Thought you would like this...not just a Cacklecar....go to right and check out my other You Tubes...Frank Kunkel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG5dCoZ521Y&feature=channel_page
I was there and saw that first hand. In my ignorance, I always wondered if that was a result of inexperience or do those things just sometimes happen no matter who's driving? Maybe it's both.
Thanks for posting that, I was at the end of the pits working on the Rebel Reaper when that rail got towed by, I always wondered what happend to it!
I was standing in the shade of left side blechers when that happened. The guy next to me asked if I thought that was supposed to happen? Dumb shit....
More like tuning. It didn't leave so the driver had to pedal it. When he did the frame bounce and the bog made it wheelstand rather than get up on the tires. Up that high and on one wheel he couldn't bring it down easy. Not the driver's fault. When a fuel car bogs it usually wheelstands. Counterintuitive but true. Replace the front wheels and go again, lean on it harder.
Not trying to honk my own horn, just answering the "Is that driver error?" post. Ive made abizzilion laps in a fuel car. Looked to me like he was having a hard time getting lined up in the groove (after getting stuck between forward and reverse on the burnout.) Then he lurched forward and lit both lights at the same time. Then he double pedaled the thing (watch the butterflies, nowhere near wide open throttle @ the initial hit) , which you NEVER do on the starting line. Dve
The biggest problem was: That the car was designed to light the tires (direct drive and no slipper clutch). It can't handle that much traction right up front, it has to light the tires first. That is the main reason NHRA does not allow early front motored cars to make passes. They cannot handle todays traction tracks.
Hello Frank, wasnt this this the same race that Tommy Ivo rear ended dig daddy during the cracklefest? Got any videos of that ? Johnny Rotten
Thanks for that answer. I feel a little smarter now. I would much rather have seen those old tires lit up like the old days(like anybody else here). Oh well. "Safety first". Beep, I don't like passing a chance to thank a vet for their service, so after reading your bio.....Thank you for your service!
Sy had a slipper clutch in that car when he sold it....doubtful that the new owners in the video installed differently, but who knows...remember that slipper style clutches were being built by Ed Pink as early as late 67, my grandparents had the second or third one built in their fueler...that engine sure sounded wetted out and like crap on the line i remember i was on the backside of the pit side stands....oh well.... T. Hilton
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