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 
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