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House of Darts · 07-04-2008, 01:07 AM

There was an article in Car Craft magazine somewhere between 1972-75. Similar scare as to what is the future of drag racing. Their apocolyptic vision..... Pull your car into a building that resembled a self serve car wash. Put your money into the slot. A timing tree flashed and a simulated picture of a race track would run while you shifted the gears. Then you pulled out and went home. The gas crunch of the 70's, no more factory muscle cars, political correctness, Oprah, Al Gore,$ 5.50 diesel fuel, and another knee jerk reaction to an untimely event. I think that the "PROS" need to rember that all motor sports are dangerous. People come to see a show. 1000 feet or the 1/8 mile just doesn't cut it. Maybe the T/F and F/C racers should just do a burnout and be judged on just that. Wouldn't Force just like that. The pioneers of the class such as Gartlis, Dunn, etc. should come out of retirement and show the pretty boys that the Fuel class requires solutions to problems. R.I.P Scott, Eric,Darrell.

07-04-2008, 01:07 AM	#36
House of Darts Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 346 Likes: 19 Liked 20 Times in 15 Posts	Re: Pros to race to 1000' There was an article in Car Craft magazine somewhere between 1972-75. Similar scare as to what is the future of drag racing. Their apocolyptic vision..... Pull your car into a building that resembled a self serve car wash. Put your money into the slot. A timing tree flashed and a simulated picture of a race track would run while you shifted the gears. Then you pulled out and went home. The gas crunch of the 70's, no more factory muscle cars, political correctness, Oprah, Al Gore,$ 5.50 diesel fuel, and another knee jerk reaction to an untimely event. I think that the "PROS" need to rember that all motor sports are dangerous. People come to see a show. 1000 feet or the 1/8 mile just doesn't cut it. Maybe the T/F and F/C racers should just do a burnout and be judged on just that. Wouldn't Force just like that. The pioneers of the class such as Gartlis, Dunn, etc. should come out of retirement and show the pretty boys that the Fuel class requires solutions to problems. R.I.P Scott, Eric,Darrell.