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« on: October 27, 2016, 06:12:07 PM »
I thought this might be the best place to post an introduction. I was around and ran in the Top Gas bracket until NHRA killed it. I went into Funnycars then for about 8 years. My avatar has the last one on its last day in the nitro match races. Of late I mounted the body and did the tin work on the Tom Hoover Showtime car the Doc Haliday of Telstar owns. Then I mounted the body and tin work on the Beartown Shaker a nostalgia fuel FC tribute car to Bill Schifsky for whom I worked for early on. I went back to engineering school, did 30 years hard labor HaHa then retired.
Today I cruise in my 41 Willys with a blown sbc. It's got 20+k miles so it gets around.
Now here is the question....there is some serious steak eating to be done by the winner as a bet. As long as I can remember there were no single engine dragsters that ran a 6.99 or better before NHRA killed the class for 1972. There were a couple shortly after in procomp but they don't count. There were some of the twins that did run a 6 and many ran 200+ but no single ran either or both. Can anyone show me a ligitmate 6 by a single engine TopGas dragster??
I've searched and scoured everywhere and I can't find any info to refute this that can prove it. We ran ok at 7.50 190 occasionally as a single but we weren't the best. As I recall 7.40 was getting it on and any thing over 190 was making tracks but alas no 6's and no 200's. I even asked Dennis Friend one of the instigators of 2 to go twin engine dragster site. He pointed me to a huge list OD runs but no 6 and no 200.