Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

Cool video!

I'd like to know where all those Corvettes are today...

Jeff Jewell

Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

I don't think he was. Some of the drivers in that video are: Dennis Mitchell, Chubby Holmes, Tim Freeman, Mark Osbourne, and Bill Puckett.

Wayne.

Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

I can understand it from your perspective but to me that is not real drag racing. And just look at 'all' the spectators in the stands.

Need I say more?

M68

Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

Some tracks drew big crowds ...and that track was one of them as I recall. There were lots of spectators even at my local track sometimes on a saturday night in the '60s. Those days are long gone. It was a different time and era for lots of reasons. If you view real dragracing as only high reving stick shift door cars..."to each his own" as the saying goes. They were fun to watch and race as I said but those days went the way of the rotary telephone.......

Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

"9200-9300 every run" I remember some guys at Marion SD running like 6.50 or 6.17 rear end gears and leaving at like 11,000. Man, my brain can't handle that, but it was sure cool. They used to break rocker studs a lot.

Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

Over 10,000 was usually reserved for the little destroked motors..........272 cubes was a common one if I recall right......I also think there was a gearset over 7-1

Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

Rich,

I think you could get a 7:17 for the Dana. You could get 6:20 and 6:50's for the Ford 9". I ran a 5:67 in my Mustang, a SBF w/steel rods and 8,000+ rpm = alot of scattered parts. A crap budget and big dreams contributed to much of that as well. If you weren't breaking motors, you were shelling driveshafts, axles or in my case a third member.

The part about high maintenance was true as well. Even most of the well funded guys had a hard time keeping these things upkept.

That was another time, I can still recall cranking the gears on my Mr. Gasket inline shifter. Those days are gone forever, only to be relived by those of us that experienced them.

Robert Swartz

Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

Indeed.

I like Stockers and Super Stockers regardless of transmission--even Comp cars--but I must admit, those high-rpm, stick cars are my favorite to watch since day one except not as much as it used to be thanks to the two-step rev limiters that most guys use nowadays.

What I view as not "real" drag racing is bracket racing with its plethora of electronics, virtually all-automatic transmission field, the "let's overbuild it, short-shift it so we can get 1000 runs out of the engine" mentality; driving games and sandbagging of every sort; and in more than a few cases, less than professional appearing/built cars.

And don't get me started on all the front wheel drive imports and the baggy pants-wearing, "yo-yo-yo, wazzup" crowd associated with them which now infest drag strips. :)

Believe me, I have no contempt or disrespect for people involved with bracket racing. I can fully understand the reasons from a cost and maintenance perspective. But it's just not my "cup of tea," and like you said: "to each his own."

Unfortunately, you are 100% correct.

Regards,

M68

Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

Just look at the crowds exactly!!! Stick Cars rule !

Re: IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's
 

Ernie"THE ANIMAL" Price still lives the dream.

Hammer

PS If you ever get the chance to watch him, don't miss it.