[oldskool]

Yeah, I started out Towing my '69 GTO to the tracks with a '68 4-door Caddy. It had a 472 engine with plenty of power for towing and a huge trunk for tools and stuff.

Two tracks we ran, still had a flagman--no lights or timers. And the tracks were airstrips that were still in use. When a plane needed to land, they would buzz us and we would clear the track til the plane parked, then go back to racing.

In '73 we had to run hard street legal tires. I ran M&H tires, but they were hard street tires.

Then in '74 they allowed some street legal slicks with a couple of grooves in 'em. They were similar to the drag radials they have today. They knocked a half sec off my ET instantly.

Then in '75 we could run headers and 9" slicks. All this took place in north Louisiana. Don't know what they were doing anywhere else.

Then in '76 and '77 most of the smaller tracks in this area switched to bracket racing.