IHRA UPS CUBIC INCHES FOR NITROUS PRO MODS

Unless you happened to go to IHRA's site and clicked on the rules section (as the Agent does occasionally) this little bit of rather significant information would be unknown to you. According to the posting on the IHRA site, the line in the rulebook concerning Pro Mod engine displacement is changed, increasing maximum allowable cubic inches from 711 ci to 716 ci. The Agent's question is: As long as IHRA is increasing the cubic inches why not really give the nitrous racers a break and make the limit 816? [12-23-2002]

A '57 BUICK ROAD MASTER AND THE RETURN OF BOB RIEGER...SORT OF

California Racer Kip Dupuis recently took delivery of a '57 Buick Road Master built in Tim McAmis's Hawk Point, MO race car shop. The Agent had heard that the car was originally going to be a '57 Oldsmobile but morphed into the Buick you see here. According to the Agent's sources, Dupuis bought most of the Hemi engines and parts that Bob Rieger had for his '57 and will be putting them between the rails of this behemoth.

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One of the Agent's operatives told him that Rieger's ultra-trick McAmis- built '57 Chevy (that ran in Pro Mod last season and was later converted to a Turbo car after Rieger became disenchanted with the class) has been bought by East Coast racer Steve Salvador who bought and raced Jim Oddy and Fred Hahn's old '53 'Vette "swing-arm" car last season. Supposedly the '57 had to go back to the McAmis shop to be retrofitted for a blower motor. [12-23-2002]

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