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I'm curious if any of the NJ promoters actually inquired about a WoO race in the early days? I don't recall any talk about it until the aforementioned fake WoO race in 1983. I'll be honest, I heard all stories why the cars wouldn't pass NJ inspection, but not being into sprints until 1984, I never really noticed. I can't imagine there was much if anything safety wise keeping them away.

Somebody mentioned tubing thickness being a concern, but I don't recall there being a rule about that. I know one URC car that got destroyed (Allen chassis), the owner asked me to borrow a dial caliper to measure a broken piece of tubing in the front clip, it was .050" thick. So it wasn't just WoO cars that were lightweight.

Also, my second sprint, purchased from a former Lincoln champion, had the aluminum seat attached with 6 Dzus buttons, we replaced with bolts.

In 1985, our first trip to Bridgeport, NJ inspectors told us we had to run our rubber fuel lines outside the cockpit (injector pump runs off rear of cam) and cover the inside lines with steel braided sheathing. We felt it was more dangerous outside than inside, but we couldn't race until we changed it, 2 weeks before at Flemington, inspectors never looked at it.

The rear firewall issue I think was a 90s thing, not before 1987 when we stopped. It actually made no sense, seeing how the firewall wouldn't have kept fire or fuel out of the cockpit. 

WoO ran Flemington once in 1989, Wolfgang won, twice in 1990, Kinser and Swindell each won. Quite a few WoO races between Bridgeport and New Egypt. None at East Windsor.