32nd annual "Hot Rod & Custom Car Show" in Ocean City Maryland October 5-6, 2012

 This Car show will be held in conjunction with the "Endless Summer" event in OC each fall.  The cars will be in the Convention Center on Friday and Saturday.  Then we can Cruise on Saturday night and Sunday...Sweet 

The Mahaffey Motorsports "Firefighter Special" Corvette

 This is my Favorite T-Shirt because it very closely depicts what my finished Corvette Super/Stock Racer will look like.  It will have a strong Firefighter theme throughout the car, although subtle and very classsy!  It will be very evident that this man has loved the Fire Department and Championship Drag Racing since he was a young man!   

Mahaffey's new shroud concept, It's another first in my quest to be the best. Mechanical and Electric fans together in one shroud. Never been done before

 

Wow, the lift is a hit! The ability to clean all the street wear from under the Roadster was the difference, and won a TOP 75 award at the East Coast Indoor Nationals

 

Roadster, first car on the new lift

 

Shop rebuild is really comming along nicely

 I have done all the work myself, I just like it that way.  I take my time and put forth the extra effort to get it right and then some.  The prolonged rain stretch we've had around here has'nt helped things either.  I love the challenge of building it alone, much in the same way I build my cars.  For me, it's not what you can buy, it's what you can create yourself. 

Shop rebuild/upgrade is underway

 Irene may have been a blessing!  I always wanted a lift in the shop for under car fabrication, but did'nt have the ceiling hight required.  So I decided to rebuild the damaged area at 12 ft high to give me the room I need.  The other thing I have been wanting is a paint booth.  Again I have decided to use the area (20X24) just past the damage for a paint booth/finishing room/clean room.  Anyway, I have been doing all of the rebuild by myself, because I like it that way.  I've had many offers to help from my Fire Department and Hot Rod buddies, truth is I like doing things myself....go figure.   

Hurricane Irene damages the shop

 Hurricane Irene dropped two lage trees into the shop on 8/28/11.  A forty inch diameter tree crushed thru the roof destorying ten roof truss' and cutting four feet into the wall.  The damaged area did not hurt any cars or equitment, just made a huge mess and alot of work to repair. 

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My Girl Video

 

Why are there no driver warning devices down track in drag racing?

We all see warning devices on a daily bassis.  Most of these devices warn us of safety situations (ie thermal, electrical, mechanical), or things that will cost us money (ie your car guages, overheating, no oil pressure).  Racers competing at high speeds need advanced warnings of dangerous conditions on the race course.  They have this in place at the motor-cross races with flag men on the corners.  In NASCAR and other round (closed course) competition there are YELLOW lights that can be activated to advise of an oncourse incident.  In drag racing there is NOTHING!  WTH!  There needs to be a down track warning device that will inform the drivers of a race problems/issues.  It could be a track surface issue (ie fluid, parts, debris, animal, RAIN).  Or it could be a problem with one of the competitors cars that was noticed as they left the starting line.  I would have YELLOW warning devices at the 1/8th mile, 1/4 mile and last turn-off.  In conjunction, I would have the very large score boards FLASH the data on and off.  The starter should have a switch/device where he could flash the reds on the tree, and not depend on the tower for that.  Not running around waving his hands, (thats cave man comunication).  Early intervention is the name of the game, and the competitors are locked on the tree...ACTIVATE THE REDS!  An official should be positioned down track who would also have a controller for the warning devices.  He would be able to see top end issues that the starter may not.  Last but not least, the extremely fast cars may need a radio controlled warning device in the car.     

 

Wade Mahaffey   

Ocean City Indoors at the Convention Center Show

 This is the Ocean City Hot Rod Show, the first show of 2011.  The first for my fresh built Turntable, I finished building it at midnight Thursday.  Friday morning at 8am I was unloading it, in the Convention Center.  Two hours later the car was on it and rotating.  The Roadster picked up a 1st Place award

Northeast Rod & Custom Car Nationals

Had a great time at the show, with the Roadster on the turntable!

Local news paper article

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Brandywine VFD

Open House @ Brandywine VFD

Had a good time with these young people as part of the open house.  I gave them all a copy of my fire safety handout, and hopefully they will never have to use the information inside.  But it is very nice to know what to do in an emergency situation.  Anyway, thank you to Mike Lantz for the invitation, and to all of the members of the Brandywine Volunteer Fire Department for their service to the community. 

SOMD news article

On Wed. 10/13 I got together with Chris Basham and Reid Silvermman to do a news paper article on myself.  I thought it was going to be about my safety programs for kids, but not sure now.  Anyway, it should appear on news stands wed the 20th.  We did alot of on the road in-traffic shots, Reid Silverman is very good behind the camera.  I took both for a ride to get them in the zone, hopefully it will add to the flavor of the article. 

East Coast drag Times Hall of Fame @ Henderson, NC

 It was standing room only for about a mile in the streets of Henderson.  Thousands of spectators flooded the town to the point that you could not see the hundreds of cars on display.  There were two stages with live bands (complete with the horn sections) and one large DJ trailer and all were playing that Carolina beach shag music.  The show focused on historic drag cars, drivers, and personalities.  Added to that were hundreds of show cars from all over the region.  Mrs. Nancy Wilson is the producer/director for the annual event.  Officials seal off the main drag thru town (Garnett St.) for the festivities.  Covering the event was the crew from SPEED-HD TV's "My Classic Car" with host Dennis Gage.  Later on in the evening, after the crowds died down, something was brewing.  Dennis and Nancy were preparing to do a lead-in interview for the story, and they wanted a car for the back drop.  Guess who's car they picked..... They got in the car and mic'd up for sound, even switched seats half way thru.....So we will have a cameo in an upcomming episode that is to air around Feb 2011 according to the crew. Wow!  

Solomans Island is about to get serious

Derek, Hope and I were out and about cruisin on a Friday evening, and came upon this......WOW!  The big off shore racers are in town on 10/2-10/3.  The engineering and fabrication was unreal, and these things are LARGE