Demolition Derby!

Yesterday was the Outlaw Demo Derby at the Huron County Fairgrounds! Although it was completely freezing outside, I just couldn't miss the event! Brian had a few cars in the demo to represent his bar, "Rupp's Place" that were in the compact car series, and my good friend, Bart Bergstedt had a truck in the truck series. The event started about 45 mins later than what it was suppose to because we were waiting on North Central EMS to arrive. But after 45 minutes of waiting and still no EMS personel, they said that the Norwalk Firefighters were trained for emergency situations and would be able to handle anything that happened...So the show finally began!


The 3rd heat was when Brian's cars were up for show. The one was painted red, white, and blue with Rupp's Place written on the hood, back, and sides...it was an old Honda car, and the other car was a white Ford Escort painted red with Rupp's Place all over it. Both cars ran pretty well, the little Honda got cornered and smashed up against the wall and the caught on fire...so they stopped the derby so the driver(Raymond) could jump out and to check to make sure everything was ok! Not much longer after that the little white car got smacked from behind and completely smashed the car up. The front end was as good as gold, but with no wheels in the back...it was a little hard to go anymore. They both had good runs, but neither one won the series.


Up next was the truck series...Bart had an old Chevy pick up truck, at first they didn't have the right rims for the tires on the truck so they had to run home and change out the rims so they would fit the bigger tires. Bart ran pretty good but by the end of the derby his truck looked like it was going to collapse in between the cab and the bed liner!

Around 5pm everything was done and over with and I couldn't get to my car fast enough to get home and sit infront of the heater to thaw out my body before having to go to Volleyball. It was such a cold day...but so much fun!

In the Pictures: Top: Rupp's Place car during the demo derby!
Middle: Car sitting on top of another car!
Bottom: Bart Bergstedt smashing into other trucks!