Out With the New and In With the Old.

[Rich Biebel]

Originally Posted by Isaac Zane

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I think that there were 32 or more C/SM at the Summers. I seem to remember Jim saying that there would be 6 rounds of class and that the winner probably needed a fresh engine for eliminations....

The shop I worked at.....3 of us had cars. I ran my 69 Camaro in SS/JA ( it was never very fast)
We also had a C/ED car...front engined for a time.....

and a C/SM......the C/SM was driven by Dennis Siderko and I traveled with him quite a bit. We spent an enormous amount of time working on that car and especially the engines for it. Dennis was number 3 on the qualifying sheet in '79 I think it was, and got down to 4 cars in class. We were subsequently tossed in the barn for a really miniscule infraction......but none the less no matter how much we plead our case we were out.....very heartbraking to say the least to us all and especially the shop owner.......I still recall the ET's.....GarleyDaniels went 10.32.....Billy Mansell was #2 and we went 10.42 for #3.......

The last 4 cars?....not sure here but we lost to Walt Siler in a close one.... and I can't recall who won that year. Maybe Roger White.......Garley redlit in rd 1 or 2 probably to save parts....His car was awesome and almost always faster than anyone else....

Dennis made one run on the back bumper into 3rd gear and ran a 10.60......

Billy Mansell won the eliminator.......

I loved the time I spent hanging in the lanes during Modified Eliminator in those days.......