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Old February 7th, 2022, 09:41 AM
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Old February 7th, 2022, 09:58 AM
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Everybody's hero David Freiburger goes 14's LMAO running stupid rich

67 Cutlass just went 11:17
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Everybody's hero David Freiburger goes 14's LMAO running stupid rich

67 Cutlass just went 11:17
What car was Freiburger driving?
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Old February 7th, 2022, 10:14 AM
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1980's brownish maroon trans-am. Supposedly a project car with a stock diff

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Old February 7th, 2022, 10:19 AM
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1980's brownish maroon trans-am. Supposedly a project car with a stock diff
Thanks. In context, that doesn't sound like a terrible pass.
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Old February 7th, 2022, 10:01 PM
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The F body “Uncle Sam” belongs to friends of mine. They just got that car put together last week, this is its maiden voyage.

That car hauls ***!!
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Old February 8th, 2022, 02:03 AM
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I was watching. I just put a thread in Racing. That saffron 67 went 10.88 as a best, but has a bunch of 11s posted and he's running DYO.
The silver 65 looks "too fast" to be Olds powered at 7.50, unless its a Rocket BBO. Darce Laws, anyone know him?
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Old February 8th, 2022, 10:57 AM
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Who misses competitive thrash drag racing? Nobody? Me either. I never had a girl along, maybe that is the difference.


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Old February 8th, 2022, 11:36 AM
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1980's brownish maroon trans-am. Supposedly a project car with a stock diff
Theyre shooting an episode of Roadkill, they just bought the Firebird the day before the race started
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Old February 8th, 2022, 12:40 PM
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No racing today, so they'll have plenty of time to work on it.
I want to be like the guys that hit all of them. Independent wealth would help greatly. I can see the headline now "Lottery Winner Squanders Millions Doing Drag and Drive Events"
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Old February 11th, 2022, 05:55 AM
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Would love to know what happened to the 65. His day 1 ET was 7.503@188, and days 3-4 are 18.42@75 and 13.04@102.

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Old February 11th, 2022, 06:58 AM
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Action is 2-8e today.

Both cars are in this chart. OLDSMOBILE is too long for the field so just 'e' shows for brand, 442 for model. I gather without my glasses the '65 must have some problems. The 67 runs seems as expected.

EDIT: All the pink fields are dropouts

https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...ee+Results.pdf

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Old February 11th, 2022, 07:38 AM
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Would love to know what happened to the 65. His day 1 ET was 7.503@188, and days 2-3 are 18.42@75 and 13.04@102.
Perhaps transmission linkage problem. They will hang up between the reverse to 1st gear shifts.
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Har-har.
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Old February 12th, 2022, 04:11 AM
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I watched the awards last night. Frieburger and Finnegan gave the Firebird away to a daughter that was playing crew chief to her dad. Hits right in the feels.

I don't understand the 8.50 cap on some of the classes. And, that goes the same for 10.0 in some aspects. I need a 12.0 class. It's not the fastest, but I'm also not going to cut up a real 442 for a cage. Most of my hackery can be undone if it ever goes full restoration.
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Old February 12th, 2022, 06:11 AM
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I think the 8.50 was a 'bulls eye' category. Some of the entrants got very close such as 8.52 and still road drivable per the other rules.

The silver 65 TT BBC knocked off a mid seven second pass at the very end, really hauling. The 67 ran about like iron Olds powered 65-7 have been running for 50 years. Nice to see a olds powered car in the mix anyway. The event providing free VP fuel and free nitrous fills within a window of competition was great. M/T was providing free tire work, as well as having tires available at the tracks.

Glad no one got badly hurt.
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Old February 12th, 2022, 10:39 AM
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There were a bunch of 8.50s- 235, 275, street race..... basically anything in B class. A was quicker than 8.49, B was 8.50-9.99, and C was 10.0 and slower. Bull's Eye was a random 2 numbers after the decimal point each day.
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Old February 12th, 2022, 03:16 PM
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OK got it - I missed them. Coudln't watch it wall to wall but had it on most of the time.

The Tesla crapping out at the very end last run was outstanding. Man that Chet guy the driver was going ape, he will hear about that forever.

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OK got it - I missed them. Coudln't watch it wall to wall but had it on most of the time.

The Tesla crapping out at the very end last run was outstanding. Man that Chet guy the driver was going ape, he will hear about that forever.
Indeed!!! Not exactly a good endorsement for EVs! 🤣🤣
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