Who had the most successful Modified Production car?

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Bobby Bennett

Gene Fulton E/Modified Production, white wagon 3-world championships

NHRA? What years?

[Bobby Bennett]

74-75 -77

ihra

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Bobby Bennett

74-75 -77

ihra

That's what I thought. :-)
Water was not as deep "over there." I ran with both back then.
I think he ran a Camaro (orange?) in IHRA Super Modified later? Believe I ran him at Oklahoma City once. Royce Freeman won and I runner-upped with our NHRA (more restrictive rules) cars. My C/SM was over-weight. 1/2 lb lighter weight break, and I had none I could pull. Ricky Smith came with the Maverick next time and killed us along with everybody else. lol

[NWDragracing]

I always felt the demise of Modified Production was caused when the Samurai Warrior Mazda started to win over the piston powered racer cars. I recall someone sharing that NHRA was getting a lot of flack from performance parts manufacturers because there were no valve train components, no pistons, crank, rods, etc...on a rotary engine...then add the noise factor... 10X

[Scotty D]

wasn't coleman roddy the champ in 81 the year of the demise.also didn't the wayne county boys have some fast mp cars as well.

[NWDragracing]

Originally Posted by Scotty D

wasn't coleman roddy the champ in 81 the year of the demise.also didn't the wayne county boys have some fast mp cars as well.

Wayne County had the Opel running in B/G class.

http://www.competitionplus.com/index...4304&Itemid=24

The last Modified race was the 1981 NHRA Finals at Orange County with Larry Kopp against Paul Mercure.

[Bob Rice]

Originally Posted by Scotty D

wasn't coleman roddy the champ in 81 the year of the demise.also didn't the wayne county boys have some fast mp cars as well.

Mike Edwards was the 81 World Champ.
Bob Rice

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by NWDragracing

I always felt the demise of Modified Production was caused when the Samurai Warrior Mazda started to win over the piston powered racer cars. I recall someone sharing that NHRA was getting a lot of flack from performance parts manufacturers because there were no valve train components, no pistons, crank, rods, etc...on a rotary engine...then add the noise factor... 10X

How many times was it world champ? It was very ugly (both looks & sound) & did win some raced, but anybody that thinks that caused NHRA to pull the plug is on something & it probably ain't legal. lol

[Dwight Southerland]

Maybe we need a little clarification here. Be sure to note if you are talking about a Modified Production car or a car that ran Modified Eliminator. Modified Eliminator included Gas classes, Modified Compact, Street Roadsters and Super Modified in its lifetime. True MP cars should also recognize Bob Riffle in the early days along with Don Grotheer, Butch Leal and Dick Landy out of the Chrysler camp. Mike Fons and Dennis Ferrara made people stand up and take notice of the big block cars. Blevins was very successful in the early days. I would think that Kopp, Mercure or Cotton Perry would be the standouts for having won the most NHRA national races. Buddy Ingersoll also won a few national events along with Jim Ehlen and Crawford Benham. Modified Eliminator standouts should also include Bruce Sizemore, the late Billy Mansell of the Minga & Mansell team, Don Coonce, Don Bowles and Tony Christian.

[Rich Biebel]

The SummerNationals I mentioned earlier '78 or '79 I can't remember was an awesome event for Modified.

Garley , Terry Hoard in the Mazda and Billy Mansell were the 3 fastest cars.

The Mazda was hideous in looks and sound but it ran way under and would probably win every race if it didn't break...


Mansell won that race I think......