Can you nice people PLEASE take this particular discussion ( and
all protracted discussions) OFF the E-mail list and onto the website?
I am not the only member fully frustrated with the rule-bending, and
the slippage of etiquette and administration.
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Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 2:23
PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Shiftless.....and
clueless
It was difficult to get an accurate ET using a flagman and watching
for the guys at the finish line to jump
up and down if their favorite car and driver finished first.
I have a G-tech meter and offered to use it on the street and car of your
choice.
This endless what-if session kind of died out several months ago.
Any times Tim would say were accurate would come from a prepared drag
car.
The average street car, back then, was a SLUG.
I was just a kid, but I WAS THERE.
Before that, I hear even the Model A "seemed" fast, way back when they
were new
.
Tom S
Neil, Why do we have to keep going over the same ground, as has been
mentioned it seems that the factory D500-1 was being created out of step with
the established Stock Drag race rules and Dodge was probably in no position or
want to Mass produce such a model. Like most special models there is a
point were the public will like the car but turn to other more practical
models, only a relative small amount of folks opt for these race bred types.
When my car was featured in the Mopar Muscle article I had the pleasure of
dealing with Geoff Stunkard a Drag Race historian with a vast amount of
information on drag racing and as with many records concerning cars of this
era his data is incomplete and sources were not well organized. He basically
had to settle on pointing out what was already known to us folks who
follow these cars. I do think it is revealing that such an accomplished
historian included the claims of low 14 sec runs and didn't cast any
suspicion in the reference. We cannot fill in the blanks on the 50 year old
results but we can see the outline of the overall picture. Again in the
only strict references to 1/4 mile races defined as Stock Class
Vehicles with Multiple Carbs the Dodge was undefeated and broke the 100
mph mark. Neil I am looking at 56 NHRA records and a 54 Dodge D gas coupe
which ran a small cu in dodge Hemi (bored 270 to 289) that ran 101
mph in 56, of course no ET was given but it had to be good and as
for the A gas coupe the 56 record holder he was just shy of 110 mph with no ET
listed but me thinks maybe low 14s at least, can it be true that it took
a decade to break those records. <snip>
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