More Modified Video - 1978
 

Bowling Green, KY. 1978. The late, great, Larry Kopp up first.

Wayne.

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Old Modified stuff is really cool to see now. Rev limiters be damned !! I like seeing that 132 ft speed trap too ! Thats another thing gone ! 5 amber trees, etc etc. People used to say they had a saying to "count" the tree then.

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Nothing will ever replace those high winding modified cars of the past, those guys where drivers, the crew all wrapped up in one.
I'll always remember my days watching modified and helping my father run it and running around with Virgil Cates when he ran A/G also.
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I ran in that race with my 68 camaro.so did jim pursglove in his vette.seems like only yesterday! Ha!

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Music to my ears,.....if I could only turn my computer up louder !!

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Man, that was great!! Thank you!!

I was there with my C/SM '69 Camaro. Lost a clutch, didn't even make 1st round. That car broke stuff until it broke me. <G>

Does anybody know if Pete Smith is still with us? He was another one of my favorite racers. Very nice guy.

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Ed,

Heard he is living somewhere around the Conroe area. The Emmons Brothers know for sure.

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Good to hear Todd. Thanks. Good driver, good guy. Pete sure didn't mind zinging that thing up on the starting line. I loved watching him and several others.

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ESPN should take a look at those videos. More exciting than watching pro stock today...dave doing the commentary..the way it was filmed made them look like they were going faster than they were and it was really fun to watch....I don't get it with them not airing sportsman shows today but i guess when you watch them now they make them look boring.....man did they put on a show back then...too bad I was too young and missed all the fun.

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Pete was hard on the motors but that's what it took to run the numbers. If I remember correctly, he left the line a little over 11 grand, might have even been close to twelve. Hell, I was in the car while he was checking the timing and it zinged to almost 10,000 on that big Moroso tach. I had Fresh underwear after that.