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01-03-2021, 10:09 AM | #11 |
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1971, Dover Drag Strip, 1969 Plymouth Road Runner, 383 four speed.
I still have the time slip somewhere in my attic, but after 50 years I don't recall the results of that day. I do remember my leg shaking so hard I could barely find the clutch pedal! |
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01-03-2021, 10:27 AM | #12 |
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1969 Z-28. I drove it to high school. (1972) My 2 years of savings from my paper route netted me the 1600 dollars needed to purchase this three year old sports car . WOW, how times have changed !
Took the 302 out and installed a new 427/425 target GM replacement motor. Before installing changed cam to the 2nd design L-88 and springs. Hayes aluminum flywheel, 4.88 Zoom gears, cable drive Moroso tack and shutoff, Hooker headers, Thrush mufflers, Holley 800 double pumper. Ran 11.88 at 116. I was terrified to take it down the track the first pass so my brother John gladly obliged. Brought it home on a flatbed as all 12 bolts holding the ring gear sheared . I had borrowed a set of 10 inch white dot #8 Firestones and those bolts did not like them .. LOL
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01-03-2021, 10:49 AM | #13 |
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Looks like Boburka going through the drive thru in the back ground! LOL
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1968 I believe, Took my daily driver, Maroon, black vinyl top 66 Chevelle Malibu 283 3-speed on the floor to Island Dragway for my very first trip down the 1/4 mile. Nervous as heck, popped the clutch and did a one-legger all the way down. Things sure have changed!
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1966 - took my red '63 Chevy Super Sport, 283 2bbl 3 Speed on the floor to Porter (old, sadly now closed, drag strip north of Houston). They teched me in O/S. Don't remember what it ran, but it was slow.
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First pass August 1974, in my $50.00 57 Ford Sedan Delivery. Extremely tired 272 Y block, 3 speed manual with factory 3.89 gears. I added a 4 barrel intake and carb from a 57 Mercury that I found parked in the woods. Ran a blistering 17.2 at 78 MPH, at Mission Raceway. The first "real" car was my 70 Mustang Sportsroof (non Mach 1 fastback) that I bought in 1976 for $2100. 351Cleveland 4 barrel, FMX 3 speed automatic with 3.25 open rearend. Bone stock ran 14.72 @ 94.5 MPH, just a set of $79.00 Cyclone headers hooked to the factory mufflers and pipes went 14.22@99.44 MPH. The car was totalled in 1978, but still have the time slips!
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1974 New England Dragway. 1971 6 cyl Nova that I bought off my brother. It ran 18s. I beat a 318 Fury for class. I was hooked. Eventually built the car into a U/SA.
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1979, right after I got my driver's license, right after my 16th birthday. 1964 Chevy Nova SS with the stock 2-barrel 283, floor-shift 'glide, and open 3.08 10-bolt. It got 28 mpg on the highway, and ran 10 flat on the eighth at Portland International Raceway on Wednesday nights and mid-15s on the quarter at Woodburn Dragstrip on Sunday mornings, on a pair of G70-14 sticky recaps.
The first car I ever made money with, was a '71 Pinto coupe (the one with the separate trunk, not the hatchback). It had the stock 1.6 and a 4-speed, and had been repainted the color of a green crayon. I raced it one season, in 1981. It ran surprisingly consistent 21-flat ETs, and more than one opponent threw a temper-tantrum after losing to it. Last edited by 6130; 01-03-2021 at 12:22 PM. |
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Went Onondaga Dragway with my first car a 55 Dodge Coronet. Won a trophy, only car in my class, went a blazing 19.45 don't remember how fast. They had me hooked every since. I remember E J Potter and Dick LaHaie were racing there too.
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