Lower Class Stockers

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Rory McNeil

Gary, Rob Roth was the name of the driver of Paul Rossi`s FWD Dodges. He was from the Northwest area.

Thanks Rory,

I have a book at home about fwd performance that would've told me about Rob Roth too, but I never thought this topic would even come up on this site, so "out of sight, out of mind" was my mindset...so much for thinking huh lol! Good luck next season with your car too up there in Div. 6 country...

I was rooting for Rob & Paul then, plus anyone else driving a slower stocker (from then on), because back then I was driving a '76 Vega Htchbk to the semi's of the '79 Div. V e.t. finals at our once "Thunder Valley International Raceway", in Marion, Sd. George Williams's success with his Vega was my inspiration for that car--I also won "King of The Hill" at the 1977 Memorial Day Drags @ Bandimere Speedway (for Denver's South High School), with that car plus five other bracket race wins and one r.u. at the now defunct "Mile High Raceway" (also known as Thunder Road & Dragway Denver), also in '79---that to date was my best year ever in drag racing with my '81 Division V Street Elim. win (also @ Thunder Valley) plus a Bandimere Street elim. win and semi (by -0.12 semi rt), making that year a close second---I was driving a '73 Pontiac Ventura that was an 18sec car. As the late great Carrol O'Connor (of Archie Bunker show fame) would say..."THOSE WERE THE DAYS"!!!