found a picture of my hero from 30 years ago

maybe APE JAY can give us some more details(hint,hint!!!! :laugh: )

The picture must of been era like 1976, by 79 they were running KZ1000 and GS1000 bodywork. Those were good times for sure in motorcycle drag racing. I don't remember Byron Hines riding at all til the late 80s when he ran the Yamaha FJ1200. Dragracing it was a relative disastrous move as expected with that junk. I remember when Terry Vance had a PS record of around 9.40 and lowered it to 9.00 around 1979 on the GS1000. Only Kawasaki or Suzuki were in the show back then for the most part. Remember Dave Shultz, rest in piece, riding the "72" H2 triple in PS? I met him and Paul Gast back in 1981 in Freemont, CA and we looked at that 8.8 second 2 stroker in person and the cylinder porting Paul did. How does this H2 run this good I asked them and they let me look at the porting. Well that did not help me.

there were still lots of z1 based prostock bikes among privateers in late 70s;)

I have known all of those guys for many years. Bob Carpenter and Byron Hines are both current APE customers. Just talked with Terry and Byron two weeks ago in Pomona.

Those old days were the haydays of pro stock. Bob had an automatic trans before anyone else, and he was killing them with less power. Byron knew Bobs motor sounded different on the gear changes, and it didn't take him long to figure out what it was.


Jay

any idea when he ran that bike?;)how abot getting bob to pop in with afew words of wisdom for his humble followers?:laugh:

You get that picture blown up and I sure would like a picture also. I was a big fan of Bob's when he was racing against V&H and R.C. Engineering.
This is Dave Schults's H2 pro-stocker in the #1 qualifier parade.

Bob Carpenter's H2 pro-stocker at Bowling Green. Went on to win the race.

weve got one of those photosmart all in one things here next to computer,just need to have daughter aka genius perate it for me!:laugh: pm me an adress and ill send you an 8x10,im sure Bob wont mind!

what amazes me is how the crappy road race tires that they used could actually get any kind of hook at all.

They had a fairly flat profile compared to an actual roadrace slick. Remember the ones that had the grooves cut into them so they would qualify in some classes as a street tire?

i chucked one of those old square profiled skinny slicks a few years back harder than concrete,if i would ofkept it i probably would of done something stupidlike try it on a bike!:laugh:

PLUMMEN wrote:

any idea when he ran that bike?;)how abot getting bob to pop in with afew words of wisdom for his humble followers?:laugh:

Fat chance. Bob doesn't even do e-mail.

Jay