excess of 200MPH very much. My life as a drag racer had me living on the road and sleeping in a tent for most of those years but I wouldn't have traded all that excitement for anything ells.
I made the decision many years ago to live the clean life, free of drugs and alcohol. It was definitely the right choice for me and it has made me a better man.
I'm just your average "Joe" that likes to get together with his friends. I always enjoy meeting people and making new friends.
I enjoy building and working on old hot rods & old choppers. I dig the older archaic /nostalgic machines the most.
Like most people, I have a job and pay my taxes.
I also pry for a simple life free of governmental chaos and deceit.
Politics suck no matter what aspect of them affects your life.
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Turn ons:
Original Old Choppers, Drag Racing, Hot Rods, Rat Rods, |
Turn offs:
Thieving Illegal immigrants, People that bread beyond there means, CEOs outsourcing American jobs and bleeding our nations economy dry in the process. The greedy oil cartel. |
Ideal:
I'm just looking for folks that like to go on rides & have fun with out drama. | |
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1970 Triumph Bonneville
Monk built this bike back in 1974. It was his first build as a 16 year old kid.
"Monk" "I still enjoy riding it today just as much as I did the day I rolled it out my shop door back in 74". |
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