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Offline masracingtd1167

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My first R.E.D.
« on: October 02, 2014, 01:32:42 PM »
This was my first R.E.D. around 1976

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2014, 01:35:26 PM »
Bill, how did you like the transition from FED to RED?

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2014, 03:12:12 PM »
Hi Ricardo It seemed really strange at first . Not as loud and a whole lot easier to see and at that time just a fire proof jacket and a full face helmet . Now when I get back into one it's not too much different than my Fed exept everything seems to happen faster in a R.E.D.

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2014, 03:16:45 PM »
This was R.E.D. no2

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2014, 04:13:08 AM »
 Not sure why I always get a kick out of a RED with a the steering box (REd#1). But I found the opposite of you. My FED felt faster than my RED and they ran the same ET. And the RED was BORING.

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2014, 05:07:40 AM »
This was R.E.D. no2

Hi Bill, love the pictures, thank you. The cars look cool, although I haven't found a way to really like RED's yet. It seems sooo wrong..  ;)

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2014, 11:56:28 AM »
This was no 3 I never really liked this car

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2014, 12:03:47 PM »
The most common question in the Super Pro class at the local bracket track is what color is your BBC Rear Engine Dragster?  :)

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2014, 06:37:32 AM »
Bill - I see injected motors close to your heart all these years.  Alan

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2014, 12:28:38 AM »
Here is my 1'st and only RED, that I drove to 1973 NHRA Div 3 Top Fuel Championship. It was owned by Jerry Newman [Nitro Helper] from Wisconsin, who now tunes a number, [like up to 13] of N/FC, like Doc Hallady's Telstar, and he will be at CHRR to tune Blazes funny car.
The Hot Rod Shop sponsored RED was one of the last cars built by John Buttera in Wisconsin before he moved to SoCal. We ran a low numbered Donovan. I had been driving FED for 9 years up to then, and my dual engine BBC Top Gas dragster ran a best only 2 tenths slower than Jerry's TF up to that point. So I thought, "no problem, I can do this easy" Well let me tell you that car left HARD the 1'st time I drove it at the GatorNationals, we were second in top speed right behind Kuhl and Olsen. 
We had a beer company lined up to sponsor us in 1974, BUT, when we came back from racing NHRA World Finals, the country was in the oil embargo, so they said "not now guys, there's not enough gas for people to drive to work, they are going to make racing illegal, so we are just going to build more beer plants".
That's when I moved to Calif, to see if and how drag racing would survive, thank God the beer guys were wrong !

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Re: My first R.E.D.
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2014, 03:10:47 PM »
This was no 3 I never really liked this car

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