Attn: NHRA / IHRA Tech .....here we go again ..

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

Terry....maybe I'm wrong but as I recall Bob Maxey might have had a delay box before they were common......Maybe it was just the typical rumors made up about people that won to much.......He won a lot.....

It was just a rumor. I lived near him and did his cylinder heads and his customer heads for years. I also helped work on the early station wagons (he won a ton with a 60 Pontiac 389 SD station wagon before any of this stuff was ever thought of) and the Firebird. Also the Pontiac Astre (which was re bodied later) he bought from the late Pete Kost. His cars and engines were as quality built as any class legal car back in those days. He even won an early S/G event at Maple Grove foot braking the car. It barley ran 9.90 flat out at that time. It wasnt until about the last couple of years he raced that he threw in the towel and installed a delay box. He was fighting an up hill battle against the dragsters and other cars that ran them. He was way to stubborn to "Drop Down" or lower himself to race in the the foot brake class to continue racing. I tried to talk him into racing the foot brake catagory but he would have none of it. He was just that good until old age caught up with him. He was one of a few "Pure" drivers I ever knew. A Mike Gilroy (younger in age) from the same area is another pure driver and still races but he to went to a low 7 second dragster with every bell and whistle know to man to stay competitive. A few others have passed on or have gotten to old are still around. The electronics made everyone a good driver.
P.S. the Mike Gilroy I mentioned won one of the last Div. 1 bracket finals at Maple Grove in Super Pro with a 455 Pontiac powered Camaro before the delay boxes came into use.