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Old February 19th 05, 04:08 AM
Mark C.
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Sigh, Welcome to my kill file.

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Mark C. Jack of all trades, master of none. (well, maybe a couple)

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> wrote in message
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> In the first free elections held since the conquest of AHPBBFM by the
> Coalition of the Willing to Swallow Anything, I was recently elected to
> serve that group as its very own White Tornado II, purveyor of
> unwelcome truths. No Sunnis are known to have voted, and the Kurds are
> muttering about secession, but I won fair and square -- unanimously,
> even -- and I intend to serve my full term.
>
> As my first official act, I reported the following timeslips of actual,
> reputedly bone stock muscle cars, running head to head in the September
> 2004 Pure Stock Drags. I thought some in this ng might like this post
> too. And besides, NoOp Patrick has dared me to post some race results
> involving the old iron in this group, just to see what happens. Readers
> of Mustang & Fords magazine have already seen these, because M&F
> reported this event in its March 2005 issue. Because it was M&F, they
> reported only on the matchups involving Fords.
>
> The winner of each of these best 2 out of 3 showdowns appears in the
> first column.
>
> '70 SS 396 Chevelle vs. '71 Mach 1 429 SCJ
> 14.95 @ 92.83 vs. 14.952 @ 92.83
> 14.92 @ 92.61 vs. 15.010 @ 93.08
>
> '72 Gran Torino Sport (351C-4v) vs. '72 Buick GSX (350-4v)
> 14.78 @ 97.87 vs. 14.71 @ 92.44
> 14.72 @ 98.00 vs. 14.73 @ 92.36 (Torino wins with a .575 RT)
> 14.63 @ 98.96 vs. 14.72 @ 92.83
>
> '69 455 ci Hurst/Olds vs. '70 Cyclone 429 CJ
> 14.38 @ 96.11 vs. 14.19 @ 98.14
> 14.27 @ 96.13 vs. 14.35 @ 98.31
> 14.53 @ 95.98 vs. 14.29 @ 97.50 (Merc redlights and loses the 2 of 3)
>
> '69 440 Cuda vs. '71 Mach 1 429 CJ
> 13.72 @ 99.21 vs. 14.14 @ 98.56
> 13.74 @ 99.16 vs. 14.05 @ 99.54 (Cuda loses on redlight)
> 13.82 @ 98.91 vs. 14.02 @ 100.07
>
> '64 427/425 Mercury Marauder vs. '72 455 Buick GSX
> 13.37 @ 106.21 vs. 13.80 @ 103.16
> 13.43 @ 106.96 vs. 13.48 @ 103.55 (Buick wins on .545 RT)
> 13.28 @ 107.50 vs. 13.49 @ 104.16
> (Check those traps. This Merc weighed 4,367 lbs! For that matter, the
> Buick weighed 4,208.)
>
> '70 455 Olds 442 vs. '69 Mach 1 428 CJ
> 12.69 @ 109.63 vs. 12.92 @ 108.12
> 12.71 @ 109.60 vs. 12.91 @ 108.39
> (This time it was a 3,915 lb. Olds vs. a 3,686 lb. CJ.)
>
> If you want to see the class rules, here they a
> http://www.geocities.com/psmcdr/rules.html . Also, ere is an Excel
> spread sheet with all the Sept '04 results:
> http://www.geocities.com/psmcdr/2004...pt_results.xls
> . If you start from the home page, http://www.geocities.com/psmcdr ,
> you can see the results from other years too.
>
> Out 180
> White Tornado 2
> AHOBBFM Troll Level 3
> Thundersnake 28
>



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