9/9/04

GOT A V CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER?

How bout in your JUST WONDERING column you could ask how the V Rods in PSB can be legal? I joined NHRA just so I could get my hands on their rulebook and have sent an email questioning them and get no answer. All the rules talk about American V Twin push rod engines and the VRods are DOHC and are NOT push rod engines, so how can they be legal ?

Thank you 

Dick Nichols

OH BOISE

Murphy gets the cover pic and two in the article plus ink, we get a “surprise” by Sean’s name. We didn’t run a five as Murphy did...but we made the final, BEATING Murphy! If it was that surprising that we made the final, maybe we should have gotten a pic (or three) or some ink, we’ve got sponsors who pay us to get their logos in pics too.

Maybe next time,

Bert Toulotte
Barrick Gaming Corp/ Plaza Hotel/High Speed Motorsports
Top Fuel Dragster

P.S. I’m friends with Jim so I’m not dissing him but your coverage...

OH BOISE 2

A small correction is in order. In your story on the NightFire race in Boise you go into some detail about the ‘B Main’ Top Fuel final featuring two Chevrolet powered cars. You even mentioned how great it was to see two Chevys on 95%. Unfortunately that isn’t quite correct. Although winner Lee Jennings is indeed a Chevy engined car, runner-up Terry Cox is powered by an early Chrysler-style Rodeck engine. As a matter of fact the owners of Terry’s car are John Rodeck and Terry’s father, John Cox. I might even go further and tell you that we only had 84% in the tank on the final, not 95%, as we are still dialing in the car and getting Terry comfortable with driving a front-engined Top Fuel Dragster.

It was great to see the Boise story, as the popularity of the nostalgia Top Fuel cars continues to grow. Knowing your passion for getting the story straight I thought I would pass along these details to you.

Keep up the good work.

Regards,

Henry Walther

The photos were sent to us by the track along with round sheets from which we wrote the story. We didn’t have our own staff covering the event, so had to make the best of what we had. Some people liked the effort. Read on. . .

IT’S BITCHIN’, BABY

Cover photo of fuel altered from Boise is awesome!

Tom Schiltz

THE OLDER WE GET. . .

Jeff: The last time I emailed you it was to chew on you about bad coverage of nostalgia events. Well this is to say that the Boise coverage was great and your nostalgia coverage just gets better each issue.  Keep it up and hope to see you at one of these races soon.

Frank Parks