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INDY stopped being INDY when the heads up winner of class wasn't automaticly qualified for Stock Eliminator.

CLASS WINNERS and the fastest losers made up the 128 car field.

It's a brave new world out there..

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I will never forget the first time at Indy me and the boys are pushing my junk to the line and my lovely Wife totally up biased opinion showed up
Karen asks me what is a Ford escort doing racing in stock
I said honey that’s a fast car on the qualifying sheet
Her response was” That’s not a race car I had one of them new Biggest POS ever!”
Can’t argue that. Not a race car.
If you can go 120 or more under at Indy..YOU NEED THE HP HIT..
Common sense required

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....The way we were...
Can it be that it was all so simple then, or has time rewritten every line...If we had the chance to do it all again, Tell me, would we ? Could we ? MEMORIES.......Bob, many thanks for the trip down memory lane....

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So Billy and Bobby I have that combo that's a joke of a car or truck. I can go 1.80 under. I go to Indy with the AHFS still in place and not many of the real cars that can go say 1.30 under there are going to go that fast to get number 1 because of the even more added hp at the 1.30 under. I go 1.50 get my #1 spot at Indy and have my own ego rubbed. Not by me. Now you get your HP. Yes and next year you do it again but this time because of the HP added you can go only 1.50 under for the # 1 spot. Now you get more HP added and this time it hurts and you can only go 1.20 under. Now you take that combo to a real good stock engine builder and you are back right at 1.50 under again. Systems are built and racers will play the system the best we can. So I'll be at Indy God willing and hope I have more than I did last year. I haven't been out much this year but I have tested and been working on my car. B/SA is loaded with some pretty heavy hitters. So load up your cars come to Indy and find out if you can run with the big dogs or if you should have stayed on the porch and wined about it. James Perrone Please come to Indy. We will help you. My brother is no longer a G car.

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I hear you if your talking about the really old days, where no one had anything other than a real machine. But what about the ‘sort of old’ days, but not that old...where some joke of a 14 second fwd minivan, cavalier, or escort “ wins “ class and gets in, while the bumper dragging real race car that ‘only’ manages .850 under sits on the outside looking in?

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You mean like the entire filled with factory stock cars.

So tell me again about that .85 under real
racecar that couldn't make the field.

I agree with you except substitute Cobra jet or COPO for escort.

Why do you think winning class heads up at INDY shouldn't get you a spot in the eliminate.

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Two points.
If it's in the NHRA guide, it can be raced , therefore, Race Car.

Bumper dragging might get you a woodie , but it doesn't get you a Wally.

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So..........Barry, let me get this straight, you run a B/SA car and you're OK with what you said here. The "combo that's a joke of a car or truck" can get away with this at Indy for years with no repercussions and that's OK with you. Have you been checked for a concussion lately? I've got news for you, if you're running B/SA, even with a new Camaro, you're not playing the system very well. But you've apparently got plenty of time and money to throw around so you keep throwing!

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Are you talking about the "really old days" when the fields were full of 14 second 55-57 Chevys? I'm guessing that they were "jokes" too. But at least they were real cars.
Maybe you should try and get something other than a belly-button SS/GT Camaro to go fast sometime. You might find it very humbling.
Oh, by-the-way, if you're "dragging the bumper" in your "real race car", you're 4 link needs some attention.

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not to take anything away from the obscure combos n the effort put in those !! BUT !! Take a vote in the stands !! No one wants to drive a puss case escort or a omni cause its a top qualifier !! or a car that is considered totaled cause u need to spend a C note on gaskets for teardown !! stock ,super stock is about wheels up american muscle !! not puss cases that r in the guide for god knows what reason !! if its such a great accomplishment to get one of these to run !! y wouldn't u put in the same effort to drive a real race car ??