Herbert loses Snap-On Sponsorship

[hollowayshotrods]

This is how bad it is getting men, Doug Herbert has been told by Snap-On Tools that they will no longer sponsor the team. The have been Dougs' sponsor since 1992. I hope he picks one up soon! :shock:

[Harbone]

Doug has been through to much this year. 16 years with Snap-On as a sponsor then just dropped?!?! That stinks, I hope he picks ups another sponsor before the beginning of the season. He is always great in the pits and takes the time to converse with his fans. Plus his work with BRAKES since his sons passed away in a car crash has been a great learning tool for kids all over the United States. I wish him and his crew the best of luck in aquiring a new sponsor.

Chris

[cuda66]

Snap-Off
I'll inform my Snap-On Driver that he can Snap-Off and close my account, that's total BS, are they going to lower the price of their tools now?

Snap-On Snap-Off thats Icredible!

[mikeaton]

well remember when ace mcullough lost the mcdonalds sponsorship due to "age demograhics". last year i finally ate at mcdonalds.if we as fans and consumers of products ie.. mcdonalds,snap on tools etc... dont tell the vendors how we feel they will continue to do these things. you think nascar fans would take this sitting down? i for one buy mac tools along with snap on, guess who will get more buisness after this! tell your snap on dealer to write letters telling the "uppers" that what is happening for the dropped sponsorship. but dont take it out on the dealer themselfs they are just trying to make a living like we are.but they can relay the message for us!

[zipper06]

I'm probably going to piss off half of the people who has posted to this post. But i liked the old days, 25 or so yrs. ago. I can remember when Kenny was towing his funny car with a box truck and an inclosed trailer. Sherl and her girl friend was selling t-shirts out of the back of it, i have pics. some where with me and Sherl and her girl friend at Phx. Race way park. We took pics. one day and she brought them over to my pit the next day and collected the $25.00, that keep them going. I can remember bringing over to Jim Head a Tig welder so he/we could weld up his headers so he could keep running. That was racing, today i agree that the cars are running outstanding #'s and all have big sponsers. They change a $50,000.00 moter between rounds and break another, no problems. I would love to see it go back to those days but then i guess the teams with the most money would win like Shaumaker, Force, etc.
Sorry if i pissed anyone off, but i'm old and remember when money was not the major factor, but intellengence was a contributing factor.
About Nascar, i donot watch it unless there's nothing else on TV. Nascar has over shadowed Drag racing for many yrs. and since i don't care for Nascar, it doesn't bother me if thay lose their sponsers. Maybe all racing will divert back to the best tuners, racers i would love to see that.

Sorry if i pissed off a lot of people, this is just my opinion.

Zip/John allen

[outlaw256]

zip i agree with you.im not quite as old as you are, but i do remember when the big names were just a tad better off than the rest of us.i know the #s are out of sight now. cars doing 300 milies hr. thats great!. but i do miss the times when cars ran slower and so did the whole world.when a backyard builder really did have a chance. when the gasser was king. i guess thats wht i love the old time, ol school racing that is getting popular now.a guys are bring out retired gassers from the day or building them the way they did back then. dont get me wrong i think drag racing has come a long way, but id had rather watch 2 home built cars go after the prize than watch 2 corprate sponcered cars going at each other. people like force have put drag racing out there but the guy down the road is the one i like to watch

[hollowayshotrods]

I'm probably going to piss off half of the people who has posted to this post. But i liked the old days, 25 or so yrs. ago. I can remember when Kenny was towing his funny car with a box truck and an inclosed trailer. Sherl and her girl friend was selling t-shirts out of the back of it, i have pics. some where with me and Sherl and her girl friend at Phx. Race way park. We took pics. one day and she brought them over to my pit the next day and collected the $25.00, that keep them going. I can remember bringing over to Jim Head a Tig welder so he/we could weld up his headers so he could keep running. That was racing, today i agree that the cars are running outstanding #'s and all have big sponsers. They change a $50,000.00 moter between rounds and break another, no problems. I would love to see it go back to those days but then i guess the teams with the most money would win like Shaumaker, Force, etc.
Sorry if i pissed anyone off, but i'm old and remember when money was not the major factor, but intellengence was a contributing factor.
About Nascar, i donot watch it unless there's nothing else on TV. Nascar has over shadowed Drag racing for many yrs. and since i don't care for Nascar, it doesn't bother me if thay lose their sponsers. Maybe all racing will divert back to the best tuners, racers i would love to see that.

Sorry if i pissed off a lot of people, this is just my opinion.

