Once again a bogus combination

[Ken Miele]

Never in eliminations, once in Class. Right now anyone that runs AA or A have the best chance at running these new combo's. Even then the chances are slim. Dave Ficacci lost heads to a DP in the fourth rd at Charlotte, but I do not know of anyone else losing in the eliminator to a new combo.

Dgal,

Give me some time, I can spin numbers with the best of them. Tomorrow I will show some numbers and lets see how you can turn them around. Some racers and none racers are hell bent in seeing NHRA fail, I'm not.

[Dgal]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

Dgal,

Give me some time, I can spin numbers with the best of them. Tomorrow I will show some numbers and lets see how you can turn them around. Some racers and none racers are hell bent in seeing NHRA fail, I'm not.

There was no spin in my post. Just facts.

By the way, when a company files bankruptcy it doesn't mean that the pension evaporates. Pensions are covered by the PBGC (Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation) since 1974. The current maximum benefit guarantee is $4,500 per month for a 65 year old straight life annuity ($4,050 for a joint life and 50% survivor annuity) if certain conditions are met.

If it is a 401k, then the assets are separate and held in trust. Only the participants that hold company stock in their 401k are sunk to the amount in the company stock which has limitations.

[Ken Miele]

I did not know I was dealing with a lawyer. Lighten up Dgal, I was just trying to inject a little humor into a thread that's has none.

Thanks for your advice, but I was trying to make a point. And for the record, the companies I am talking about went bankrupt and out of business in the 40's and 50's not 1974.

Gees, your way to serious. Do you always just deal in facts, or is fun not an option.

[Dgal]

I think I had one of the few smiley faces in this entire thread a few posts up. Here is a bigger one.

[hemidup]

I'm glad that most are afraid of the new little Gen III Hemi's. Ford had to add a power booster to compete with the new Hemi.

[SS Engine Guy]

.....and both had to come up with bogus horsepower factors to compete with the stuff already out there.

[hemidup]

Originally Posted by SS Engine Guy

.....and both had to come up with bogus horsepower factors to compete with the stuff already out there.

Bogus HP factors or not, I still haven't seen where the new Challenger's or Mustang's have dominated anywhere. Have you?

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by hemidup

Bogus HP factors or not, I still haven't seen where the new Challenger's or Mustang's have dominated anywhere. Have you?

Maybe its because the money guys who are buying these new cars cant drive a nail with a hammer much less drive a race car? Unless its a heads up run they are dead meat. LOL

[SS Engine Guy]

Originally Posted by hemidup

Bogus HP factors or not, I still haven't seen where the new Challenger's or Mustang's have dominated anywhere. Have you?

Sure have seen it. Whatever class they have been entered into. Because of the hp rating and that alone. Put 50 on them or take 50 off their competition and see where they fall.
As the last few pages attest to, these aren't the only combos that have ever been soft.

And please don't take this as an attack on anyone who is running one of these combos. I think it is a smart move. I just don't think that making a killer combo with a pencil says much for the way our rules are being enforced.

By the way...... anybody know what taking those 3 tenths away accomplished?

[John Quinn]

Originally Posted by hemidup

I'm glad that most are afraid of the new little Gen III Hemi's. Ford had to add a power booster to compete with the new Hemi.

If you took a look outside of NHRA and IHRA racing you would see that most of the cars being racd by the younger crowd have power boosters. The younger crowd can't understand why you wouldn't want one. Ford is marketing to those guys.