what happened to Jeff Lee

Dwight Southerland · 05-15-2014, 07:37 AM

Ed -
You are missing the whole point. The issue is not the historical facts about what or what did not happen 40 years ago; the issue is that if Chrysler, acting as the manufacturer since they own everything American Motors, submitted a legitimate technical update for those engines today, it should be honored and accepted (Thanks for the info, Adger!). Chrysler did the same thing with the single 4-bbl NASCAR Hemis 35 years after the fact and all those parts are now in the books. Shelby did the same thing for his cars. It's the inconsistency of NHRA Tech that is the rub, not the historical facts. From what I know, every one of Jeff Lee's requests were turned down, so he is not the villain here. NHRA claimed to have found a document from AMC they received in the 1970 era that submitted the high performance camshaft as a service replacement and that is how that got in the books. And now Chrysler has submitted a request for the intake and carb. Yet the parts listed on both submittals have been removed because of a smear campaign against Jeff Lee when he was not the originator of either request, and an appeal to some history that is irrelevant to the issues. So what's your deal?

05-15-2014, 07:37 AM	#11
Dwight Southerland VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Arkansas - In the middle of everything. Posts: 2,001 Likes: 64 Liked 778 Times in 193 Posts	Re: what happened to Jeff Lee Ed - You are missing the whole point. The issue is not the historical facts about what or what did not happen 40 years ago; the issue is that if Chrysler, acting as the manufacturer since they own everything American Motors, submitted a legitimate technical update for those engines today, it should be honored and accepted (Thanks for the info, Adger!). Chrysler did the same thing with the single 4-bbl NASCAR Hemis 35 years after the fact and all those parts are now in the books. Shelby did the same thing for his cars. It's the inconsistency of NHRA Tech that is the rub, not the historical facts. From what I know, every one of Jeff Lee's requests were turned down, so he is not the villain here. NHRA claimed to have found a document from AMC they received in the 1970 era that submitted the high performance camshaft as a service replacement and that is how that got in the books. And now Chrysler has submitted a request for the intake and carb. Yet the parts listed on both submittals have been removed because of a smear campaign against Jeff Lee when he was not the originator of either request, and an appeal to some history that is irrelevant to the issues. So what's your deal?