You make a good point. I do think that most everything out there is
covered at present, however.
When I started racing at Bonneville they were bragging about having 70
classes. I don't have any idea how many there are at present. We do have
the vintage classes that cover most of what has been discussed here,
though. SCTA/BNI has always attempted to keep competition fair as
technology advances and I think that trend will continue. Supercharging
is an example. Blowers used to advance one class on gasoline, then two,
and now separate classes.
Tom, Redding CA 8:10AM PST
Dick J wrote:
>
> Doug, I think you're missing a subtle point here.
> Those were the days when the greatest
> breakthrough in automotive history was one HP per
> cubic inch. What are production cars doing now 3
> 1/2 or 4 or even more in decent rice burners with
> variable cam timing etc? Some of us just want to
> have a place for some of the vintage stuff to
> still have fun. I don't think a 300 inch
> flathead is going to fare too well against an
> electronic injected, computer ignitioned 302
> small block do you? Those old Ardun conversions,
> finned aluminum flatheads, nail head Buicks,
> Y-block Fords with three deuces, 392 Hemis with
> dual fours or Hilborns, and straight eight Buicks
> ought to have a place to be showcased other than
> in magazine articles and museums! Do I feel
> threatened - hell no, I'm going to run my
> flathead roadster anyway, but it sure doesn't
> have much of a chance against a 289 Cobra or a
> 5.0 Mustang! But that doesn't mean I wouldn't
> like to have a place where I could still run in a
> competetive race. Don't worry, the old timers
> will never threaten the mega buck, monster cubic
> inch, electronically sparked, computer controled
> cars. I'm sure you'll feel the pinch a little
> when your forhead gets longer and your belt gets
> bigger and the jet turbine cars, anti-gravity
> crusers, and nuclear powered zillion mile per
> hour science fiction racers of the future start
> to crowd your big block and every other internal
> combustion engine into antiquity. If that new,
> leading edge, high tech stuff is what is most
> important, then NHRA, Indycar, and F-1 events
> have a lot of it! I for one, would still like to
> see old Novis, Alphas, and Offys run, but they
> can't share the track with modern stuff. In LSR
> we race one at a time, so anything has a safe
> place on the track. There's room for all of us in
> LSR and I hope it stays that way.
>
> --- dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com wrote:
> > youve got to be kidding- a nostalgia class. a
> > car with electronic fuel
> > injection cant race against a car with
> > mechanical fuel injection? a car
> > with exhaust thermocouples cant race against a
> > car without them ? a car
> > with an electronic rev limiter cant race
> > against a car without one? - this
> > is rediculous - are you guys that threatened by
> > some electronics that you
> > cannot throw down and race against them? - from
> > hearing about the
> > "nostalgia" days from my pop, these were the
> > days where you raced hardcore,
> > with what you had - street or drags- the days
> > of the real heads up warriors
> > -not worried about what the other guy had under
> > his hood ( oh, please
> > excuse me -i'm sorry - i cannot race you
> > because youve got a new 409 chevy)
> > -race to the death ! - victory ! -none of
> > this whining crap - if
> > the "nostalgia" method is so great - go out and
> > show em and kick their a- -
> > es instead of sissifying this sport with a new
> > "wheelchair" classification
> > !
> >
> > and you know what else, now youre gonna get
> > record hunters unplugging their
> > oxygen sensors just so that they can grab the
> > equivalent record in your
> > "nostalgia" class ! -
> >
> > best regards -
> > doug @ black radon engineering
> >
> >
> >
>
> =====
> Dick J in East Texas
> - - ECTA #72 - -
> G/FCC - FX/STR
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