IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's

[Jeff Jewell]

Cool video!

I'd like to know where all those Corvettes are today...

Jeff Jewell

[MEMORIES]

Originally Posted by FrankChastain

Thanks for the memories, Memories...Wonder if old Bob Calahand was there in that screaming Vet?

I don't think he was. Some of the drivers in that video are: Dennis Mitchell, Chubby Holmes, Tim Freeman, Mark Osbourne, and Bill Puckett.

Wayne.

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

And for everyone that thinks they were great...well they were but you couldn't race one by yourself. The amount of work needed to fix stuff and keep the car running when it broke was too much usually for one person. Driveline breakage was pretty bad before they had good transmissions and clutches. Motors took a beating at those rpms.

I'll take modern delay box, big tow truck motor, throttle stopped racing anyday.....Maintenance consists of a wash and wax between races, maybe an oil change and add fuel between rounds.....Way better than trying to change a blazing red hot burned up busted up clutch!

I can understand it from your perspective but to me that is not real drag racing. And just look at 'all' the spectators in the stands.

Need I say more?

M68

[Rich Biebel]

Originally Posted by mopar68

I can understand it from your perspective but to me that is not real drag racing. And just look at 'all' the spectators in the stands.

Need I say more?

M68

Some tracks drew big crowds ...and that track was one of them as I recall. There were lots of spectators even at my local track sometimes on a saturday night in the '60s. Those days are long gone. It was a different time and era for lots of reasons. If you view real dragracing as only high reving stick shift door cars..."to each his own" as the saying goes. They were fun to watch and race as I said but those days went the way of the rotary telephone.......

[rayfin]

"9200-9300 every run" I remember some guys at Marion SD running like 6.50 or 6.17 rear end gears and leaving at like 11,000. Man, my brain can't handle that, but it was sure cool. They used to break rocker studs a lot.

[Rich Biebel]

Over 10,000 was usually reserved for the little destroked motors..........272 cubes was a common one if I recall right......I also think there was a gearset over 7-1

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

Over 10,000 was usually reserved for the little destroked motors..........272 cubes was a common one if I recall right......I also think there was a gearset over 7-1

Rich,

I think you could get a 7:17 for the Dana. You could get 6:20 and 6:50's for the Ford 9". I ran a 5:67 in my Mustang, a SBF w/steel rods and 8,000+ rpm = alot of scattered parts. A crap budget and big dreams contributed to much of that as well. If you weren't breaking motors, you were shelling driveshafts, axles or in my case a third member.

The part about high maintenance was true as well. Even most of the well funded guys had a hard time keeping these things upkept.

That was another time, I can still recall cranking the gears on my Mr. Gasket inline shifter. Those days are gone forever, only to be relived by those of us that experienced them.

Robert Swartz

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

It was a different time and era for lots of reasons.

Indeed.

If you view real dragracing as only high reving stick shift door cars..."to each his own" as the saying goes.

I like Stockers and Super Stockers regardless of transmission--even Comp cars--but I must admit, those high-rpm, stick cars are my favorite to watch since day one except not as much as it used to be thanks to the two-step rev limiters that most guys use nowadays.

What I view as not "real" drag racing is bracket racing with its plethora of electronics, virtually all-automatic transmission field, the "let's overbuild it, short-shift it so we can get 1000 runs out of the engine" mentality; driving games and sandbagging of every sort; and in more than a few cases, less than professional appearing/built cars.

And don't get me started on all the front wheel drive imports and the baggy pants-wearing, "yo-yo-yo, wazzup" crowd associated with them which now infest drag strips.

Believe me, I have no contempt or disrespect for people involved with bracket racing. I can fully understand the reasons from a cost and maintenance perspective. But it's just not my "cup of tea," and like you said: "to each his own."

They were fun to watch and race as I said but those days went the way of the rotary telephone.......

Unfortunately, you are 100% correct.

Regards,

M68

[KingReptile]

Originally Posted by mopar68

I can understand it from your perspective but to me that is not real drag racing. And just look at 'all' the spectators in the stands.

Need I say more?

M68

Just look at the crowds exactly!!! Stick Cars rule !

[John Leichtamer Jr]

Ernie"THE ANIMAL" Price still lives the dream.

Hammer

PS If you ever get the chance to watch him, don't miss it.