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Originally Posted by SSDiv6
When he showed up at the track many years ago with the 260-4bbl Olds Cutlass, the car had been in the books for many years and Bob built one based on data in the NHRA tech sheets like anyone one else could have done.
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Well I've got to call B.S. on this one. In 1991 I built one of those cars and at the time there was no intake number listed in the blueprint specs. Now I'd be lying if I said that i didn't know that it was a bogus combo when I built it. I called Jim Skelly who was, at the time working in Ca. for the Tech Dept. to get a legal intake # and Jim told me "don't build the car, it's a mistake". Jim was going to bring to Dave Danish's(?) attention and fix it. It never got fixed. So not "anyone" else could have done it and I did my car years before Bob did his.
I don't know exactly what happened and what ensued but it sure doesn't seem to me to deserve that kind of a penalty! And it really shouldn't matter whether he was, is or has been "skirting the system" anyway. He should only be penalized for what he was caught doing at the time.