Spy shots - Don Garlits Challenger

[Tony DePillo]

Change class/dial up, dial down/two step your brake pedal/ acid port your heads/ceramic lifters/billet rods/ cal trac's/ pro trans/ wheelie bars/ yep, I'm sure that these ferd's and moper's will ruin the class!

[Bruce Noland]

Tony,
Are you running pure Stock this year?

[Tony DePillo]

Whats that? Can I run it with my 64?? Is that a new nmca class?
I'll be content to watch and take my old dog out a few times. I will also watch with interest as Terry and Alex move forward with their program. I am encouraged by the renewed interest in drag racing by the American Auto Co's as they sit on their death beds.
On a serious note, I don't see how these cars are any more of a stretch than the crop of GT cars we've seen in the last few years.
I should probably keep my big mouth shut, as I don't have a dog in this fight. Just get out there and do the best you can with what you have and have fun.

[Tony DePillo]

Bruce, really I'm watching the Top fuel fields and thinking I might enter the ol pig in top fuel when they get a short field. Think about it, free entry, I can have my family reunion on the starting line every time I make a pass, TV coverage, blow my junk up three times, get my butt kicked in the first round and pick up a check on the way out!!!

[Jacob Decker]

That looks really cool.....

I want one of those!!!!!


Jacob

[Ken Haase]

Tony D. I'm not sure if the 'Big 3' are on their death beds or not, but at least two of them have a lot of tubes running into all their ports and orifices in the 'ICU'*.

If cars like your's made up the TF field, I'd start watching the broadcasts again!


*inexhaustible cash umbilical

[magnumv8]

You guys are getting close....lol....The CJ already has a roots style blower on it and is injected, put nitro in the tank and put Force behind the wheel......half of the issues resolved.....(but you would never shut him up)

[treessavoy]

Originally Posted by Smitty

Ok, one car has yet to face an older one in the same class in competion yet and the other hasn't even seen the track and you guys are bitching. Damn, the fastest car doesn't always win. If stock eliminator consisted of all AA/SA(S) and A/SA(S) cars I might see the problem here but they don't so the guys will have to put a number on the window and run the dial in and hit the tree period!
Are you gonna bitch everytime someone brings a new combo to the table? Look over in SS, Bobby Dennis is the master of finding the odd ball GM engines and making them dominate. He is vey fast but against his index he's killer and a threat to qualify number one anywhere, yet he isn;t winning all the races. He did a real good job last year and thats because he works hard at it.
I really need to know what's the big deal? Chrysler built the Hemi back in the 60's as a purpose built SS car and you couldn't drive it on the street. There were to versions, the street and race just like Ford.
Quit your whining and race, it's not the end of the world.

Excuse me but the 1964 and 1965 Hemi cars were built with complete street equipment and could and were street driven, the 1964 427 fairlanes were the same. The 1968 Hemi cars were NOT streetable and thus went into SS, not Stock.

[bill dedman]

Treesavoy said, "1964 and 1965 Hemi cars were built with complete street equipment and could and were street driven, the 1964 427 fairlanes were the same. "

That may well be true, but pehaps for power-to-weight factors, I don't think any of those cars mentioned ever were classified as Stock Eliminator cars.

They were always Super Stockers.

If I'm wrong about that please cite some examples.

Now, somebody has convinced NHRA to allow Thunderbolts into Stock Eliminator, an anomaly, in my opinion. If they're going to allow them, then what's next; swiss-cheese Catalinas and 421 SD '63 Tempests, along with the '64-up, lightweight Dodges and Plymouths with the cross-ram 426 competition hemis?

I'll admit, that would give the new CJ's something gnarly to chew on.... LOL!

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

Treesavoy said, "1964 and 1965 Hemi cars were built with complete street equipment and could and were street driven, the 1964 427 fairlanes were the same. "

That may well be true, but pehaps for power-to-weight factors, I don't think any of those cars mentioned ever were classified as Stock Eliminator cars.

They were always Super Stockers.

If I'm wrong about that please cite some examples.

Now, somebody has convinced NHRA to allow Thunderbolts into Stock Eliminator, an anomaly, in my opinion. If they're going to allow them, then what's next; swiss-cheese Catalinas and 421 SD '63 Tempests, along with the '64-up, lightweight Dodges and Plymouths with the cross-ram 426 competition hemis?

I'll admit, that would give the new CJ's something gnarly to chew on.... LOL!

IHRA allows them at thier AA/S and AA/SA 7.00 lbs per HP weight break except for the swiss cheese Cats and the 421 Tempests (NOT ENOUGH PRODUCED). Dan Davorak was putting a 64 X ram Hemi together before he had his medical problems a while back.