BLAKE LOOKING FOR A NEW DRIVER?

No PGA tour winner Jay Don Blake who also happens to campaign a race-winning NHRA Super Comp '57 Chevy isn't looking for a new golf club, but he may want a different driver (car). The Agent caught up with Jay Don while he was testing his racecar at Las Vegas. Blake, who has won a couple of local division races with the car, let it be known that he was interested in a Pro Stock ride and was starting to explore the possibilities. We'll be watching Jay Don this year and will be keeping score here in 1320 notes on how he performs on the race track and the golf tracks. (Jeff Burk photo) [1-31-2005]

A COUPLE OF DEGREES FOR NHRA AFD

It didn't take too long for the A fuel dragster racers to prove what they had told the NHRA techs all along: the AFD are much more sensitive to changes in nitro percentages than their supercharged big brothers.

Extensive testing at Las Vegas proved that, as Jerry Darien couldn't get his Ashley Force-driven car (shown) to run any quicker than a 5.48 and that pass only happened after the NHRA tech guys led by Ray Alley decided to let the tuners up the percentage from 96% to 98%. Darien let it be known that if his car didn't run any better he wouldn't embarrass himself or the team by running at the Winternationals.

Further testing at 98% at Phoenix saw the injected cars run some low 5.40's. According to Alley, reducing the percentage was aimed at making the quickest injected nitro cars run mid 5.30's at best. Ninety-eight percent hasn't proven to be the answer.

Here's the question the Agent wants to ask: Why didn't NHRA change the weight-to-cubic-inch rules for the supercharged cars and let them build bigger cubic inch engines?  (Ron Lewis photo)  [1-31-2005]

JEFFERS GETS ODDY'S C-5 'VETTE MOLDS

When Jim Oddy had Australian Murray Anderson build his ultra-swoopy Corvette, he also bought the body molds because Oddy and Anderson had paid an aerodynamicist a lot of money to make the C-5 Vette body slick.

Although many people have tried to buy bodies or the body mold from Oddy, he never made any bodies nor would he sell the molds. Since he sold that car to a racer in Greece and is now readying a Jerry Bickel Dodge Stratus, Oddy sold the mold to Larry Jeffers Pro Cars. Now Jeffers is going to add the C-5 body to his line of one-off bodies that include the '59 he just completed and a '70 Cuda body that is in the works. The line forms at the right for placing orders. [1-31-2005]