Thread: The good ol' days

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Originally Posted by Rrumbler

Great show, and we, most of us, anyhow, lived a part of it. I found it interesting to note how much quicker the runs got over the span of years on the video from early years to later; we were starting to get quick, then.

That's true! I remember when dragsters broke into the sevens and we're all thinking how can they get any faster!

Originally Posted by 34_40

That's true! I remember when dragsters broke into the sevens and we're all thinking how can they get any faster!

I think it was Spring 1967 when I was on my way back to college and heard on the radio that "Sneaky" Pete Robinson had broken the seven second barrier for the first time, running a high six second time that day (something like 6.97??). I was excited, and told one of the older engineering guys in the dorm what I had heard and he confidently told me, "Now that's impossible! I've done calculations that prove that a car cannot possibly run a 1/4 mile quicker than seven seconds!!" He was eating crow later that night.....