An Idea for the Future

[Bobby Bennett]

What do you guys think of making the SS/E - F - G Modified classes for pre-1970 cars only. Maybe create an H Modified for the 6-cylinder cars. Maybe make the SS/GM cars for the old big wagons like the Good Ole Charlie Brown.

Can't help it, I miss my old Modified eliminator.

[Ed Fernandez]

That makes too much sense for Ca. to do.

[Ed Wright]

I never did understand why they got rid of Modified instead of Comp. Not many raced Comp, and nobody watched Comp.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Bobby Bennett

What do you guys think of making the SS/E - F - G Modified classes for pre-1970 cars only. Maybe create an H Modified for the 6-cylinder cars. Maybe make the SS/GM cars for the old big wagons like the Good Ole Charlie Brown.

Can't help it, I miss my old Modified eliminator.

I would try to do it if I still worked for IHRA. Maybe something like that would be good for a NEW Sportsman Association run by input from racers and not a bunch of fuel queers and circus freaks. I miss modified to but is it to late to bring back the old days?

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

I would try to do it if I still worked for IHRA. Maybe something like that would be good for a NEW Sportsman Association run by input from racers and not a bunch of fuel queers and circus freaks. I miss modified to but is it to late to bring back the old days?

I see a new _HRA organization in the furure. ?
Maybe the S.H.R.A. (Sportsman Hot Rod Assn.)

Only one rule:
A person cannot be on the board of directors if they have never been a racer at the sportsman level.

You can be the tech man ?

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

I never did understand why they got rid of Modified instead of Comp. Not many raced Comp, and nobody watched Comp.

Money and politics !

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Bobby Bennett

What do you guys think of making the SS/E - F - G Modified classes for pre-1970 cars only. Maybe create an H Modified for the 6-cylinder cars. Maybe make the SS/GM cars for the old big wagons like the Good Ole Charlie Brown.

Can't help it, I miss my old Modified eliminator.

Bobby, did you see the pics I posted? Boyles just got the car repainted and it looks SWEEEEET! http://classracer.com/classforum/showthread.php?t=28555

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by ALMACK

I see a new _HRA organization in the furure. ?
Maybe the S.H.R.A. (Sportsman Hot Rod Assn.)

Only one rule:
A person cannot be on the board of directors if they have never been a racer at the sportsman level.

You can be the tech man ?

Any new sanctioning body is doomed right from the beginning due to the fact that NHRA
and IHRA (obviously mostly NHRA) has a stranglehold on all the major and many minor race tracks.That is all the leverage they they need to stifle any competition.
The only hope is someone with a lot of $$$$$ coming in and sueing the HRA's in court to stop the practice.

[Steve Williams]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

I never did understand why they got rid of Modified instead of Comp. Not many raced Comp, and nobody watched Comp.

You are way off base on this Ed. Back at the time that Modified got axed, it was very common for close to 60 cars or more show up for 32 car show. It was also common for 100 plus to show for 64 car show. Comp was and still is the class that bridges the gap technology and innovation wise from Super Stock to Pro Stock. I have worked on Modified cars back in the day as well as Comp cars then and now. It was a shame that Modified took it in the shorts like they did because it obsoleted most cars from that category overnight. The problem with Comp nowadays is that it is awful hard to explain index, CIC and permenant index hits to the average Joe. Collectively as Sportsman racers, we can not afford to lose any classes from Comp on down. I may not care for some sportsman classes in terms of how they race, but I hope that I never go to a race again and find out that someone just got axed like I did back in Indy many years ago. I did shed a tear when that happened to Modified knowing that this was the last time that I would see many familar faces that showed up every week without fail and supported the very organization that stuck it in their rearend. My rant is now over..........

[Ed Wright]

Were you actually racing in the late 1970s, 1980s? Where were these 32 & 64 car shows? The WCS races were all run, national events were all class winners. Comp Eliminator today is not the Comp of those days. Mostly Econo dragsters back then.
Thinking maybe the car count fell off drastically after I quit at the end of the 1979 season when Modified greatly out numbered Comp. So after reading your " rant" I emailed Bill Long, Mike Edward's partner when he was running B/SM with his Maverick. Bill says Modified greatly out numbered Comp right up to the end. I'll take his word since I know for certain they were there. Modified Eliminator World Champs, right?