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REAL modifieds

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There probably isn't one single thing on todays race car, other than fasteners, that's from stock pass. cars.All you need is a fat wallet!
Harvey Tollison said:

Today's modifieds are out of the box cars. If it ain't new it ain't fast. No junk yard parts these days. My question is , Has the higher speeds improved the race quality.

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Thanks guys, guess I'm not alone after all.And Johnny, my hat's off to you for building a true modfied.I can't understand how they can drive with the wheel up in your face either.Try that with no power steering!Some years ago, I built from scratch (in my cellar), a replica of one of my favorite '70s mods, using all junkyard parts.Brought back a lot of good memories!Smoked up the house many nites from welding.My wife didn't care too much for 7018 smoke!Nope you post some pictures of it....Ted.

REAL modifieds

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Any die-hard modified lovers out there?Remember back in the 60's -70's when the modifieds were just that.Not a cookie-cutter anywhere.Remember when you built your own car?Today, you just get out your plastic money and order it from whoever's chassis is hot this year.Everybody was always trying something different, today you just run whatever the rest are runningThere were some real true innovators building cars using their own ideas.All kinds of frames, steering setups,Flemke front ends, Chrysler torsion bars, Lincoln upper A-frames, quarter- eliptic springs, the list goes on and on.Remember using stock tie rod ends for everthing, instead of expensive Heim joints?Remember stacking bolts?Remember when you could run your asphalt car on dirt, and vise versa?Coupes, coaches, Pintos, Vegas, Gremlins Falcons,Rambler Americans.There were a lot of DIFFERENT bodies being used.Today, the paint and vinyl graphics are about the only difference.Remember when some guys were running different motors?I can remember cars with Cadillac, Olds, Pontiac, and even some with Buick motors.Remember no power steering?No brake bias valves, no alternator.A group 24 12V battery you had to charge every week. How about those big old finned aluminum Buick DRUM brakes?Remember a steering wheel you DIDN"T have to pull off to climb out?NO radio?A wide-five Ford hub & spindle mounted on a post or your haul rig to balance those 20" Goodyears?Today's racing doesn't even come close to being as good as it was at that time!Thanks for listening to my tirade.
updated by @ted-brown: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

Chevy 348 & 409 motors

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Thanks Ernie, I used to work in a junkyard, I rember seeing them in early 60's Impalas, and one in a big c60 dump truck.I think one of these would make a good-looking street rod engine.

Chevy 348 & 409 motors

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I wonder if anyone remembers the "other" small block Chevy, the 348-409.They were a cool looking engine, with those scalloped valve covers.I don't remember seeing too many of them in race cars, but I remember one in my area.Dick Watson ran a modified at Waterford ,with a (I think)409 in it, # diamond S., in the late 60's.Anyone have any racing experience with these motors?I think some of the internal parts such as oil pumps were the same as 283-327 etc.They used a lot of these in Chevy big trucks, I always heard they had a lot of low-end grunt.
updated by @ted-brown: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

The penality for a Crime Committed over a Thin Quarter

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I hope you're right Johnny!It's time for a change.Thanks, Ted.
Johnny Mallonee said:

Slowely but surely the old way is creeping back into the limelight. Just watch and read, things are being said quietly in the room. The pawns are being put into place as you read this. Soon,very soon there will be a major changing of the show. Not just the bigtime guys up front but the whole show will change. Old time ways will be put into place and the program will be something you have only read about. Its coming and coming faster every day. When the Old World Racing System resumes play you will wonder if you are in hog heaven..

Ted Brown said:

Stuff like this is the reason I don't like big-time "stock car" racing.The pile of crap just keeps getting deeper.NASCAR is about as screwed up as the government, and we all know how bad that is!

The penality for a Crime Committed over a Thin Quarter

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Stuff like this is the reason I don't like big-time "stock car" racing.The pile of crap just keeps getting deeper.NASCAR is about as screwed up as the government, and we all know how bad that is!

Race car haulers

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That's the truth!You could buy a lot of tires for the price of one of them...Ted. Harvey Tollison said:

I miss the open trailes, like Petty had in the 60's , Kids got to see the race cars. Now days half the short track cars have too much money tied up on haulers.

Race car haulers

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Right on Tim!I realize these new montrosities are great for racers, but I'll never like them.A lot of race tracks have tight pit areas, trailers and ramp trucks take up a lot less room. Tim Leeming said:

I had my race car pulled to the track for my first race behind a green Ford pickup truck belonging to Marty Stephens' Daddy, with Marty driving, with the race car hooked to the truck with a logging chain threaded through a six foot long piece of pipe. I steered the race car. Got quite a bit of attention when we stopped at the Sunoco station at the intersection of I-26 and 378 in West Columbia. Thankfully, we didn't wreck the car so we towed it home that way. Herbert Corley loaned us a trailer for the rest of the races in 1969 and then we bought our own trailer during the off-season. I never used a ramp truck or a closed trailer. Part of all my fun was towing the car on the open trailer to all the tracks we ran. One of the most awesome starts to a movie is the "Tiny Lund-Hard Charger" movie where the camera is panning all the racecars on open trailers and ram trucks leaving a track in a rainout. I sure wish we could find that movie. The opentrailers/ramp trucks are so much more memorable for me than the huge enclosed trailer/billboards of today.
Tim

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I guess you could say it's progress, but like you said you sure can't see thru them! STEVEN JEFFREY BROOME said:

BIG HAULERS ARE BETTER FOR THE CREW BUT NOT FOR THE FANS.MY HOME TOWN HAS THE OLDEST CONTINUALLY RUNNING MIDGET TRACK IN THE COUNTRY.ANGELL PARK SPEEDWAY@ SUN PRAIRIE ,WI. THEY ARE CURRENTLY FIGHTING OVER BIG RIGS IN THE PITS AS THEY HAVE FOR YEARS.I HAVE SEEN CARS IN THE BACK OF A SCHOOL BUS,MIDGETS IN A PICK UP TRUCK AND EVEN DRIVEN TO THE TRACK, BUT I CAN'T SEE THROUGH A BIG RIG. STEVE BROOME