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Old 10-30-2011, 01:50 AM
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"He should actually be the admin of the Day 2 section."


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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: [email protected]</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Dan,knowing that some of you guys were not around then or new to the hobby is why I was just pointing out that the way it was done in the old days is how Joel, Paul the Plowman and or most of us did things back then. Cheap, a somewhat jury rigged job BUT functional. Nothing trick and not alot of store bought stuff. Homemade and to the point. Don't think my statements need to be debated here. And YOU know personally that I would never knowingly steer any of you guys wrong. </div></div>

This^^^

Also, look at many magazine feature cars of the 1970's and for the most part they were ROUGH. Dirty undercarriages, dirty engine bays, rough workmanship.

Look at the early Motion photos. The workmanship was wanting in some cases. In one pic they painted the traction bars while on the car and white overspray was all over the rear end and springs but this is how things were done back then and were probably the same with other dealer built cars as well.
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exactly Dave. Everybody tries to make things way better than they were originally, me included. Look at the 1000 point restos on some of these cars out there. Got a little out of hand IMO. Don White schooled me more and more into the survivor, one repaint type cars without the full blown frame-off jobs and that to me is kinda where I want to be anymore. But again JMO. I believe Bill Mitchell did alot of work for Joel in the old days. Everything was functional and to the point but not car show worthy all the time. Car shows in those days were model T's and Model A's anyhow.
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Is a battery disconnect (kill switch), Day II correct?
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In our area, I don't remember any. We did put the batterys in the trunk
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I only remember seeing them at the track in the early 80's never before.
Should look to see when Moroso and other possible vendors offered them first for sale.
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I seem to remember NHRA didn't implement the cutoff switch rule right away when batteries were relocated. I think that rule came later. So in my eyes I'm thinking like Bentley and would tend to believe it's not technically a "day 2" mod. More like a late 70's mod out of necessity if you want to hit the track with a battery in the trunk.

I'd bet someone here remembers when that rule was implemented.

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I seem to remember NHRA didn't implement the cutoff switch rule right away when batteries were relocated. I think that rule came later. So in my eyes I'm thinking like Bentley and would tend to believe it's not technically a "day 2" mod. More like a late 70's mod out of necessity if you want to hit the track with a battery in the trunk.

I'd bet someone here remembers when that rule was implemented.
We ran our GTO up through 1974 without a battery cutoff switch (still doesn't have one).

The car was delivered new with the battery already mounted in the truck (the battery was sitting on a re-purposed production battery tray).

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