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Which do you like to see live more NHRA or NASCAR?

By NHRA, I mean funny car and top fuel. I like them both, but personally I like NHRA better live. When two cars with a combined 15000 horsepower go by you the percussion is unbelievable. When you watch them at night, the nitro flames are awesome. Also, those drivers probably do more driving in the 1/4 mile than most NASCAR drivers do in 10 laps! I also love the smells of the burning rubber and nitro methane. You don’t get as much of it at a NASCAR race.

Compared to TV NHRA is definitely a must in person. NASCAR on TV actually has advantages to being there in person, especially at tracks like Daytona, Indy etc…, the big ones where you can’t see the whole track.

But NHRA isn’t ever done justice on TV. It’s a whole different world in person and the noise. The beautiful rumbling in your gut noise.

The glory days of Fireball Roberts, Smokey Yunick and cargo from around the stock car tracks in the south and Arnie Beswick farmers pulling up the drag strips across the country have gone … Burt Reynolds and the Firebirds happy with us on the big screen. Engines Government turned the life of the automaker, once proud on April 27 2009. Once the number three in sales, Pontiac had slipped into the bottom in recent years, a victim of the excesses union address inept corporate, insurance rules and government regulation.

History of Pontiac is one of the entire U.S. auto industry. Union contracts that were almost reasonably practicable, when the industry was living high on the hog and make as much money that built impressive buildings as monuments to themselves seems strangely out of place when profitable sales lost to foreign competitors. The adversarial relationship that seemed appropriate when the market had three major U.S. all it remains, to the detriment of all concerned.

Times change, so do market conditions. U.S. manufacturers faced foreign competition in the labor and management understand the need to work together to produce a product that could penetrate the U.S. market. Of somehow this spirit of cooperation never caught on in the U.S., even in Pontiac, where there was once the pride of achievement. The unions kept asking for more and more and greed and lack of determination by the companies that avoids the loss of production from a strike than the destruction of long-term contracts overvalued.

Many other factors played in the downfall of the auto industry, no less important were government regulations in the name of security, efficiency fuel and the other, simply because they could. Some of us remember the fools œdouble € â € Nickela speed limits imposed by our œbenefactorsâ € â € in Washington until sanity returned. What we saw here and around the industry were companies that pay attention their operations, but not the market or environment they lived in.

In the 60s he was considering attending General Motors Institute … an engineering school well with the clear emphasis in the automotive industry. While checking this I had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of the Pontiac Division. The place was adorned with all kinds of signs touting the number three in sales and institutional pride rarely seen in the business world. The company took a more expensive product and was head to head with lower prices of Ford and Chevrolet. These were the days of Roberts and Beswick victorious. The management at that time had a dull, heavy, but reliable and became one of the most desirable cars of the moment.

They worked on the concept that you can sell a car for young to old, but could not selling an old car to a young … and it worked. Were some of the meanest machines on the street for their time and supported the efforts to win in NASCAR, NHRA, USAC, and who knows how many other forms of competition. For my part, I had a '60 Tri-Power Ventura and, later, a 64 GTO. Both were fun driving and a little prettier than the lowest priced of his cousins from Chevrolet.

This did not last long, however, as the shortage of fuel, insurance rates and government regulations and end the "no holds barred competition between car companies … and began the long, downward spiral of indistinguishable lumps econobox so popular today.

The point is that, for the most part, the thrill of œnew € â € has been beaten face of our society. Few are really exciting. They have become so expensive that without a rich daddy, young people can not afford anything remotely interesting. Foreign manufacturers, reading the market better than their counterparts American carts brought annoying children œtunersâ € â € called in this environment. Once again, outdid the big three. Parking lots that once filled the Chevy, Ford and Pontiac are houses for Honda, Mazda and Hyundai. In Chester A. Riley would say, â € œWhat one revoltin development this is! Â €

So an American icon is going over the scene. It is a sad day. However, progressive ideologues within the periphery this is a good thing. The old must be destroyed to make room for the new government central planning Motors car that looks like everyone else and is certainly less what we're used to, but most of them believe that we deserve. For those familiar with the development of the first Volkswagen is, to quote a great American philosopher, â € vu all again. œdeja €

In honor of the occasion, maybe we should dig a copy of â € € œLittle GTOâ by Ronnie and the Daytona â € "and play a couple of times.

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Larry Miller

After far too many years of working in IT and involvement in political activity, Larry Miller now designs business and political websites at www.simplewebs.biz and recently began the web site and blog www.PoliticalChristian.org as a resource for Christians in the public arena.

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