22R Era
Numerous races were won in the late 90′s and early years of the 21st century with driver Thomas Chappell. Since the mid 90′s, the young Adams brothers had traveled to the racetrack to watch the car owned by their father Bill Adams, and driven by Thomas Chappell have much success including a track championship in 1998. To be quite honest, this Toyota dominated the Mini Stock class for countless years.
With technology evolving and new rules coming out, a new direction needed to be taken to keep up with the times and the competition. While many tracks still considered Mini Stocks as an entry level class, Dixieland Speedway located in Elizabeth City, NC was slowly starting to evolve this class into a breed of its own. Around the turn of the new century, tube chassis were becoming popular at the local dirt tracks. While this transition was mostly at the top level division such as the Late Models, the 4 cylinders had a growing interest. Around this time, Dixieland Speedway was beginning to allow the transition of a stock 4 cylinder vehicles to a more modern tubular chassis. During the Winter of 2000, preparation began to start building the first ever truck chassis to be ran at Dixieland Speedway. The front clip was a S10 chassis and the rear of the car was a tubular chassis. The first year was a learning experience with no wins on record. That next 2001 season would still have some learning curves to overcome since nothing had been done like this before. With marginal success, hopes were still very high that a consistent, fast racecar had been built in a home garage with minimal resources and a limited budget. In 2002, the transition would begin to allow Brad Adams to take over the wheel towards the end of that season. The learning curve was steep to say the least. Keep in mind that unlike most racers, Brad had no experience racing at all. He had never raced go karts like most racers and had no clue what it was like to be in a racing environment. The closest he came to those conditions would be a local fun amusement park that had go karts for pure entertainment.
With technology evolving and new rules coming out, a new direction needed to be taken to keep up with the times and the competition. While many tracks still considered Mini Stocks as an entry level class, Dixieland Speedway located in Elizabeth City, NC was slowly starting to evolve this class into a breed of its own. Around the turn of the new century, tube chassis were becoming popular at the local dirt tracks. While this transition was mostly at the top level division such as the Late Models, the 4 cylinders had a growing interest. Around this time, Dixieland Speedway was beginning to allow the transition of a stock 4 cylinder vehicles to a more modern tubular chassis. During the Winter of 2000, preparation began to start building the first ever truck chassis to be ran at Dixieland Speedway. The front clip was a S10 chassis and the rear of the car was a tubular chassis. The first year was a learning experience with no wins on record. That next 2001 season would still have some learning curves to overcome since nothing had been done like this before. With marginal success, hopes were still very high that a consistent, fast racecar had been built in a home garage with minimal resources and a limited budget. In 2002, the transition would begin to allow Brad Adams to take over the wheel towards the end of that season. The learning curve was steep to say the least. Keep in mind that unlike most racers, Brad had no experience racing at all. He had never raced go karts like most racers and had no clue what it was like to be in a racing environment. The closest he came to those conditions would be a local fun amusement park that had go karts for pure entertainment.
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