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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