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Well, the cats out of the bag now. A total of 4 small blocks bit the dust, and a turbo Mazda didn't look to good either. All gave their best to the cause, doing many, many (well almost all, sorry Hank) miles in the pursuit of the perfect lap, and they died in the sadle so to speak.

But there were also those who carried on with honor and speed. Peter B's GT350 sb and Terry Shanks supercharged (not blown) small moder survived and will run another day. Barcalounger Joe R's car started out down the dark path on Friday, but was revived and protected by the halo from the old FE holley he borrowed. Said Joe, " Since I put that old FE carb on, it ain't never run so good. What else you boys got that I can stuff in there to make run better." or something like that. "It ain't primer, it's dove grey" Paul Formanek's FE ERA had a minor scuffle with a distributor gear. He said it had less teeth than a back woods grandma, but dug into the rusty parts box and cobbled up an old Ford dual point and got it runnin by noon Friday. An amazing job of determination and junkyard wiring. And me, except for a bobble with a Hurst shifter spring clip (which I had a spare for, I don't know why), it was "pour in the gas-drive the car, pour in more gas- drive the car. A single tweak with rear tire pressure, with the help of my able tire checker Cranky, and it ran like a scalded snake all day long.

It's too bad that the damage was so extensive to those guys, but I bet visions of strokers and trick heads and roller cams are starting to surface, pushing back the hurt. Wait till next year...

McFEz