IHRA Modified Eliminator Video Clip - Mid 80's

[Tod Lane]

Originally Posted by Robert Swartz

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

Hey Bob, you know how many years the old white trailer was stained with gear oil from the last nine inch you took out? Trick question, the answer is you can STILL see traces of it, noticed it on the last rewiring job... It bled back through the last paint job ever how many years ago that was... lol

How hard did Ken and Toby twist that poor little 2000 cc Pinto motor in the D/MC car?

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by Tod Lane

Hey Bob, you know how many years the old white trailer was stained with gear oil from the last nine inch you took out? Trick question, the answer is you can STILL see traces of it, noticed it on the last rewiring job... It bled back through the last paint job ever how many years ago that was... lol

How hard did Ken and Toby twist that poor little 2000 cc Pinto motor in the D/MC car?

Regarding the old trailer, we need to get a portable blaster and clean that thing, LOL! Like we discussed last weekend. I think I last painted that trailer in 1985-6, something like that. I've had that old thing since what, 1976. Got the wife scared to death, told her, when I start receiving my pension money from Arvin's in November, we may take a trip down to Georgia and buy one of those 26 foot econo enclosed trailers.

That old D/MC car, it went to at least 11K. I know they did alot work with cams and followers, being an OHC engine. As you recall, I was pretty much on my own by then, didn't spend alot of time with that car. On that note, stopped by to talk with Toby a week or so ago, he wasn't at work that day. Haven't talked to him for 3-4 years. My wife has spoken with him, said he wants to give me a hard time for resurrecting the old Nova. Last I knew, he still had both the D/MC car AND the stocker. I believe, his mother sold off the old homestead and he's gotten divorced since then, who knows what may have become of those cars?

Bob