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Hey Dino, Still going through my old pics and junk…..What a blast down memory lane……I found one of the C.I.R. News weekly handouts written by Tony Saraceni from Aug. 1980 which I will be sending along with the pics….Not tons of Dover shots in my collection but some…I gave a bunch to Smokey and Grover last year……..Interesting in the C.I.R. flyer I went runner up that day in a bracket class (Super Pro) and I remember it well. My race car needed some ringing an some valve touchup and the motor was on the floor in the shop.. I decided to put a single 4 barrel on it and stick the motor in my street car (a 69 Chevelle with a Powerglide) and give it a blast at the local street scene for a night…Well it ran great and I left the motor in the car and that weekend brought it to CIR and did some bracket racing.. That street car ran 10:60’s all day long (on borrowed 9″ tires from Lee Valentine) and made it to the finals………………………….Stuff on the way soon……Don…