Quote Originally Posted by Dgas56
EXACTLY! - right to being priced out of stock cars and back to Hotrods, We have a hobby six class here that is very reasonable to race but by the time it came along I was too OLD - and broken up from motorcycles
You don't have to be a millionaire to run a bracket car, even out here in the sticks we have non-electronic classes. Everything comes down to being consistent and great reaction times. Our local non-electronic class bracket winner last year probably doesn't have 10K in his car and won all 5 non electronic events last summer.... Talked to him last week, his major work for the winter will be a new set of valve springs, freshen the engine, and he's ready..... Even won a couple of the events that were open to the delay box cars, and (I think) 4 of the Saturday night Gambler's races.... Drag racing has changed, granted, especially in the higher classes. But there is still a place and a class for everybody to race.. The Tree does not know the difference between a $60,000 car and a $6,000 car.

The one thing about the technology and the big bucks cars, is that eventually a lot of it filters down to street machines and Hot Rods.... Drag Racing is still alive and doing fine around here. In our little town of 5,000 people there are 5 new cars being built this winter, and none of these guys are millionaires......