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Rich Biebel · 01-03-2015, 01:24 PM

The car was weighed without the driver and with 5 gals of gas.

We set a record and were asked to drain the fuel tank after the backup run. The car was not much over the shipping wt. More than 5 gals came out so the back up run was disallowed.

We added a spare tire but time ran out and we did not get that record that day.

The driver on both runs was probably over 200lbs....

Many rules from the past really needed changing....that was one...

And the 7" tire rule was dangerous.....and definitely needed changing well before bigger tires were allowed.

Big Block Stockers were running 120mph on 7" tires with narrow rims....

01-03-2015, 01:24 PM	#9
Rich Biebel VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern New Jersey suburbs Posts: 2,315 Likes: 25 Liked 544 Times in 213 Posts	Re: Items allowed by NHRA over the years The car was weighed without the driver and with 5 gals of gas. We set a record and were asked to drain the fuel tank after the backup run. The car was not much over the shipping wt. More than 5 gals came out so the back up run was disallowed. We added a spare tire but time ran out and we did not get that record that day. The driver on both runs was probably over 200lbs.... Many rules from the past really needed changing....that was one... And the 7" tire rule was dangerous.....and definitely needed changing well before bigger tires were allowed. Big Block Stockers were running 120mph on 7" tires with narrow rims.... __________________ Rich Biebel S/C 1479 Stock 147R