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[art leong]

Originally Posted by Dave Gantz

That's EXACTLY the kind of story Mike liked telling me about you guys! lol! I had a good time with Mike, but I missed out a on a lot of the earlier stuff.

Another one from the Mike day's was "where's yours" .Reffering to an electric fuel pump.
They allowed them one year and nobody went any faster.
Ours was a Carter (quiet). And It was hidden between the quarter panel and the rear window interior panel. Used 2 Y fittings and a plugged piece of tubing.
The Carter would allow you to run the engine at an idle without being on. We had a switch to turn it on and off seperate from the key.

[FED 387]

we used the wiper switch on ours

[Frank Bialas]

It wasn't in the olden days nor did I get bounced but about 6 or 7 years ago I pulled into the staging lanes in Indy for tech, and the line was rather long so I took a walk around. After awhile the line started to move down so I returned to my car and waited. Shortly after a NHRA inspector approached me and introduced himself, Travis Miller and he went about his routine. He said that he didn't know of me or recognize the car, I said that we had just built the combination a few years prior and that I was from division 1. He gave it a good inspection and asked a lot of questions, which I politely answered. Then He asked me WHAT IS THIS? I said what? THE CAR!!! I said a Plymouth, PLYMOUTH WHAT? I said GTX, WHAT"S THAT? I said that I didn't know what GTX stood for and at the time didn't realize that if you claimed a Roadrunner it was a natural A car and I was running C. Now you had to be there to appreciate his expression when he asked me, YOU CAN"T EXPECT ME TO SIGN OFF, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT GTX STANDS FOR? I said your kidding, NO I'M NOT!!! This is embarrassing I thought and shouted out GOOD TILL XMAS!!! Travis Miller has his head down looking down at his clip board writing something had trouble holding back a smile and said THAT WILL WORK and good luck. Later on I found out that my friend Evan Smith asked Travis Miller to grill me good. It was just one of those funny moments you won't forget.

[Jim Kaekel]

Cool thread.
I heard one second hand from the "ole days" that was pretty funny. A Stock class racer made a pass and proceeded to get out of his car, with helmet in hand, prior to scaling. He then walked away from his car, picked up a large piece of lead that he had hidden in the weeds and placed it inside his helmet. He then hopped back in his car and strolled across the scales. Of course he must have been caught or I wouldn't have heard this story.

Another good one was a fellow that was caught with loose lead ballast in his trunk. From what I was told, the official grabbed it and tossed it on the ground. The official then went about his business, while the racer then grabbed the ballast and tossed it back in his trunk.

[Dan Lattimore]

Originally Posted by Jim Kaekel

Cool thread.
I heard one second hand from the "ole days" that was pretty funny. A Stock class racer made a pass and proceeded to get out of his car, with helmet in hand, prior to scaling. He then walked away from his car, picked up a large piece of lead that he had hidden in the weeds and placed it inside his helmet. He then hopped back in his car and strolled across the scales. Of course he must have been caught or I wouldn't have heard this story.

Another good one was a fellow that was caught with loose lead ballast in his trunk. From what I was told, the official grabbed it and tossed it on the ground. The official then went about his business, while the racer then grabbed the ballast and tossed it back in his trunk.

That story reminds me of something that happened to me a long time ago and I'm sure the statute of limitations has run out so I'm going to tell on myself. I had set the record in my class and was just getting ready to hit the scales after my backup. It dawned on me that I hadn't added any fuel after the previous pass and told my wife that I thought I might be a couple pounds lite. Just as I was pulling onto the scales she handed me a big gulp cup full of ice tea and set it on the window frame. I reached for it and she backed up. I couldn't hardly pick it up, she had put a big lump of lead in it and poured tea on top of it. I don't know what shocked me most , the fact that she did it or the impact it delivered when I put it in my lap. The good news is I was heavy enough without it but God bless her I asked her to never do that again. :-)

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by art leong

Another one from the Mike day's was "where's yours" .Reffering to an electric fuel pump.
They allowed them one year and nobody went any faster.
Ours was a Carter (quiet). And It was hidden between the quarter panel and the rear window interior panel. Used 2 Y fittings and a plugged piece of tubing.
The Carter would allow you to run the engine at an idle without being on. We had a switch to turn it on and off seperate from the key.

I thought I posted this yesterday, but don't see it now ???

Anyway I had my Carter electric pump hidden pretty good. I built an open box which I welded into the top of my fuel tank on the 66 convertible.
I ran the pickup tube into the pump in the box, then ran the outlet back into the tank ,and out through the normal sender location. I used the gauge wire to power the pump . I had tapped into it with a toggle switch up under the dash where I could shut it off if anyone got too close!
I left the pushrod out of the block pump, and the removed the divider walls from the valve area in the bottom of the pump..It was there strictly for looks!

I think it was '75 or '76 when you weren't allowed much of that stuff in Stock.
Same with spool and axles and solid trailing arm bushings.
Of course I had the frame from the S/S 4 door Bel Air , spool and all , under the convertible body!
I made the solid bushings kinda short so I could hide them with a slice of rubber from the original bushings on both ends.

The next season ,they allowed all that stuff anyway , so I didn't have much to do over the winter ;-)

[Bobby Zlatkin]

Wow, I feel that I really learned some new inovative speed secrets here.

My big cheating was when I had my '69 Nova. We had the rear bumper off and noticed a perfect pocket between the bumper brackets. So we melted lead and filled it completely.
Had to use a floor jack to get the bumper back in place.

My wife and I used to joke about how funny it would be if, when we did our dry hop (everybody did them back then), the bumper would fall off right there on the line and when the track worker went over to pick it up, he couldn't.

[Ed Wright]

Wow! I really feel straight arrow after reading some of this stuff.
If I showed up with this kind of stuff, I would have looked so guilty Red or Wesley would have figured out why. LOL