Re: Heads up today vs yesterday
 

Just need to accept we have become a bunch of friggin bracket racers. With cars much more expensive than a bracket car needs to be.

Re: Heads up today vs yesterday
 

You nailed it !

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Completely agree Ed --- 99.9 % of the time. The other .1 % is when the car in the other lane is in my class.

Re: Heads up today vs yesterday
 

nostalgia bracket racers
Mike

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And do away with AHFS what ever happened to a racing that the fastest car wins. If you have a slower car work on it to be competitive. AHFS is like socialism.

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The crazy thing is that when I first started racing in the mid '70's, the good race car stuff was only about 10-15 years old, cars were all over the place, I even got a few cars for free if I would come get them out of the way. We raced, street drove, used them for daily transportation, and thought nothing of it. In 1992, I started looking for another '68 Chevelle to run as a stocker, decided to build my own car instead of driving other people's cars, and even then shelled out $500.00 for a roller with a straight body. Several cars later, the supply of parts started drying up fast, the local pick a part junkyard didn't have anything but '73-85 smog dogs and little FWD cars,(that's where they all belonged as far as I was concerned),and the prices for '69 Camaros,Chevelles, Mustangs, Road Runners, etc. went through the roof. Once at Pomona, some spectator in the pits told me that "that car's too nice to race. You should restore it". Two observations- the second of which bothers me---
#1--All these cars came out when I was in high school, I remember when they were new.
#2--All these cars now are around 50 years old. That's what bothers me the most.
Yes, racing is different, but it's still fun.

Re: Heads up today vs yesterday
 

The AHFS has "morphed" into what it now is because the NHRA is no longer capable or even concerned about policing S/SS rules and combos.

Billy Nees, NHRA Nostalgia Bracket Racer (formerly S/SS 1188)

Re: Heads up today vs yesterday
 

I agree.
No hp should be added until that racer goes through a teardown by a capable , smart tech person, with free reign from NHRA.
I dare say, a lot wouldn't get h.p. . They'd get a year off instead.

Re: Heads up today vs yesterday
 

Unfortunately this statement is reality.

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Happened to a friend. Somebody out of Division went too quick. Nobody even looked at the car to see if it was legal after-1.20 pass. The combo got horsepower, just the same.
MJ