Interest in Modified?

[Ven302]

Hey Joe!

It would be way to cool for IHRA to bring back modified, I am "all in" as I am sure Jamie would be too.
Might keep our buddy Donn from "retiring" huh?. I love having a modified car (even though its in SS) it is all I have ever wanted to do since seeing Don Bowles Fairmont when I was a kid. I drool at the thought of the high winding cars all racing each other off of records or indexes or whatever, but no chalk! The shame of all this is that IHRA probably could not administer the class fairly, look what happened to Top Stock.
Its not the people at the ground level, its the management that promotes the laissez faire attitude towards this type of racing "too much work". It would be really neat to let the 5 oh cars and the early type modifieds and heck even some of the surviving imports with the turbo motors race "Head Up" with a handicapped start and no break out!

It is probably all moot now that most of the front drive GT conversions are subtly disguised Comp cars. lets face it, we probably are racing in modified (with chalk) what with the ported heads and conversion cars. I know I am generalizing but hasn't stock really become super, and Super Stock is teetering on being modified? If I remember you could not do to the heads then what the "ss" guys are doing now.( I bet somebody will correct me)

Any how I do believe in positive posting and if it were ever to bear fruit, I know I can speak for two crazy Canadians that would be in the tech line up, no matter how slow we were!

Joe I never got to see the new car, how did it turn out?

Venice
SS/CS
3041

[randy wilson]

vev 302 i like your approach and gutsy attitude. we also run cs when we venture out.

[Doyle Evans]

I know there's a lot of interest. I also understand Rusty's point. But who knows if even stock and super stock will survive.

But you can put me in. I would love to run modified again in my old vette.
I think there are a lot of other racers too. I still have fans come up and ask about the "good ole days" and wondering if the class will ever come back.

Doyle Evans

[sst1988]

Originally Posted by buzzinhalfdozen

I've seen a lot of mention of "bring back modified" I guess my question would be, Who's interested? The way I see it they(IHRA) would have no clue that racers would like to see a return of Modified or a similar eliminator without getting input from the racers. I for one believe that there is sufficient interest in a class such as this, obviously there were some problems with Modified as it was contested prior to it's demise. What would you change if anything with regard to the class? What do you believe would be the best way of swaying IHRA to consider such a move? Let's face it Class racing in IHRA is pretty much a joke IMO. Joe Buchanan SS/AX SS/BX 3117

who would be interested?------------------ ANTHONY BARTOZZI. THE GREATEST MODIFIED DRIVER EVERY.

[John Leichtamer Jr]

I DON'T THINK SO. Paul Mercure had his but sittin in a modified more than anybody.Plus real modifieds had three pedals, not like these sissy automatic, button leavin,selinoid shifted,so called modified cars

Ernie Price is still livin the dream...


Hammer

Nothing against A.B. he is a great driver

[Michael Kilduff]

I think racers and fans alike would be interested in reviving the category. But this time around make it a doorslammer only class, and forget about weight breaks for using automatics-Door cars with manual transmissions only!

While I am in this thread let me give a shout out to Doyle Evans!

[Scotty D]

the fans will come back for this,and dont forget about ernie's engine builder dr dave watson still out there rowin'em also.as a helper with an organization for nothing but stickshift doorslammers(the umtr united manual transmission racers)you dont know how refreshing it is to hear this kind of chatter,it would be great to see some old corvette's and chevy 2's with little inchers and highwinding small blocks banging gears again.

[buzzinhalfdozen]

Venice, Hi Car turned out pretty good, took longer than I thought to finish, working full time and trying to build a car in less than a year by yourself was a tough road. I did finally get it going however really late in the year only managed to get to the Jegs Sports nats at Columbus and the Osceola points race. I'm fairly pleased with initial results, but still have some issues to iron out. Hopefully I'll be ready to go in the spring. As for the IHRA SS NOT being a joke as posted by someone else just look at the qualifying sheets at most any race, then tell me the same thing. Thanks Joe Buchanan SS/AX SS/BX 3117

[thrash7781]

283 destroked to 277, tunnel ram/w 660's, 5 speed, 650 gear, left the line at 11,800 and shifted at 10,500 in a 69 camaro, (year...1982. class...e/mp....index...10.50...ran 9.60...front tires droping in the middle of third gear...driver...my machine shop owner/bulider... Bill Reichert. Interested ??? I think i enjoyed watching him more then than what i do now. thanks for listening, "Thrash"

[thrash7781]

Originally Posted by Rusty Davenport

You are kicking a dead horse.......it is all a joke.......class racing is nothing but a bunch of old fart die-hards that can't quit the addiction......where are the young guys who care about performance ????? They are either playing with their "mouse" ( computer ) or putting a muffler on their four banger.

Rusty, you cant be serious, class racers/old farts that cant quit, dont care about performance, you must wear a tie during the day so your head can be pulled out of your arse when needed, like now, you have my vote for posting the funniest(dumbest) post on the site.Please say you didn't mean it. "Thrash"