Originally Posted by
dirtcrazy4u
If you could turn back the clock to whatever era of dirt track racing where would you go ?
Myself it would be 1975 to 1980. The late models, or for that matter, dirt track cars were in gas stations, auto dealerships, junkyards, it seemed they were everywhere. I was a pit rat from Thursday to Sunday's on most weekends. You f*cked up on track and it was settled by getting blindsided in the pits.
Costs where controlled by how much you could do yourself on the race car. Big blocks were getting swapped out for the weight savings of a small block chevy. Low oil pressure, no problem, grab the shoe box of bearings and drop the pan. Power steering, laughable. Containment seats, your kidding right. Guys, drivers and crews, would get bounced around or burned changing out a hot Trans or quick change gears. The next night we where all back at it.
ADD to the story if you care to. I miss those days, lol, I'm not sure if most of you were around back then. Racing today has become bigger, for what the purses where to now, but the thing it's done is that we had b mains mostly every night. Eldora, pennsboro, the hub city, Syracuse.