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Why a FED or Nostalgia racing

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dreracecar:
I got into this nostalgia/Front engine dragster scene in 1990 because I missed it in the begining and when I could get into Drag racing the Rear motors took over. From the early days as a kid buying magazines to fantasize of what it would be like was my only choice.

HOWEVER----
  Right now the shine has been taken off the apple. For the most part the swing has turned from the glory days of Form over Function to newstalgia front engine dragsters. We have people building oil derrects-narrow front track A-arm front ends, bodies built with a sheet metal brake, billet this and that, computers/data recorders and all these go fast engine componants and wild fuel systems-- Please someone tell me why it is nessasary to have a Big & Ugly mounted to a set back high helix 10/71 and a 44amp MSD to run 7 flat???? Why do dragsters need 30" of overhang with cannards??? . This is what happens when the Racer mentality overuns the vintage aspect-- all for a couple bux and  $25 trophy. A lot of people are racing front engine dragsters, and thats great--Enjoy, but please dont call it a vintage/nostalgia dragster if you cant show me a picture of the way yours is built in a 60's car magazine. and dont say yours was built to be safer then the old cars--- BS, Kidney bars and an extra roll bar hoop on my car is the only visable difference as far as the chassie goes and is legal to 6.00

JeffV8:
I do not like the looks of the new nostalga dragsters. Get rid of electronics in ALL the classes in dragracing and you will see dragracing increase again

masracingtd1167:
Bruce I think the racer mentality has been around since the beginning of this sport ! The guy's who hopped up there flat head Fords were the high tech racers of the fifty's . I don't think it is any different today ! I really admire those early racers because they set the pace for future racers to never settle and always look for ways to go quicker ! I guess you could say that my car is one of those oil derrick's with a arms and a 6 point cage but that's the way I wanted it and I didn't build it to be a vintage car ! I really like the cars from the sixty's some of the body work and paint were works of art I guess that is something we lost ! 

dreracecar:
We did not "LOSE" anything, racers took the easy road for a percieved edge over another racer. Tony Nancy in the mid sixtys had a rear motor dragster with a wing on the back, so for that reason I should be able to build a oil derrick R/E dragsters with a wing and call it vintage nostalgia

wideopen231:
Hey love the  60's cars. IMO advancing the design is just that. I think looking for ways to make it quciker and/or better is keeping with the inovative side of the sport. The guys who built the 60's style cars where always looking to go faster and make the cars better. That is exactly what brought some of the new designs to a classic piece.
  I knew going in to my build that most purest would not be crazy about some of my design. The so called high chair is one part that I have gotten negative comments on from the start. IMO its helpful in the main intent of my car bracket racing.Got to see my front and other guys front at stripe for top end driving. The 30 front nose piece I see as a have to if you run headsup,other wise you are giving up et that others are not.

  As far as I am concerned any car built for dragracing is a bennifit to the sport. If it happens to be frontengine dragster requardless of design thats even better.

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