Final Round Results:

Top Fuel W: Roger Lechtenberg, Cedar Falls, IA, 6.226/189.90 mph R-U: Randy Bridges, Virden, IL, 6.484/206.45	Open Fuel W: Bob Beedy JR., Homewood, IL, 6.861/205.51 R-U: Dominic Paris (photo below), Loves Park, IL, 6.896/214.31
Jr. Fuel W: Pat Malloy, Buchanan, VA, 7.327/180.02 R-U: Stu Sandhaus, Pittsburgh, PA, 7.328/178.59	Nostalgia Comp W: Don Nave, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 8.695/136.37 R-U: Haskel Zeloof, Pennington, NJ, 8.162/161.88
Nostalgia Gas W: Bill Bush, Floyds Knobs, IN, 9.160/143.32 R-U: Darrell Wathen, Utica, KY, 8.654/151.02	Quick 64 W: Mike Peskar, Ashtabula, OH, 10.594/122.62 R-U: Harry Messick, Pennsville, NE, 9.234/146.11
Oldies W: Gordy Bennett, Pennsville, NJ, 10.886/109.49 R-U: Larry McLendon, Summerfield, FL, 12.070/112.50	Classic Super Stock W: Doug Duell, Newburgh, IN, 10.008/131.97 R-U: Bob Bunum, Lexington, KY, 10.084/135.96

Although it looks all show, this '39 Ford gasser was go, too, sporting a chromed Chevy engine and shiney fuel injector stacks.	Modern flathead roadster sports pretty paint, supercharger with two-hole injector and magneto, ran in the eights.
Anything was liable to show up at Beech Bend, including this Competition coupe.	Part of the "Geezer Gassers" is this blue Henry J. There was one other, plus several "English" gassers and plenty of Willyses.
"Modern" Speed Sport Roadster raced in competition, ran on fuel.	Fast Dave Powers now shoes Don Nicholson's white Comet. The car, like several Thunderbolts, ran much quicker than it did in the old days.

DALE'S TUNING TIP:

Notice how lately many bracket dragster drivers are doing shorter and shorter burnouts? We have, and we think we know why this is becoming more of a trend in big-money bracket racing. Former IHRA Top Dragster racer Johnny Cofield, of Ranburne, Alabama, told us about this several years ago. He eschewed the long, John Force-type burnouts because the tires on his rear-engine dragster often picked up small bits of debris past the starting line, AND the rubber buildup past the starting line was often thinner than behind the line. Plus the backup from a long burnout chewed up racing time and built extra heat in his engine. Cofield often did a burnout from the water box and stopped well short of the starting line for those reasons. Made sense to us, and it evidently makes sense to others nowadays.

And that's your Dale Wilson tip for this issue.