Ok, Ted. Crooked tests. It was all rigged to put the W31 so far down the list, eh?
Sure sounds like the Dems strategy in political debates. When faced with damning data, attack the source. Seems to work for them, so, good luck.
SRH
I'm really glad you put it like that Stan, because it got me thinking about a nice guy I met at a Pure Stock race event I attended back in the early 2000s, where I was introduced to a guy named Casey Marks. Who, was running his 1970 W31 Cutlass in the event.
Mr. Marks had his W31 running well into the 13:40s, at the time Stan. This would have been maybe 2002, I think, and, if you google the name and W31, you will find a treasure trove of the events he was running at, back in that era. Mr. Marks sold the car, but, apparently, several years ago, bought the old girl back, and still participates in FS(factory stock) and Pure Stock events.
Great news, Stan-Casey is running well into the 13:30s with his old, small block Olds powered ride, which, using your (fradulent, I know, but, whatever) list of times from back in the day, puts him in front of all but one car on that same list.
So, it was good of you to put up that list, since it gives us an idea of how many different kinds of cars get to look at the taillights of Mr. Marks W31.
Google it, Stan. It'll save me the trouble.
As to my discounting YOUR experience, honestly, I had no idea you were that old, and actually knew somone who had a car at the strip back in the era when they were new. Sorry. Did you race? If you knew someone who owned a 1970 LS6 Chevelle, good on you-I was racing in the 1980s, and factories didn't build fast cars when I was there. I had a 1979 Camaro with an old 1970 LT1 out of a Corvette, that I saved from the junkyard, and rebuilt, mated to a Borg Warner Super T10, and it was not really fast, but, consistant as a clock, and I won some money and trophies bracket racing. I never saw anything like what you described running on a strip in the era when I was doing that, and believe people were beginning to figure out the cars might be worth something, someday, or, most of them were burned up, or, a little of both. I did see a single Hemi powered car in my years doing that, but, it was the hydraulic lifter version (1971?) and, was not running well that day-the guy who owned it told me that was the case, more often than not.
Best,
Ted
