7/7/03

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COST OF NOSTALGIA TOP FUEL RACING

To Tim (Marshall): This is the last year of racing for the Bach & Gould Ford Front Engine Top Fuel car! It's history repeating itself. To be competitive you have to be willing to give a motor every round and have the manpower to change it in time for the next round. Instead of restricting the trick parts the powers that be are letting the guys have billet parts galore. It's just stupid. If we wanted to, where would we get billet parts of anything for a SOHC Ford?

No thanks, we're quitting. It's just not fun anymore!

Fred Bach

P.S. I was at a yard sale and picked up a old book by Char. Coombs titled DRAG RACING printed in 1971,very small book but I thought to myself this is what we're suppose to be doing. It says that the top fuel dragsters can reach speeds over 200 mph and E.T's of 6.64.

AS CLEAR AS GLASS

Jok, thanks for your interesting write up on window installation. I have a '74 AMC Matador

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coupe that I'm building for the bracket wars with a Mopar 440 in it, and it's getting the Lexan treatment done to it. I'm just glad I don't have curved glass like the '55 to '57 Chevies. I wanted to use pop rivets but after seeing your clean installation, the SS bolts and nuts seem to be the way to go, as this is a first time conversion for the car. I assume that I make a heavy brown paper template from the original glass and then transfer it to posterboard while adding an inch to the overall window dimensions, correct? Thanks again for your article, I've done a lot of searching to find out exactly what you wrote in your wrote up, and you've made it very clear as to what needs to be done.

Randy Helm
Houston, TX

STILL FURIOUS

To Jeff Leonard:

I couldn't agree more about the cars that were shown with ad space on their cars at an NHRA national event. Nice. . .NHRA always spouts about its beginnings when Wally Parks and others formed the organization to make it safe and for about 50 years have battled the image of dirtbag street-racers gone wild. Now we have cars racing that are promoting a movie that glorifies street racing and NHRA lets their images get on the TV show. Maybe NHRA has no control over what is painted on a car, but they make decisions about all kinds of things that affect racers, so how is it they allowed that advertising to get on their TV show? It's simple.......MONEY TALKS.

Rich Biebel