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[Richard Grant]

Those were the good old days. I paid Jim Weible about $1000 for my O/SA motor and ran 1 second under the national record the first day out.
I ran a heads up best three out of five feature race at Harmon Raceway against a D/S. I ran F/S. After he won the first round because I was late against the flagman, I won the next three runs. The F/S protested me and Red Anderson just happened to be there that day. Red passed me as legal so I got $100 for winning the race and $50 from the F/stocker for tearing down legal.
Later when they changed the rules so we couldn't run Forgetru pistons I moved to SS/X. The first nite out I lost to Jack Mullin's wagon but they ran a constelation race. I won but was 5 pounds lite because I had not weighted the new car.
Those were fun times.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Dave Gantz

Fading memory, I suppose, as to what car it was. I do remember him imitating Tex's accent. Um, there might have been a couple beers fogging things a little. Mike told me several stories about you guys. He got a big kick out of you both.
I may have heard about that lead shot "leak". I suppose though, there was more than one car that could've leaked.
The rule change that allowed weight to be bolted on took some of the fun out of it. One reason Mike and I ran the 71 RR (in the mid 90's) was because of all of the great hiding places it had.

Mike was a great guy. We had a lot of fun with him. You are right on the 71 cars. On our 71 Charger B/SA we had 2 hemi cylinder heads wired into the springs of the back seat.
Landy was playing with the 16 plug hemi at the time. I told him we already had 16 plugs. He laughed so hard he almost spit up his tyrolia wine.

[Michael Colaluca]

Not that it was an "olden day," but I had the privledge of Red Anderson telling me I was 5 lbs light on my very first pass at a divisional. (Had to of been my 5th or 6th pass ever going down the drag strip.) I can say after that I threw all the weight we had in the trailer in the weight box, just to have my father come up to me saying I cant do that since they weigh weight boxes... I guess they don't weigh those anymore either lol

[treessavoy]

1963 at Atco a W/S 1950 Studebaker got bounced for a non-stock muffler.

A friend of mine got bounced for using his 1 ton truck spare as a spare for his 1965 Chevelle Stocker.

I got stopped going through the scales and was told to remove the 300 pound spare tire fro my trunk, it was stuffed with tires weights.

Put weights inside the rear seat bottom in my 1964 Plymouth which then rammed my seat back when I was forced to slam on the brakes at the big end.

JimR

[Ed Wright]

I never had the nerve to pull any of these stunts. Wow!

[Dave Gantz]

Originally Posted by art leong

Mike was a great guy. We had a lot of fun with him. You are right on the 71 cars. On our 71 Charger B/SA we had 2 hemi cylinder heads wired into the springs of the back seat.
Landy was playing with the 16 plug hemi at the time. I told him we already had 16 plugs. He laughed so hard he almost spit up his tyrolia wine.

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.

[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.