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Bowling Green, KY. 1978. The late, great, Larry Kopp up first.

Wayne.

http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/k...WLINGGREEN.flv

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Old Modified stuff is really cool to see now. Rev limiters be damned !! I like seeing that 132 ft speed trap too ! Thats another thing gone ! 5 amber trees, etc etc. People used to say they had a saying to "count" the tree then.

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Nothing will ever replace those high winding modified cars of the past, those guys where drivers, the crew all wrapped up in one.
I'll always remember my days watching modified and helping my father run it and running around with Virgil Cates when he ran A/G also.
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I ran in that race with my 68 camaro.so did jim pursglove in his vette.seems like only yesterday! Ha!

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Music to my ears,.....if I could only turn my computer up louder !!

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Man, that was great!! Thank you!!

I was there with my C/SM '69 Camaro. Lost a clutch, didn't even make 1st round. That car broke stuff until it broke me. <G>

Does anybody know if Pete Smith is still with us? He was another one of my favorite racers. Very nice guy.

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Ed,

Heard he is living somewhere around the Conroe area. The Emmons Brothers know for sure.

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Good to hear Todd. Thanks. Good driver, good guy. Pete sure didn't mind zinging that thing up on the starting line. I loved watching him and several others.

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ESPN should take a look at those videos. More exciting than watching pro stock today...dave doing the commentary..the way it was filmed made them look like they were going faster than they were and it was really fun to watch....I don't get it with them not airing sportsman shows today but i guess when you watch them now they make them look boring.....man did they put on a show back then...too bad I was too young and missed all the fun.

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Pete was hard on the motors but that's what it took to run the numbers. If I remember correctly, he left the line a little over 11 grand, might have even been close to twelve. Hell, I was in the car while he was checking the timing and it zinged to almost 10,000 on that big Moroso tach. I had Fresh underwear after that.

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The tattle tail on his tach was up around 11000 every time I looked at it. Hard to stand by the starting line and watch some of those guys make a pass without grinning like a fool. Very cool.

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Ed,

Seems like when I think of Pete's Vette, I also think of Bear's bug and Billy Mansell. I really miss those days. Hopefully you have seen the Houston Points meet video on youtube as well as video from Eastex Dragstrip.

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Guys, every time any one mention modified I think of Paul Mercure. When ever I bring the subject with him I see that look on his face and he start talking about modified and the stories are awsome,,,Luke

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I owe my racing S/SS to these guys racing these cars and to the track owners of yesterday that allowed us teenagers to stand right behind or next to these cars as they staged and launched (damn insurance companies took all the fun away!). Watching the Knobloch - Yancer - Faulkner '63 Vette with one of those high windin' SBC and a stick and the tach clearly visible from the rear window pegged at 11K or more.
That's what got the blood moving and made me want my own someday.
My engines are now built by Bud Yancer of MACH Development. Yep, same guy!

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Jeff, funny thing you mention your engine builder, I have Paul Mercure build my engines

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Jeff,

How about holding the car in the water and/or pushing the car back and forth while the driver was doing the burnout!!!

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Todd,

You make this sound like a bad thing, LOL!

Robert Swartz

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I've ruined several shirts, holding cars in the burnout. LOL Here's a couple of photos I took in 1974 at the old Ringgold, Georgia track called "Drag City". These were both modified cars, I don't recall the Camaro driver's name, but check out the two guys holding the rear of the car, lost in the smoke. The second photo is Wayne Barker's B/Gas Nova. This is the same Wayne & Stanley Barker that had the Pro Mod Monte Carlo SS named "Super Toy" in the late eighties and early nineties.

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k.../DRAGCITY1.jpg

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k.../DRAGCITY2.jpg

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jeff,would that be billy knobloch from Performance Chevrolet mail order Arizona ,he advertised in super stock magazine for years and has machine shop services.i bought a lot of parts from him through afriend of his in derby,new york,great deals.seen the corvette at indy one year.