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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 547115" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>MonavieLeaker,</p><p> </p><p>I noticed your avatar the other day and with this weekend being Etown just wanted to say how much I appreciate it.</p><p> </p><p>Not sure if you saw Phil Burgess's column from July 7, 2008' "Dragster Inside" at NHRA.com entitled "Dry Hops in Heaven" but leading up to Etown, he's <a href="http://www.nhra.com/blog/dragster-insider/2009/06/10/dry-hops-in-heaven-revisited/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">republished</span></a> it again.</p><p> </p><p>I noticed your pics from the Gators and not sure how old you are but thought if you hadn't you might enjoy Phil's article. I'm old school from the 70's and lots of these guys now gone are who I watched and in a few cases knew. As sad as it was to loose Scott, Phil's piece took away some of the sting and as the memories came flooding back, some of the misty eyes turned to smiled, grins and down right laughs. </p><p> </p><p>I know massive fuel pumps, dual mags, tons of overdrive and computer data make the sport the 4 sec./300 mph sheer rush that it is but for me, bring back single pumps, single mags, 2 speed lencos and those iconic dry hops and I'm happy as can be with 6.10, 220 mph runs all day long. It's when the cars didn't say Castrol, UPS or Budweiser, they said Blue Max, Chi-Town Hustler, Jungle Jim or my fav. War Eagle! Huge, Huge, Dale Pulde fan!</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.70sfunnycars.com/Photos/5dale77.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p>This car in 1977' used a stock stroke 426 hemi and the word is, burnt only 9 pistons all season while winning the IHRA Funny Car Championship. Long smokey burnouts (Chi-Town and Jungle Jim not uncommon to end up a lot closer to the 1000 ft. mark than to the starting line when the smoke cleared) and those dry hops! Nothing will ever compare to that IMO.</p><p> </p><p>Don't keep up like I use too as thanks to Steve Evans and the old TNN Sports Cavalcade, I got hooked on dirt roundy/round and open wheel, especially with the wings on the lid in the 1990's. Just lost the appeal to drag racing although I been watching ADRL and the Nostalgia Drag Racing for which Dale Pulde has brought the War Eagle back out and running the car. Here's a YouTube of the recent 2009' March Meet at Famosa Dragway and you can see the War Eagle at the 4:30 mark into the video. Notice all the FC's look like actual cars from the street.</p><p> </p><p>[video=youtube;QiQ0eNFNlqo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiQ0eNFNlqo[/video]</p><p> </p><p>And speaking of heaven and FC's, here's a <a href="http://www.competitionplus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10205&Itemid=24" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">great piece</span> </a>about 1970's Chicago and FC's from a great website, CompetitionPlus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 547115, member: 2189"] MonavieLeaker, I noticed your avatar the other day and with this weekend being Etown just wanted to say how much I appreciate it. Not sure if you saw Phil Burgess's column from July 7, 2008' "Dragster Inside" at NHRA.com entitled "Dry Hops in Heaven" but leading up to Etown, he's [URL="http://www.nhra.com/blog/dragster-insider/2009/06/10/dry-hops-in-heaven-revisited/"][COLOR=red]republished[/COLOR][/URL] it again. I noticed your pics from the Gators and not sure how old you are but thought if you hadn't you might enjoy Phil's article. I'm old school from the 70's and lots of these guys now gone are who I watched and in a few cases knew. As sad as it was to loose Scott, Phil's piece took away some of the sting and as the memories came flooding back, some of the misty eyes turned to smiled, grins and down right laughs. I know massive fuel pumps, dual mags, tons of overdrive and computer data make the sport the 4 sec./300 mph sheer rush that it is but for me, bring back single pumps, single mags, 2 speed lencos and those iconic dry hops and I'm happy as can be with 6.10, 220 mph runs all day long. It's when the cars didn't say Castrol, UPS or Budweiser, they said Blue Max, Chi-Town Hustler, Jungle Jim or my fav. War Eagle! Huge, Huge, Dale Pulde fan! [IMG]http://www.70sfunnycars.com/Photos/5dale77.JPG[/IMG] This car in 1977' used a stock stroke 426 hemi and the word is, burnt only 9 pistons all season while winning the IHRA Funny Car Championship. Long smokey burnouts (Chi-Town and Jungle Jim not uncommon to end up a lot closer to the 1000 ft. mark than to the starting line when the smoke cleared) and those dry hops! Nothing will ever compare to that IMO. Don't keep up like I use too as thanks to Steve Evans and the old TNN Sports Cavalcade, I got hooked on dirt roundy/round and open wheel, especially with the wings on the lid in the 1990's. Just lost the appeal to drag racing although I been watching ADRL and the Nostalgia Drag Racing for which Dale Pulde has brought the War Eagle back out and running the car. Here's a YouTube of the recent 2009' March Meet at Famosa Dragway and you can see the War Eagle at the 4:30 mark into the video. Notice all the FC's look like actual cars from the street. [video=youtube;QiQ0eNFNlqo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiQ0eNFNlqo[/video] And speaking of heaven and FC's, here's a [URL="http://www.competitionplus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10205&Itemid=24"][COLOR=red]great piece[/COLOR] [/URL]about 1970's Chicago and FC's from a great website, CompetitionPlus. [/QUOTE]
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