What everr happened to the good ol' days

[randy wilson]

my first race was in august 1971 at bethany mo. they had hotrod, hotstock, showroom-option, and showroom. fist time i had ever been to one. sitting in the stands a friend of mine with a mustang 289 3 speed told me if i could get the car in stock i could race it. i took it over and weighed it in and they classified it in option because it had a high rise on it. he let me run iy anyway. i took second and have been hooked since. still racing there today. check it out at www.headsup-racing.com.

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by randy wilson

my first race was in august 1971 at bethany mo. they had hotrod, hotstock, showroom-option, and showroom. fist time i had ever been to one. sitting in the stands a friend of mine with a mustang 289 3 speed told me if i could get the car in stock i could race it. i took it over and weighed it in and they classified it in option because it had a high rise on it. he let me run iy anyway. i took second and have been hooked since. still racing there today. check it out at www.headsup-racing.com.

Oh yeah, classification in the old days! I remember my first trip to the track. You could run Trophy or Money? Money was for the REAL racecars. Trophy was the rest of us. All cars were "classed" by NHRA standards of the time, that was 1973, for me.

I had a 1967 Mustang, 289 lo-po 2bbl car. My mistake, had a Holley 500 on it. Got classed as a D/MP car. Man, I got killed. That didn't stop me from going back for more.