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Originally Posted by Rich Biebel
And for everyone that thinks they were great...well they were but you couldn't race one by yourself. The amount of work needed to fix stuff and keep the car running when it broke was too much usually for one person. Driveline breakage was pretty bad before they had good transmissions and clutches. Motors took a beating at those rpms.
I'll take modern delay box, big tow truck motor, throttle stopped racing anyday.....Maintenance consists of a wash and wax between races, maybe an oil change and add fuel between rounds.....Way better than trying to change a blazing red hot burned up busted up clutch!
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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