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[Denis]

copo:

if it's not too late, i'll pay you good money to bring back a t-shirt with the name of that town where you wrote from.

if it's too late, well, phucket.

sorry, sometimes i can't help myself...

[COPO]

Sorry Denis, enroute to Cochin, India now. Phuket is actually pronounced poooket. Of course they had the Hard Rock Cafe shirts, but I wasn't sure of your size. If you want something in India let me know. So far, I haven't come across any rice powered Yenko or Motion cars, just elephant powered. A Mopar lovers dream.

[MikeA]

I was glad to see there was some racing at the Supercar Reunion. Does anyone know what Ray Morrsion's ('68 COPO Nova) ETs were? That is a very cool Nova!!

[Chevy454]

MikeA:

I had my brother dig up his time slips from the Reunion last year (since he ran Ray), and here is what it said:

R/T: .6716
60: 2.2245
330: 5.9056
1/8: 8.9598
1/8 MPH: 80.57

That 1/8 mile ET is around a mid-high 13 second 1/4 mile, which is pretty good considering no tuning on the car, and that he doesn't race it on a regular basis. It would have been interesting to have saw what kind of ETs Ray would have turned with the BFG Drag Radials in his trailer...

[MikeA]

Thanks for the info. Why only an 1/8th mile?

[Chevy454]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Why only an 1/8th mile?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, the track used to be 1/4, but a couple of years ago, for some reason (insurance?), they backed it down to 1000 ft. But, on the evening they were there, they were only running the 1/8, so that's what we did. We were just glad we had a place to run!

This year, though, the racing will be done at Gateway Intl. Raceway, so we won't have to convert ETs from 1/8 to 1/4! It should be a lot of fun, and we are going to try and use some of the track time to make sure our Camaro is set up for the PSMCDR. I guess we will see if we know anything about rebuilding an engine or not...

[COPO]

For those who missed the first showing the "Supercars" episode will be on Speedvision at 8 pm (est) this Thur. the 26th.