No delusions at all sir, as i say i have been an avid and active street racer since July 5, 1963 as well as participating at drag strips all over the mid west of the country, Ill, Wis,Mo,TX,TN,AR,IN,MS,OH,KY, and Pennsylvania in and around Philidelphia where i LIVE for MOST of 1968 before joining the military and going to Viet Nam.
So, I'M talking facts that i KNOW from actual experience while ur tryin to start some beligerance talkin smack about thing u have but heard or read about as if its something that u actually KNOW from some experience. Like as not i was doin this with my nose deep in it when ur parent werte poopin themselves if not bed wetting, in MY OWN RIDES that I BOUGHT, Wrenched and DROVE.
As i say, im not condoning street racing, nor am i trying to encourage ay new entrants, we have quite a few whom i'de prefer keep their racing at the track if they race at all cause i see them unsafe and inexperienced at it no matter where they do it, YOU for instance. Street Racing, with good reason is ILLEGAL, but the fact that all tracks as well as the sponsors who sponsor said tracks and many of the rides and teams who participate therte owe the greatest of their revenue, indeed nearly ALL of same to those folk who race the street far more than they do the track if they even race at all. Auto makers make the bulk of their profits on sellin hgh perf cars to everyday folk to drive on the street, most of whom never even take the car to a track to b a spectator let alone race it, and they damn sure sell damn few hgh perf cars to race teams, matter of fact most race teams buy a plain jane and clonbe it into a hgh perf offering that is in NO WAY SIMULAR to the actual car u may see on the street other than outward appearance, so for damn sure they ain't sellin many hgh perf offerings to any RACERS. So then who the hell u expect all these folk are expending all this money to advertise and sell to ? Right, the STREET ENTHUSIAST and as i say they make BILLIONS each year off of them, and they never even break even on what they spend at the tracks in any other way than sales resultant from advertisement, in fact that is the budget from which they take what they spend, their advertisement budget.
I know this not only by way of direct participation in the STREET ENTHUSIAST as well as the track scene, but also by way of having a Bachelor Degree in Business Management/Adminstration, from Ouchita Baptist College in Arkadelphia, but also a Mechanical Engineering Degree in Automotive Applications, from Kettering University here in Flint(formerly GMI or General Motors Institute) which was founded/fellowed here by Charles Kettering during his tenure as CEO of Buick Motor Division which was also founded here and is yet the parent and founding division of General Motors itself. GM has Corporate Offices and Headquarter in Both Detroit and New Jersey but the home and Birth place of GM, the UAW and 2 of the only 3 divisions of GM that GM as GM actually created, Chevrolet which was created to deliver for GM an entry level CAR, while GMC later divided out of same was created to produce ALL truck, Bus, and van chasis vehicles which is both their mantras to this very day. no matter what name plate u may see on the latters of those, its produced by GMC and ONLY GMC, predominanly here in Flint which is where the largest GMC operations yet are and always have been. The strike following the division of Chevrolet into Chevrolet and GMC with GMC going to Corporate control while Chevrolet remained under BUICK control yet to this day,and it was created in existing Buick facilities with predominantly existing Buick and Oldsmobile workers; Louis Chevrolet and his brother who were 1st working for FORD while RACING Buicks were pretty much the only NEW HIRES used in the creation of either division. The sit down strike of 1939 here in Flint was over the loss of all seniority of those workers transfered to Corporate from Buick with GMC piled atop the loss of all seniority by former Buick and Olds divsion workers who were assigned to Chevrolet, GM claimed that one could not have any seniority in a here to fore non existant division, while the workers were of the mind that seniority anywhere in GM as a whole should be counted toward retirement. At the time, few auto workers were in ANY union, those who were were seamsters and such from GM's upholstery shops in fisher body who were in the AFL-CIO and those Teamsters who brought in parts and supplies and production between diff facilities and suppliers who were in the TEAMSTERS. this left the hourly workers in various plants at GM, Ford and Chrysler w/o a union and thus no solidarity between them and those auto workers who were in a Union, neither of whom were willing to represent those strikers from Chevrolet and GMC, thus the Auto Workers created their OWN Union, the UAW and by that won the strike despite the best efforts of GM, Ford, and Chryler who hired Pinkerton strike breakers as well as local and state goverment and law enforcement. 1 county sheriff, 1 city policman, 2 pinkerton strike breakers, and 50 strikers were KILLED in the creation of the UAW during the 1939 sit down strike here.
BTW.. Walter P. Chrysler got his start 1st as an Engineer and finally as CEO at Buick Motor Division, hired by GM founder William C. Durant Jr. after HE left the CEO ship of Buick to head GM once he incorporated same based in BUICK and squeezed out the owners;David Dunbar Buick, Charles Whitting and William Fisher; of Buick with proceeds from the 1st stock offering. With backing from The Duponts;who are also from here in Flint having built their 1st Paint facility here on which site yet stands Dupont Paint facilities; Billy Sr. and millionaire Philanthrapist Charles Stewart Mott, Billy Jr. bought or provied a full 80 per cent of the 1st stock issue from the incorporation of Buick into GM with Oldsmobile, his 2cnd aquisition as the dedicated R and D division. This is why GM can NEVER drop Buick, its the parent and founding company under which the corporation was and IS incorporated, as for Oldsmobile, it too can never b deleted, tho it can and has undergone both refocus and name change. Cadillac and Lassalle were independant sister companies, Cadillac making top line while Lassalle built entry level with a touch of class. Billy Durant AQUIRED both, making Lassalle a Buick Model, while making Cadillac a Seperate Line al together with Buick producing Body, chasis, suspension, drive axle and final assembly and paint, while Oldsmobile produced the engine and thru its Hydramatic division the transmission for both Buick AND Oldsmobile as well. Hydramatic became GM's 2cnd division to go from divisional to corporate control in fact. The name change and refocus of Oldsmobile was to Saturn, now that GM plans to stop making Saturn the Division will become JUST Cadillac, but it will still b based in and what its always been, Oldsmobile.
I interject all this about my history and education so as to make abundantly clear that i actually KNOW what im talkin about when it comes to ANYTHING concerning domestic automotive production and competition, ESPECIALLY GM and Drag Racing. Since my 1st drag race, which was a STREET RACE, for money, i have devoted the best of 46 years to this, in terms of hands on and driving and wrenching as well as educational experience, including the BUSINESS side of it. 46 years is undoubtably longer than most of the participants of this thread have been breathing, let alone buying, building or wrenching and racing anything anywhere. Even as a Street Racer i have been to and raced at more tracks than most of you have yet to even go to as a spectatotor. Of those of you who here have RACE, as in only raced at the track cars, i have a couple of STREET and STRIP raced cars which aren't but could b dailey drivers since they have full interiors, appointments, full exhaust complete with tail pipes and run as well as race on pmp gas(92-94 octane)after being driven to and then from the race site, able to exceed rather than just maintain the posted speed limit anywhere in the nation for as long as i supply them with fuel to and from said site n trailer ur ride with the quickness when i get there, on the street or at the track.
In effect, those of u here trying to match wits with me and make me out not to know what im talking about in concerns of this particular topic only actually show ME how ignorant and inexperienced YOU actually are. You should stop while ur not too far behind cause in a battle of wit about much of anything about life at all with me, ur obviously totally unarmed.
However,don't take my word for it, keep being a little hater, folk like me Love haters, every time i find i have one, i try to turn that into at least 3, the more i have the better i must b doin and the more real i must b keeping it.