Last Year of Modified? Question

[Rich Biebel]

My good friend Jay Kalmus is the person responsible for me and my partner getting involved in drag racing in the mid 60's. He ran various MP cars. At that time he ran what was called Street eliminator. That consisted of MP cars and some other classes of the day. Like the classes for Corvettes and Cobras....AA/Sports down thru about E/Sports. Gassers also ran Street eliminator. Blown gassers ran Super eliminator and then there was Competition eliminator for gas dragsters, altereds and some other cars. They all push started from the top end of my local track but Street eliminator cars had to self start. At some point Modified was created. My friend Jay ran D/MP with a '57 chevy wagon. It ws a 301. Intakes were still real old school stuff back then. Inline 2 fours then a cross ram deal was tried. I traveled with him a lot in 1968 and we tried to set the record a few times. It was about 12.60 at the time. I think we did set the record at one race at 12.57.......He passed away after a long battle with cancer......We had a lot of fun back then for sure..........

[Bob Don]

Will - Thanks for the link to the Connecticut race. That looked like it was the 1981 WWCS race in which case I was there running Stock. I was looking for Frank Fitts at the starting line. Mark Yac - did you recognize anyone? (You might have been working line!). To get back on topic, the shop that sponsored me also sponsored the "Precocious" B/SM fielded by Nick Mazzeo and Steve Negrini. I still run into Nick from time to time and Steve still races (I think in SS/DM). These guys held the record in B/SM for some time. That was quite and accomplichment back then as there were so many SM's around.