Hey John, ain't this great bench racing though?
How these discussions get so heated and involved.
I can just see the dark-paneled interior of the
clubhouse. Three or four pitchers of beer about.
A pyramid of empty beer cans on one table, more
prezels on the floor than in the bowls,
everything above the six and a half foot mark
obscured by cigar smoke, and all us guys standing
around making all these new proposals, shooting
each other down, and having a great time;
somebody swearing he could have gotten eight more
miles per hour out of his car if he had just
re-jetted, etc, etc, etc. Just peek at the last
forty messages or so and imagine all those
conversations going on in this super, LSR,
bench-racing- clubhouse! I LOVE IT!!!
--- John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
wrote:
> I think some people are still missing the
> point. With a quick count
> there are over 620 classes now on the
> books...which includes all the
> existing Vintage classes. And currently
> Flathead Fords don't have to run 289
> OHV Fords, Arduns don't have to run against
> Hemi's and Buick straight
> eight's don't run against Chevy V-8's now. So
> what are we talking about? We
> don't need to reinvent the wheel here guys. No
> body is being excluded from
> LSR.
>
> John Beckett
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> To: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com
> <dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com>;
> land-speed@autox.team.net
> <land-speed@autox.team.net>; bbutters@dmi.net
> <bbutters@dmi.net>
> Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:48 AM
> Subject: RE: Electronics vs. old way Nastalgia
> class
>
>
> >Doug, I think you're missing a subtle point
> here.
> > Those were the days when the greatest
> >breakthrough in automotive history was one HP
> per
> >cubic inch. What are production cars doing
> now 3
> >1/2 or 4 or even more in decent rice burners
> with
> >variable cam timing etc? Some of us just want
> to
> >have a place for some of the vintage stuff to
> >still have fun. I don't think a 300 inch
> >flathead is going to fare too well against an
> >electronic injected, computer ignitioned 302
> >small block do you? Those old Ardun
> conversions,
> >finned aluminum flatheads, nail head Buicks,
> >Y-block Fords with three deuces, 392 Hemis
> with
> >dual fours or Hilborns, and straight eight
> Buicks
> >ought to have a place to be showcased other
> than
> >in magazine articles and museums! Do I feel
> >threatened - hell no, I'm going to run my
> >flathead roadster anyway, but it sure doesn't
> >have much of a chance against a 289 Cobra or a
> >5.0 Mustang! But that doesn't mean I wouldn't
> >like to have a place where I could still run
> in a
> >competetive race. Don't worry, the old timers
> >will never threaten the mega buck, monster
> cubic
> >inch, electronically sparked, computer
> controled
> >cars. I'm sure you'll feel the pinch a little
> >when your forhead gets longer and your belt
> gets
> >bigger and the jet turbine cars, anti-gravity
> >crusers, and nuclear powered zillion mile per
> >hour science fiction racers of the future
> start
> >to crowd your big block and every other
> internal
> >combustion engine into antiquity. If that new,
> >leading edge, high tech stuff is what is most
> >important, then NHRA, Indycar, and F-1 events
> >have a lot of it! I for one, would still like
> to
> >see old Novis, Alphas, and Offys run, but they
> >can't share the track with modern stuff. In
> LSR
> >we race one at a time, so anything has a safe
> >place on the track. There's room for all of us
> in
> >LSR and I hope it stays that way.
> >
> >
> >--- dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com wrote:
> >> youve got to be kidding- a nostalgia class.
> a
> >> car with electronic fuel
> >> injection cant race against a car with
> >> mechanical fuel injection? a car
> >> with exhaust thermocouples cant race against
> a
> >> car without them ? a car
> >> with an electronic rev limiter cant race
> >> against a car without one? - this
> >> is rediculous - are you guys that threatened
> by
> >> some electronics that you
> >> cannot throw down and race against them? -
> from
> >> hearing about the
> >> "nostalgia" days from my pop, these were the
> >> days where you raced hardcore,
> >> with what you had - street or drags- the
> days
> >> of the real heads up warriors
> >> -not worried about what the other guy had
> under
> >> his hood ( oh, please
> >> excuse me -i'm sorry - i cannot race you
> >> because youve got a new 409 chevy)
> >> -race to the death ! - victory ! -none
> of
> >> this whining crap - if
> >> the "nostalgia" method is so great - go out
> and
> >> show em and kick their a- -
> >> es instead of sissifying this sport with a
> new
> >> "wheelchair" classification
> >> !
> >>
> >> and you know what else, now youre gonna get
> >> record hunters unplugging their
> >> oxygen sensors just so that they can grab
> the
> >> equivalent record in your
> >> "nostalgia" class ! -
> >>
> >> best regards -
> >> doug @ black radon engineering
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >=====
> >Dick J in East Texas
> > - - ECTA #72 - -
> > G/FCC - FX/STR
>
>
>
>
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Dick J in East Texas
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