dparker

Zip, your just showing our age. When everybody ran deep staging, 4 tenths tree, and we wanted to run a tenth faster et, all you had to do was shallow stage and Bam you just ran a tenth faster.. How I miss the good ole days..

zipper06

HAHa,

I hope i keep on showing my age for a long time, i saw the Greek, qualified for the NHRA show last weekend. I actually knew Kris in the 60's, in fact bought a set of his used slicks for a $100.00, also bought slicks from the Gusler top Fuel dragster. That was when i was running a blown sm/blk chey in a 56 t'bird. The announcer put his age at 79/80 yrs. old, i've got 9/10 yrs. to catch him and will continue to race as long as i can, in fact i was at the track last nite T&T, next race next sat. at Twin Cities, $2500.00 payout for s/pro 1/8 mi. race.

Zip.

Tod74

Did the staging beams pick up the horse's hoofs or the wagon wheels? What was the rollout on them bad boys anyway?

LOL JK

dparker

We would have to ask Zip about that, way before my time. Shoot the bbc 409 and bbf 427 were way before my time. Just think how great a sport to keep racers involved for over 50 years. My first pass was in 1982. How bout ya'll...................

zipper06

I gotta tell ya, it was fun in those days, i first ran in 1956 @ Oswego Il. won my first trophy with a 1939 La Salle Opera coupe, ran 18.40 about 80mph in E/stock, 10 yrs. later at Oswego, set a world record in A/Mod sports with a blown sm/blk chevy in a 56 t'bird.
I had the privilage of seeing all the greats run in those days some are still around today. I saw Sneaky Pete Robison out of Atlanta, spot Don Garlits a 100ft. at US 30 Dragway ind. Pete with a blown sm/blk, Garlits Hemi, and Pete outran him 2 out of 3. Sneaky Pete's dragster actually weighed less than 1,000lbs. You wouldn't think a person could grind that much off a sm/blk, but he actually ground off every boss, and everything inche of excess metal. In those days a lot of the guys was touring to make a living, stone,Woods and Cook, Tommy Ivo 4 Buick engined dragster etc. and Chgo. was a hot spot due to 4 Race tracks within a 75 mi. rad.

O'h well i could go on forever, but we've already high jacked this thread.

Zip.

wmeabates

Right about being fun at the track and on the street back then.I drove a 51 ford flat head to the first race i raced in 1961.Broke the trans in time tirals,watch the races then drove 120 miles from Erie to Pgh.In high gear only,But a flat head could start out up hill in high gear.63 nova 331 tunnel ram mod production in the late 60s 6.17 gear 120 mph wagon.I could go on all day also the crazzy head starts when they had time left an ran the winner of jr stock against the winner of mod elim,the 5 yellow light tree and on and on,But still at 65 this month I cant stop. Thanks for listening..Bill.

BEAST477

I thought we were adjusting rockers. :? Is this the same thread? LOL

dparker

correct amundo. Looks like a cool thread so I started one on the subject. Ever heard of a d d. My wife says I have it.

BEAST477

What was that parker I wasn't paying attention. LOL