Dis is My Ride!!!

Hey, Ram, good stuff about your first race. It is interesting that you subconsciously wanted a new focus on life and it turned out to be racing (you considered various types of bike racing before deciding on drag racing). Did you ever run into the "snakeskin cowboys" again down the road?

Pat, I also just read the article about Jake. What an unsung hero in the racing world. It seems he had a natural ability to "feel" what an engine needed to run better. How simple - changing spark plug heat range instead of re-jetting. It must have worked because S&M were at the top of the heap for years. NHRA really turned me off drag racing in the '70s when they factored the Hemis out of Pro Stock. Same as NASCAR (still working hard to lose me...I think the COT was the last straw).