Roy Badie's worst nightmare

[dl7265]

A Buick ! Lasseter's 'Ol Blue, Enjoy

DL

[Postsedan]

Don,

I love this picture, one of my favorite pics.....love the hood pins on the Buick! Thanks for posting.

Dan

[dl7265]

Np Dan,
larger file then I previously had. Here's one in color. I know you hate looking at Gulfstream cars <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif
DL

[Tracker1]

Ah yes, the &quot;brought a knife to a gunfight&quot; MCR battle. Roy got had.

[mockingbird812]

What is motivating each car?

[dl7265]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What is motivating each car? </div></div>
Hemi versus stage one. Roy threw down the challenge And got dealt with. Ha

DL

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I remember this, it was classic - something about '... runs like it's tied to a tree....' stuff. <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

[Lynn]

From the horse's mouth.


It'll Never Die
A few corrections are in order regarding your Hemi versus Buick article in the Feb. '07 issue. First of all, I'm just an average enthusiast and definitely not a &quot;seasoned NHRA Stock Eliminator veteran&quot; as you reported. I've never raced in any NHRA-sanctioned event. I don't even own a car trailer, and I never have. So wherever my cars go, they are driven. In the Dec. '84 race that I had with Roy Badie's '70 Hemi GTX four-speed, he is the one who trailered his car to Gainesville Raceway. I drove my '70 Buick GS Stage 1 260 miles round-trip. Both cars had the same mild modifications, as you reported, and neither was purpose-built for that particular race. They were both stock-long-block street cars with headers and very mild cams.

I didn't even know about the challenge that Badie had made (where he stated the &quot;the Buick GS runs like it's tied to a tree&quot;) until one week before the race when I received a phone call about the challenge from then-editor of Muscle Car Review, Donald Farr. That race was entirely a last-minute affair for me. Its relevance to the general enthusiast was based on the fact that both cars were true cars as you would find at a car show or cruising on the street. As an aside, after I raced Roy Badie, I also raced and beat a '70 Hemicuda that showed up with Roy. This was recorded on a video camera but was never reported in the pages of Muscle Car Review.

Lastly, round three of Hemi versus Buick happened back in July 1993 at Napierville Dragway outside Montreal, Canada. Again, the challengers were two basically stock-appearing, street-legal, stock-displacement cars: a '70 GSX Stage 1 and a '71 Hemicuda. Both had to &quot;idle like stock&quot; (a magazine rule). Muscle Car Review again sponsored the race. After losing the first round, the Hemicuda's owner refused to run the required two out of three races, so the magazine had no article. Nothing was ever published about this, but we have it all on video. So it can be easily argued that the Buick GS won two out of three of the magazine match races against the Hemi, for whatever it's worth!
Richard Lasseter
Valdosta, GA



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[Xplantdad]

Nice!!!

[Postsedan]

BUICKS are a Gentlemen`s Muscle Car, we gentleman do NOT WISH to brag.....however I will say this....Buicks are truly under estimated....as was clearly the case here.

Dan

[Postsedan]

Don,

Thanks for the colored photo <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

Dan

[Lynn]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Postsedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">BUICKS are a Gentlemen`s Muscle Car, we gentleman do NOT WISH to brag.....however I will say this....Buicks are truly under estimated....as was clearly the case here.

Dan

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I turned wrenches at a Buick dealership in the 70's. No one would believe me when I would tell them how well the GS models ran, especially the Stage 1.

[jannes_z-28]

HEMI guys don't like Buicks <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

At PSMCDR the HEMI's seem to have the advantage, time for the Buick guys to step it up a notch......

Not trying to start a war just would like to see the HEMI guys get some more competition.

Ryan

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

PSMCDR ='s Pro Stock Muscle Car Drag Race?

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">PSMCDR ='s Pro Stock Muscle Car Drag Race? </div></div>

No just like they arived on the carrier from the assembly plant....... <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

Didn't they all go 11's, 12's, or 13's off the showrom floor?

Ryan

[markinnaples]

PSMCDR = Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Races

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ryan1969Chevelle</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">PSMCDR ='s Pro Stock Muscle Car Drag Race? </div></div>

No just like they arived on the carrier from the assembly plant....... <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

Didn't they all go 11's, 12's, or 13's off the showrom floor?

Ryan </div></div>

I know, I'm just being a smarta$$. I was into it before I saw custom cams being used in the certified program by the non-Chevy guys. Then I dropped it like a rock in a pool.

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ryan1969Chevelle</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">PSMCDR ='s Pro Stock Muscle Car Drag Race? </div></div>

No just like they arived on the carrier from the assembly plant....... <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

Didn't they all go 11's, 12's, or 13's off the showrom floor?

Ryan </div></div>

I know, I'm just being a smarta$$. I was into it before I saw custom cams being used in the certified program by the non-Chevy guys. Then I dropped it like a rock in a pool. </div></div>

Ha, those darn &quot;non-Chevy&quot; guys..... <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif

Ryan

[Mr70]

Steve's LS-6 sure held it's own.

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