When do I get my National Event without AHFS

[Harry 6674]

Originally Posted by art leong

Ed. Those days were nice. But we only used to get 1 or 2 races out of our front tires. No shoe polish then just hit the brakes hard at the big end. Cars went a lot slower then. Our B/SA Challenger run a best of 122 mph ( at Fremont CA) And back then they used an extra 60 to calculate the mph. The shoe polish helps to stop that.

I never had a problem wearing out front tires. I was never fast enough to worry about going faster then the record. It certainly was a whole lot more fun for me anyway. Brakes are for after you cross the stripe.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

If bracket racing had never happened, we might still be running off records.

Ed, don't blame Bracket Racing for the demise of Class Racing. NHRA hasn't had the manpower to do proper teardowns on each Class winner and runner-up for longer that I've been Class racing! And the only way that we could go back to the old "ya gotta win Class to get in the field", "running off the National Record" days would be to have proper tech and teardowns again and that's not gonna happen.
Let's face the facts, NHRA was able to cut their work force AND increase participation by "dumbing" Stock and SS down. Bracket Racers just saw a good thing and moved in.

[Terry Cain]

BUT, How about just one National meet to run the way the did in the old days. Kinda like the ball teams wearing the "ole" uniforms. Never know til ya try.

[Carguy49]

Originally Posted by 442OLDS

For those upset at the AHFS,bracket racing,and slow cars........NHRA could always run off of the National Record like it used to be.

When did they quit running off the National Record?? What was the reason in doing so?? Anybody recall. I know it will never happen, but if the NHRA went back to that format it would put an end to the 1000' qualifiers. I had a stock eliminator car briefly in the early 70's, but it was never fast. Just curious, and my 2 cents.

Just so you know, my car was a 1971 Torino w/ a 302 C4 combo - O/SA.

[Lee Valentine]

I would go back to running off records now,back in the old days I was at a disadvantage because I was short on money raising a family now I can afford the best.