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Old 11-06-2008, 09:16 PM   #16
Robert Swartz
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Default Re: What everr happened to the good ol' days

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Originally Posted by BRIAN SEATE View Post
Things have changed a great deal since the eighties. Some good changes and some bad changes. I stood at the top end with my dad when Modified ran and will never forget the experience. My parents let me skip school on Fridays of Rockingham Nationals. My uncle Marshall ran Super Stock at the time. My dad got us all started of course, I have his first trophy. He ran pure stock at Person County N.C. with a new 67 396-350 Chevelle / 4-speed no less. By the way, my fist job on the crew was keeping the choke pushed in on the old ramp truck! Hey a kids gotta start somewhere! Remember the past,embrace the future, and enjoy right now.............and never forget what a Modified Vette sounds like in the traps! I know you all were referring to the sixties and seventies, but think of the change that has occurred since the mid eighties.
Brian,

I got my start in the early 70's. Raced into the 80's, parked my car in 1988. We drove to the track,later we towed with tow bars. Eventually I bought a trailer, still have it to this day. I'm just getting my feet wet, slowly trying to get reinviolved in racing.

It was starting when I left racing but seems to be even more intense today. It amazes me how much people are tying up in tow vehicles and trailers.
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