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"That race at the Motorplex reminded me how much fun racing is." -- Randall Klein

Randall Klein has always had an interested in drag racing. But after the dragstrip he frequented near Omaha closed in 1972, he didn't spend much time around the sport. Eventually, Nebraska Motorplex opened in Scribner but Klein's interest in the sport had waned a little, although the Lincoln native had built a 1956 Nomad station wagon that he drove around town and entered in car shows.

There was one event at Nebraska Motorplex that piqued his interest and Klein entered the wagon in "Rockin' Rods," a specialty race for classic cars. From that point, drag racing once again had more of his attention.

"That race at the Motorplex reminded me how much fun racing is and I started entering Super Chevy Shows and bracket races," recalls the 53-year-old Klein, who, long with his wife Judy, has owned and operated Klein Surveying Systems in Lincoln since 1977.

The racing bug that bit Klein then was a slow mover. At first he was content with the limited involvement of bracket races. But then, in 1989, a dragstrip opened at Heartland Park Topeka in Kansas. Klein began racing in NHRA's Super Street class with a 1969 Camaro. Then he built a Chevy II and ran it in Stock Eliminator and, finally, decided to adjust the Nomad so it could run in the Super Stock class.

After a year, Klein decided to tweak the car and run it in a quicker category within Super Stock. That's when he really started to have fun again. He began to travel on the NHRA divisional points circuit and found that his little wagon was a national record contender. He began going to races just to take a shot at setting records.

"We set and lost the record two or three times in that car," laughed Klein. "We'd developed some good friendships at the races and got a friendly rivalry going with a family from Texas, trading the record back and forth. And, being from Nebraska, we also get some good football rivalries going, too. Especially in Texas."

Since he got back into drag racing, Klein has built another racecar. This one, a 1957 Chevy, Klein says, is a true racecar. He says that the wagon tends to be, "a little schizophrenic," and doesn't run well in the heat. But the '57 runs well in most conditions.

Last year, Klein and his racing partner, Ron Taylor, had their best year ever. Klein, with his car tuned by Taylor, won the West Central division championship in Super Stock. He won two NHRA Federal-Mogul Drag Racing Series events - at Heartland Park Topeka and at Tri-State Raceway in Earlville, Iowa - and was runner-up at Texas Motorplex in Dallas and at Bandimere Speedway in Denver. He also placed fifth in the national points standings and earned the right to represent the division at this year's NHRA Sportsman Allstar event in Columbus, Ohio.

Klein went into this season looking to defend his title and earn another spot on the Allstar team. He says if he wins his first NHRA national event along the way, it will be a bonus. Currently, he's leading the division points battle and will look to increase his lead at the O'Reilly Auto Parts Summer Sizzle, a round of the NHRA Federal-Mogul Drag Racing Series, at the Nebraska Motorplex, Aug. 10-12, 2001.