Time to Revisit the Super Times?

Chris Williams · 12-11-2011, 02:23 PM

On another forum, someone posted this from 48 years ago:

First of all, the answer to the question is, clearly, yes.

But note the breathless quote in the bottom left: "180+ in a quarter mile!". That was a record, with a couple of people in the world who could do it.

Today, there are people in SC who do 180+ with their car on a throttle stop for 1/3rd the track. It's not hard to build a car that'll do 180+, any Tom-Dick-Harry can build one with off-the-shelf parts, or with a call to any of a dozen engine builders. There are probably 10,000 cars in the country that can do it.

Yes, it was really cool back then. But we have guys here, and on every drag racing forum, insisting we go back. Get rid of electronics. Stick with pushrod V8 carburetor cars. Screw the "rice burners". The indexes we had 20 years ago are fine. They stopped making cool cars just seven years after this cover.

The only thing constant is change. Get used to it.

12-11-2011, 02:23 PM	#11
Chris Williams Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Woodinville, WA Posts: 401 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Time to Revisit the Super Times? On another forum, someone posted this from 48 years ago: First of all, the answer to the question is, clearly, yes. But note the breathless quote in the bottom left: "180+ in a quarter mile!". That was a record, with a couple of people in the world who could do it. Today, there are people in SC who do 180+ with their car on a throttle stop for 1/3rd the track. It's not hard to build a car that'll do 180+, any Tom-Dick-Harry can build one with off-the-shelf parts, or with a call to any of a dozen engine builders. There are probably 10,000 cars in the country that can do it. Yes, it was really cool back then. But we have guys here, and on every drag racing forum, insisting we go back. Get rid of electronics. Stick with pushrod V8 carburetor cars. Screw the "rice burners". The indexes we had 20 years ago are fine. They stopped making cool cars just seven years after this cover. The only thing constant is change. Get used to it. __________________ Chris Williams 6304 SC, TD, ET