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Originally posted by 1320racer:

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Originally posted by Mike Rietow:

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Originally posted by 1320racer:

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Originally posted by SlyFox:
Like it or not, there are at least a few successful racers out there who don't know a screwdriver from a hammer

Actually there are many including arguably the best bracket racer of all time and he has and would admit it.

Do you read what you post before pressing enter?

Read what you just said. "There are many, arguably the best bracket of all time, who doesn't know a hammer from a screwdriver, and he has and would admit it"

You must be another idiot. What part of my reply to the quote above it don’t you understand? I’ll say it again...arguably the best bracket racer in the country has very little mechanical ability and knowledge by his own admission and many of the most successful bracket racers are much like him.

Your neighborhood sounds weak. It's no wonder you have weak idea's and you're weak in fundamental performance knowledge.

Most of the people I race with don't know a hammer from a screwdriver.

- Ed

LOL!

Good God Almighty! Can you imagine the grief these poor "Pro" engine & transmission builders get? I can.

My first race car was a 66 Nova I found that a guy had started gutting but never got far. Bought it for $275. We gutted it to a shell and built full chassis. we made brake system use parts from scrap yard. Pinto rotor with Fierro calipers, built the a-arms, built rear end housing and most parts on the car. Transmission was from junkyard,with new clutches and a valvebody we built using kit to make it transbake setup. Stock block,crank,rods , high compression pistons and roller cam.Built in shop. This was 1985.

I ran the car 3 years and had great time with it. Bought dragster because I wanted to go faster cheap.
When we ran funny car and TA/D we ran our systems on our engine combo's/ Yes we had to work thru first year of getting tune up that would run with the top of the field. Yes I had help. When we did get it working I never had to get someone to tell me why it stumbled. I bought it and knew the combo.
For me the enjoyment of the build is main reason to have a race car, Hell if I wanted to drive someone else stuff I would just build street rod.

As other have said it is what draws me to motorsports and engines in general. the thrill of building it and making it work or figuring out why it doesn't and working to fix it.

And who is this "best bracket racer in the country"?

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Originally posted by ferndaleflyer:
And who is this "best bracket racer in the country"?

Whoever it was who won the most races, on the least entry's.

Does that sound reasonable?

Who was the best hitter in baseball?

The guy with the best batting average right?

I'd guess The King, Scotty or Lynch has the best batting average.

Baseball analogy doesn't work, must take into account degree of difficulty.

We like to call them Checkbook racer. But if they are having fun doing what they want why would I care.
Me personnally I enjoy the building and wenching on the cars with my friends.

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Originally posted by 1leg:
We like to call them Checkbook racer. But if they are having fun doing what they want why would I care.
Me personnally I enjoy the building and wenching on the cars with my friends.

I agree I don’t care in the least if someone pays for everything or even if someone else pays for everything and they just show up and drive the car. It has no bearing on me.

I do what I do because that’s how I want things. I could afford to pay someone else for everything if I chose to but then I wouldn’t have anything to do that relaxes me. I don’t have any other hobbies but this.

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Originally posted by 1leg:
We like to call them Checkbook racer. But if they are having fun doing what they want why would I care.
Me personnally I enjoy the building and wenching on the cars with my friends.

I would not care but I get tired of Loser calling everyone else SHYT boxes or what ever it says.

Just like the daily soap operas, DRR is completely predictable. A worthy topic is presented, and SHAZAM! the drama retards show up with flame throwers and sledge hammers. As predictable as dropping a bowling ball on your bare foot. At least one doesn't have to buy a ticket to the shyt show

RIP

I look at this way. We are all spending our money on our cars. We are doing because we enjoy it.

Bottom line my money my time and I will use both the way I like. I like building about everything. Hell half the furniture in my house that I built was also built by me. Does that make me btter than the guy who buys a house? Not if he is buying it from me or hiring me to build it. LOL

I do have a different admiration for those who build it and make it work. Nothing against a guy who makes more money at something else while his is built buy other. Unless he thinks his is greatest thing ever and everyone else has shyt because it not what he likes.

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Originally posted by 1320racer:

Actually there are many including arguably the best bracket racer of all time and he has and would admit it.

If I wanted to hear from a Stinking @$$hole I would F@rt. STFU BIOTCH.

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Baseball analogy doesn't work, must take into account degree of difficulty.

If you're talking Super pro, where is it not difficult?

The big money stuff isn't anymore difficult than a Saturday night local race in Florida.

You can have a world class Super Pro race at any local race, the only thing more difficult about big money racing for an average joe is the entry. I'm not talking once, I'm talking over several entry's, you can get in the hole 100k real fast average Joe.

The more you win the easier it gets, the more you lose (dig a hole) the more difficult it gets average Joe.

If you have money to burn, it's like racing local because the entry don't phase you.

The racing on the track is no more difficult,it's the entry that's more difficult over several entry's.

Any money I make racing, is profit. I never got in the hole.

Still waiting for the biotch curly cue to post 1 big check with his name on it for winning at least $5,000 in s real bracket race but he can’t because he has never won a real bracket race that paid that or more! Fucing loser with 2 pikes of shyt!

We are in an age in America where men working with their own hands to create, build, refine, is no longer seen by many as an attribute. I look at all these kids, and young adults and even 30 something man bun wearing fools who wouldn't know which end of a screwdriver is the business end, and I see weakness. I see a decline in masculinity and a trend toward unisex fools who have to call someone to oil door hinges. These "men" in name only would be no help if the stuff hit the fan in this country. This trend is showing itself in drag racing as well. I thought a number of years ago that there could be a business opportunity brewing in sportsman drag racing. Get the biggest stacker trailer you can find and haul dragsters that you maintain to races where the owners simply hop in and go racing. Make them reliable, cookie cutter cars and charge for the transportation, maintenance and repair costs. Of course then it would be luxury accommodations for them and their kids, and you would have to figure out the logistics of getting that stuff there too. I bet it could be a thing.

^^^^ Dang Bucky, you hit the nail on the head (unfortunately).

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^^^^ Dang Bucky, you hit the nail on the head (unfortunately).

He described feudalism. A few own everything and surfs are allowed to maintain it for them.

This is exactly what is taking place, this is the transformation taking place.

The world economic forum Klaus Schwab is publicly stating by 2030, no one will own anything, and they'll love it. Yeah, they'll love it or be replaced by someone who will.

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We are in an age in America where men working with their own hands to create, build, refine, is no longer seen by many as an attribute. I look at all these kids, and young adults and even 30 something man bun wearing fools who wouldn't know which end of a screwdriver is the business end, and I see weakness. I see a decline in masculinity and a trend toward unisex fools who have to call someone to oil door hinges. These "men" in name only would be no help if the stuff hit the fan in this country. This trend is showing itself in drag racing as well. I thought a number of years ago that there could be a business opportunity brewing in sportsman drag racing. Get the biggest stacker trailer you can find and haul dragsters that you maintain to races where the owners simply hop in and go racing. Make them reliable, cookie cutter cars and charge for the transportation, maintenance and repair costs. Of course then it would be luxury accommodations for them and their kids, and you would have to figure out the logistics of getting that stuff there too. I bet it could be a thing.

Bam! There it is!

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He described feudalism. A few own everything and surfs are allowed to maintain it for them.

On a lesser scale isn't that the plght of every working man? It certainly was for Frank Manzo and Shiek Khalid. I've never worked for a man that was poorer than I was.