In the planning stages of our 10th Anniversary our Sales Manager Mike Linley suggested that since our employees were not really getting a chance to run their cars down the track, maybe we could organize a "Pass-Time" style game show for a few lucky people from the car show. We thought about it, and all decided it was a great idea. If you have never watched the popular Pass-Time TV show on Speed channel, the basics are that you have contestants that try and guess the elapsed time of one car they have never seen go down the track before. The challenge is that they can only ask the driver one question to help them narrow a guess for the ET and whichever of the contestants is closest to the ET wins money. Cars can range from daily drivers or they can change up drivers to make it more interesting and don't forget the combo round where you have to guess the total ET of two cars going down the 1320 at the same time. Usually they wrap up the show with a really fast car to throw everyone off.

We decided to give it a try our own version at our LRS tenth anniversary. Travis, Charles, Mike and Don were all selected from the car show field and whoever guessed the closest on each pass would win a $100.00 gift certificate. The last round featured a $200.00 gift certificate.

Our employees running the cars were in order:

- Karson Swartz(Sales) in a 2004 Z06 Corvette with Kooks longtubes

- Bryan Mertz(Sales Supervisor) in a 2004 Mach1 with Magnaflow catback

-Tony Messina(Sales) in a 2004 Cobra with a whipple and more

- Jake Sehon(Distribution) in a 1970 Chevelle with a Brodix headed big block

- Combo round grudge match with Scott Springer(VP sales/marketing) 1978 Ford Faimont with a Ford Racing 3V and Scott Grimes(Research) and his 5.3 LS motor 1986 Mustang LXS coupe

- Brad Taylor(Manager of Advertising/Research) with a borrowed 2010 Roush 427R from our Roush Rep (Thanks Robert!)

- Jarrod Shelburne(Distribution) with a 2007 Mustang GT with cams and exhaust

- Danny Reich(Husband of Pam in Purchasing) with a 1992 Mustang LX coupe with a 408 running all motor

Mike was the big winner with $400, Travis won $100, Charles won $200 and Don won $200 gift certificates from LRS. The employees liked running as this was some of thier first times down the track, the contestants liked winning and the Texas Motorplex thought the idea was a great success and enjoyed hosting our version of "pass-time". Maybe if there is a next time, we can get the real Pass-Time TV show to come out and do it up even better!