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Date Posted: 05/12/11 9:12pm
Author: Greg Good
Subject: Been following it a lot longer than you know ;-)
In reply to: "Porky Pig " 's message, "My "two cents worth"" on 05/12/11 11:32am

The terms "Racing" and "Affordable" grow farther apart every year. You can't even build a fast street car anymore inexpensively. I don't know if those terms ever were very close together. I grew up around racing, working at Harold's Garage. I lived right around the corner from him. (I was the floor mopper and car washer mostly. Did brake jobs in between moppings. LOL. People could eat off his floor)

The only reason I mention this is because I know you knew him. It didn't matter what the rules were, he worked and worked and worked until his car ended up being one of the best in whatever class he was racing. Man hours equal money. Whether you take time from paying jobs and do it yuorself or pay someone else to do it, it costs.

The first car I remember him having was the Anglia.... called Bittersweet. There was always some smack talking going on between him and other guys he raced against (controversy is timeless), some of them even had engines built by Tommy's Father, Luther Costales. It was a helluva time and place to grow up. He took the same approach to his show cars too. It didn't matter how much worh it took, late nights, Sundays, going out of town to swap meets scrounging for parts, he did it, like swiss-cheesing the frame on the Anglia. How can you beat a guy like that? You and Roy are just like him as far as I can tell. And that is a compliment.

Those were fun times. Some things were cheaper I guess. One thing Harold din't spend money on was track rental. He tested right there on Friendly Road. The police would stop by and shake their fingers at him.

Anyway,I think David does and exceptional job, and puts a lot of time into it, time he could spend on other things. But getting money out of racing is an exercise in hair pulling.

Maybe I've inhaled too much aluminum, but I think relaxing the rules some would help car count, and car count gets bookings. In the 80's the TPS association had one main rule, no nitrous. Engines varied from 500" all the way up the biggest IHRA engines Reher was building at the time for the Dallas crew. All the cars were ex-Pro Stockers, and weighed about the same. Oddly enough, even with the engine size and no cylinder rule disparity, a 500" Ford won the championship one year.

That was of funny.

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