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Old 03-19-2009, 01:28 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN View Post
Nothing will ever bring back the 60's and early 70's. Ya had to be there to understand how it was. NO $100,000+ stockers and S/S cars. Jrs. stock races every weekend at your local track, no reaction timers, cool muscle cars at the track every weekend, Neat factory wars, Jr. stockers everywhere, class run off's with 15-20+ cars in a class, no acid/ported heads in stock, Pro stock had real 4-speeds and were muscle car bodies and no little bitty puke compacts like vegas and pintos. Im glad I had the chance to live thru the era.
Double that Loved the racing even into the late 70's but did not realize what history I was watching/doing at the time. Mark Janaky, Dell Jones and Jim Sheilds are keeping some of this alive.
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