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12-22-2008, 07:38 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance 427 Side-Oiler
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Makes me feel old-and i'm not THAT old..
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12-22-2008, 08:37 PM
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I am that old. Sure miss the good old days. I saw most of them at the Fremont drag strip many years ago. Was a shock when Jungle Jim died.
Thanks for posting this.
Terry
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12-23-2008, 06:26 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Classic Roadsters
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I remember all that
Drag racing was way more exciting back then because it was new given the big engines and the blowers as they moved from slow cars in the 50s to high HP cars in the 60s. Before then it was just 50s cars and all they knew how to do was switch engines (like putting a 401 Buick nailhead in a chevy. So this stuff was really cool and brutal. It was massive torque overkill. Today drag racing is too refined and technilogical. Plus, it is same old, same old.
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12-23-2008, 06:59 AM
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[quote=CobraEd;Today drag racing is too refined and technilogical. [/QUOTE]
and no more Go-go boots & boobs on the starting line.... 
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12-23-2008, 07:07 AM
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Bill, if you remember that then you really are That Old.
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12-23-2008, 07:43 AM
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Ron just turned older.
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12-23-2008, 08:01 AM
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I remember those days quite well. I believed then and I still do that the drivers that drove the AA/F Altereds were the craziest SOBs in drag racing. Same motors as the Top Fuel dragsters but with a model T or Anglia body on a 90 inch or so wheelbase. Crazy! Not surprised the NHRA dropped the class. Sure were fun to watch though!
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12-23-2008, 12:20 PM
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Spent many sundays at Connecticut Dragway enjoying the smell of the fuelees. We made our own dragstrip with painted start and end lines painted on the road out in the middle of the tobacco fiields. today the fields gone and its a hugh industrial park.
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12-23-2008, 12:28 PM
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[quote=hound dog;! Not surprised the NHRA dropped the class. /QUOTE]
That's 'cause the NHRA lacks what those altered drivers had in spades-BALLS
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12-23-2008, 12:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Smokingcobra2
Spent many sundays at Connecticut Dragway enjoying the smell of the fuelees. We made our own dragstrip with painted start and end lines painted on the road out in the middle of the tobacco fiields. today the fields gone and its a hugh industrial park.
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Colchester.Yep.And then they sold it and found the land to be un-safe for certain structures.Then it was a test facility of some type-Consumer Reports(?)
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12-23-2008, 01:27 PM
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Well I'm glad that I'm that old to remember those days.
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12-23-2008, 05:32 PM
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Quote:
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Well I'm glad that I'm that old to remember those days.
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Me tooo! Remember Jungle Pam and Linda Vaughn. I wonder how many "dreams" could be attributed to those two women!
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12-23-2008, 05:47 PM
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i saw a picture of jungle pam a few years ago, a current picture, she still stops traffic but in a different way.
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12-23-2008, 06:20 PM
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Me tooo! Remember Jungle Pam and Linda Vaughn. I wonder how many "dreams" could be attributed to those two women!
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What a pair they had, I mean were.  |
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