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FUNNY CARS OFFER COMPETITION
During the time that the Fuel Altereds were really getting established another class was doing the same...Funny Car. As great a pass as Emery's 7.65 was, Jack Chrisman pushed his factory-backed Mercury Comet to a 7.60 at the Indy U.S. Nationals. That was a hellacious run given that the number two qualifier at Indy ran an 8.16! Put country simple, the Funny Cars-and they numbered well over 100 in number nationally, if not 200-had captured the public's fancy. Only Top Fuel had the edge on them.

Al Reid blazes the tires in the Pippins & Reid "Trip" Fuel Altered at Orange County.

In 1968, the Fuel Altereds mounted a charge of their own. On January 21, Irwindale booked a heads-up Funny Car versus Fuel Altered race pitting "Dyno Don" Nicholson, "Jungle Jim" Liberman, "Seaton's Shaker" with Terry Hedrick up, and Dick Loehr for the Funnies against Borsch, Matsubara, Emery, and Leon Fitzgerald. In a mild upset, the unwieldy altereds won six races compared to five for the Funny Cars.

What an incredible show it was! In round one, Emery's "Pure Hell" roadster lowered the AA/FA e.t. mark to a 7.63 with a win over Liberman's 7.97/180.36. And two rounds later, a dream match-up produced Liberman's Chevy II Nova against "Wild Willie's" '23-T. Borsch almost lost control of the car, but did lose the race on a 7.86/183.26 to 8.25,/179.64 duke.

That race, the earlier Irwindale Grand Prix, and what happened at the 1968 NHRA Winternationals firmly put the Fuel Altereds on near equal footing with the Top Fuelers and Funny Cars. At the NHRA race there was no AA/FA class offered, but Borsch showed to run in the handicapped SuperEliminator. On a qualifying run, he made what arguably was the best run ever for a Fuel Altered ... a stunning 7.29/202.70, almost four tenths faster than any AA/FA had ever gone. To add insult to injury, that Feb. 25, Borsch took on "Fast Eddie" Schartman's seven-second factory Mercury Comet Funny Car and stuffed him two out of three at Irwindale.

Do the math. The quickest Funny Car time was a 7.60 by Chrisman; the quickest Fuel Altered pass was Borsch's 7.29. The wild, out-of-control roadsters and coupes had arrived.

Next issue, the beginning of the West Coast Fuel Altered tour of the East, quicker and faster runs, a round-by-round description of a typical Fuel Altered eliminator, the finish of the classic period, and the "Altered Ego."