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Old Aug 22, 2007 | 10:13 PM
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Real racin'.........

I just watched a couple episodes of "Back in the Day,"(at least Jr. is good for something). Great racing.
No 19 year old drivers...
No restrictor plates.....
Matador running up front....
Huge engines......
K&K Insurance, Homan & Moody, Woods Brothers, Bondy-Long Ford.........
The powerful P's, Petty and Pearson with a mixture of Baker, Isaac, Marlin, Parsons, Lorenzen.....
Chevy's exploding all over the place......
Windshields being sucked into the cars...
Two tire/no tire pit stops..........
Long, long, long slides in the infield grass........
Purolator Mercury outrunning a Dodge hemi....
The art of drafting.......
Then we have the reality of the crap we have to watch today........ jd
 
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Old Aug 22, 2007 | 11:07 PM
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Those old race days were great. They raced real cars, not these phoney lookalikes. Those drivers knew how to drive real iron.
 
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Old Aug 23, 2007 | 02:52 PM
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Yeah! And bring back figure eight racing, too! I was with my buddy once when he and another guy played chicken. I never felt so alive. I can remember when seatbelts were first mandated...a lot of people were real upset.
 
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Old Aug 23, 2007 | 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by jimdandy
I just watched a couple episodes of "Back in the Day,"(at least Jr. is good for something). Great racing.
No 19 year old drivers...
No restrictor plates.....
Matador running up front....
Huge engines......
K&K Insurance, Homan & Moody, Woods Brothers, Bondy-Long Ford.........
The powerful P's, Petty and Pearson with a mixture of Baker, Isaac, Marlin, Parsons, Lorenzen.....
Chevy's exploding all over the place......
Windshields being sucked into the cars...
Two tire/no tire pit stops..........
Long, long, long slides in the infield grass........
Purolator Mercury outrunning a Dodge hemi....
The art of drafting.......
Then we have the reality of the crap we have to watch today........ jd
i agree 100%
 
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Old Aug 23, 2007 | 05:48 PM
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Ditto!

Cowboy Steve
 
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Old Aug 23, 2007 | 07:15 PM
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I remember the days of real stock car racing. I would watch racing again if they went back to the rules of the old days. They should have to market the cars they run like they did back then. Some of the best muscle ever built were the ones built to qualify for racing on the track. Todays racing doesn't interest me. I can't tell the cars apart.
 
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Old Aug 23, 2007 | 07:44 PM
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yes like my favorite the torino talledaga!
 
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