On Mon Apr-30-2012 05:19, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RW> 28 Apr 12 09:01, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RW>> He was an Illinois farm boy for sure. 8^)   
      
    RN> So, did you let him win?   
      
    RW> Why would I? If he can beat me legitimately, then he could go on to   
    RW> race someone else on his own merit. If he can't, what makes him   
    RW> think he'll get any slack from the next guy? I went on to final   
    RW> round that day, only to lose to a gal driving a blue-printed 327   
    RW> Malibu.   
      
   Darn good answer!  I saw John Force on TV this afternoon hawking Castrol.  I   
   don't know how long ago the ad was made, but in it he states he's 62 and he   
   doesn't look any older than the last time I saw him race.   
      
    RN> I was sure I did, but I like to be thorough.  (-8  It was a lot of   
    RN> work and some guy pulled a prank on us by putting some extra bolts in   
    RN> the box we used (we stripped the engine down), so we scratched our   
    RN> heads for about two minutes before we figured it out.  I don't   
    RN> remember telling you this.  I know you remember me telling you about   
    RN> how we tried to cut corners by using shimmed, collapsed hydraulic   
    RN> lifters.  We never got them to work properly and I finally did the   
    RN> right thing by installing solids.   
      
    RW> You should have known better than to put used lifters on a new cam   
    RW> anyway.    
      
   Yeah.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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