What I feel nhra needs to do?

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Bernie Cunningham

Art, I know I'm off ya Christmas card list already but you're really sounding pathetic now !!! Don't ya live in Florida, heck the sun shines down there 365 days a year or do ya have a nasty cloud over ya head all the time that's ready to piss just on you at a moments notice !!

The newer cars will never go away, it's called evolution, and we need 'em. (in the FX class that could be coming later) This year will see a huge amount of HP handed out with both new and the old, stay tuned !!!

There's plenty of new blood in Class racing, look around.

How the heck did NHRA come up with YOUR HP factor ????????? Now your concerned ?


NO NEW CLASSES NEED TO BE ADDED, PERIOD !!!!!! WTF ! nobody needs any such thing for US to survive.

bernie. My dear friend. You must be getting your stuff from the same guy as ed wrong.
Medical reasons, I understand.
I don't live in sunny Florida, never have.
I've never called for anything different to happen to the new cars. You crybabies were in charge of that one.
As far as HP goes thats my business not nhra's. Size matters.
And I never stated to add classes just to get the sheets on a lot of cars that are out there now. Like my Chrysler 300 with a 3.5 auto (not in the book) A lot of kids are driving imports that could race in stock but they aren't in the book.
No new classes just fill up nthe existing ones. But I guess that doesn't fit your game plan.
Maybe you shouldn't let "charlie" know that?
Look around and I see a bunch of "Cue Tips" in the staging lanes. Talking more about their doses of meds, and what hurt the most when they got up in the morning.
The only reason Stock and Superstock worked was the fact that you could race whatever your car was and and have fun. You could dream of racing a Dodge wagon like Pete Tritak. And go and buy that type of car for a reasonable price. Go to a junkyard for parts, work on it and get it to run. Now you have to lay out an awful lot of money to build a car for an "obscure" class. A ton of money to build one for a popular one ( how much did your cylinder heads cost?). Add the fact these old cars are hard to buy and cost a ton.
Very few people in the stands can relate to the cars of today. Even prostockers all look alike. You don't see the cars that people have at home. It might as well be Fomula 1 racing.
At Atlanta 2 years ago Jimmy Rozello (convertble CJ)and I were pitted in the same row. Between us there were 2 1st gen Camaros and a 70 something Nova. All 3 cars had beautiful paint jobs (or wraps) Super clean engine compartments etc. We all had our hoods open.
Well Jimmies car had 10 or 12 people around it most of the time, I have 6 or 8 around me most of the time. Everyone of those people walked past the Camaros and the Nova without a second look. Do you realize how many people come up to me and tell me the have a neon just like mine. How do I make it go so fast? Where do I hide the turbo? That things got an automatic in it?
What do people say to you? Pretty car?