Zip/John allen

Zip,
I doubt you pissed ANYBODY off with your post. If I had to take a vote, I would bet 90% would be on your side. I am not nearly as old as you (or outlaw256) and really do not remember much about the early years of dragracing. I have to agree with outlaw, the WHOLE world is too fast nowadays, simply because most folks are money driven robots. I think it would be great to get the computers out of racing, then let the best tuners and racers get back to work. I sometimes wish I was old enough to remember those days, my wife said I would fit right in the "old school" ways". I absolutely think it is crazy to give a race team millions of dollars, then make the backyard guy pay top dollar for his tools, somewhere back in time, priorities have changed dramatically. I do remember at least every street in out town had at least one racer, not anymore. I do miss the simpler days. :(
BTW, Nascar sucks :!:

[signsbyesa]

4 quakerstate lube shops have closed here in tx,
this has an affect on sponsors in the NHRA & IHRA, the exposure
is so limited compared to the NASCAR racing which has
even the slowest car with continued sponsor exposure even when
they lose. what part does GM, FORD, going to have in racing?
i remember seeing conard colita pulling his trailer and all his
tools in truck bed, john force driving for coke-a-cola, what
happened to all the soda sponsors? where is the coke or pepsi
funny car? well i know that powerade is by coke, but all the big
sponsors are in NASCAR and i think if they had to cut sponsorship
it would start in drag racing, i don't remember garltis having a
"personal chef", yea, the old days were grand 8)

[fla1976]

I am old enough to remember the gassers and the beginning of the factory funny cars. Those were the great days of racing. We thought the eight second runs were the ultimate. They would advertise them as "Eight Second Hand Grenades". But, those days are gone as computer controlled cars are now the norm. As for NASCAR, I used to like to watch them , but that was when they were real cars. I was working as a mechanic at a Plymouth / Chrysler Dealer in 1970 when the Superbird was released. Roger McClusky had his Superbird there to prep it for the race at Phoenix International Raceway. Went to the race and enjoyed it. McCluskey lost to A.J. Foyt in a Talladega. The cars were factory cars with the biggest engines the factories had. Hemis and Semi-Hemis. Great racing. The racers and their crews were more accessible in those days. Guess we have to carry on.

[mikeaton]

in a interview on espn2 snake said it best"we did this to ourselfs" meaning the racer with the big sponsors have to have billet everything titanium nuts and bolts,spare spare spares, does anyone besides me wonder why pro stock motor cycles need a 18 wheeler like the top fuel and others have?

[zipper06]

Mike you're one of us little guys who just hopes to go the track and maybe win back the entry fee and travel expense. i donot think we'll see drag racing as it once was except at the smaller tracks. I just got word that Red River in Shrevesport was closing. The guy that owns it is not going to release it to the current lease holder and says he himself is too busy to run it himself. He has more money than god and now the track is for sale. Twin Cities track is for sale here in Monroe La., I also heard that Huntsville track is now changing managements. The only track that i know of that's really happening is holly Springs up in Ms. one of the best tracks around 1/8mile of concrete and smooth as a baby's butt and pays weekly guarenteed payout. Even Memphis is not racing a full schedule, only the big events.
Sorry if i sound fusterated, but it's no longer racing as i used to enjoy it.

Zip.

[lively]

HEY-----BIG MONEY MEANS BIG STUPID PEOPLE START RUINING THINGS :oops: :oops:
I WILL STILL HONOR THE GRASSROOTS TRACKS AND GO THERE

LIVELY

[kwkracing]

I agree! If i can do it with my own hard earned money or build it myself im not participating. Everyone always ask me why i dont have sponsors on my dragster... i laugh and dont even respond to that question... LOL!!!

Just somethin funny, when i started drag racing i didnt even have a shop to work in at the time, i had to pull the 355 out of my car, put it into a wheel borrow and truck it to the back door of the house so i could fix it.

[mikeaton]

one of the reasons we built a funny car was 1 to be different, 2 to be "paid" to race. the tracks we have here and were lucky to have several within 100 miles, love to have something"different". granted we dont get rich but at least we get real close to breaking even at the end of the day and heck its even fun.yea i spent a ton of money to get here but after several years of running brackets going 5,6, even 7 rounds just to get into the money it was getting to a point that it wasnt fun anymore! so i built a funny car. now we pull into the track make a few[3] passes collect more money than the super pro or what ever the class may be winner does and we go home. point is we all have different ways and means to build the car we take to the track, i for one like my car[now a altered] and we now are having fun and we get paid as well!!! but we are one of the lucky ones and yes we do have sponsors but their money did not build this car mine did!