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02-04-2024, 10:32 AM | #1 |
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How did you get started in Drag Racing?
Here ya go Keith, your words. I guess that you should get credit for this thread!
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02-04-2024, 10:34 AM | #2 |
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Re: How did you get started in Drag Racing?
Thanks, I think this will be a good start to a new thread. It may also help to show what you did to select your “beginner class”
I started at 16 at my local track after watching a funny car show the weekend before. my father and I took my 19 second Mustang II down the quarter-mile for the first time in the trophy class. First NHRA class was super Street several years later
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02-04-2024, 10:59 AM | #4 |
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Re: How did you get started in Drag Racing?
My dad. I was brought up around racing. Spent almost every Sunday of my childhood in the 70's and 80's at NY National Speedway and West Hampton Dragway on Long Island. I learned to race in his bracket Camaro, and it grew from there.
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Re: How did you get started in Drag Racing?
My dad he was a tech guy at National Speedway and west Hampton Dragway when not racing
My firsts win was in a 1964 2 dr Malibu SW 6cylinder dial in of 2020seconds Dad slammed the brakes every time as I watch through the back window I was a passenger my dad was driving and we won street eliminations I was like 10 years old Hooked ever since
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Re: How did you get started in Drag Racing?
I left home when I turned eighteen. I purchased an old beat up 1969 GTO soon after that. I got in a bunch of trouble with that car....
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02-04-2024, 11:34 AM | #7 |
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Re: How did you get started in Drag Racing?
My older brother Joe took me to Dover Drag Strip (Wingdale NY) in 1966 and that gave me the bug. My first race in my Nova was in 1972. Here I am 71 and still doing it and loving it..
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Re: How did you get started in Drag Racing?
My dad raced and he took me with him the first time in 1966 to Atco Dragway and the rest is history.
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Re: How did you get started in Drag Racing?
Started in '91. A guy that worked for me from long Island talked me into to going to Island Dragway to see what my Chevelle could run and I was hooked ever since. Raced with and against James Perrone at Island starting back in the late 90s.
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Re: How did you get started in Drag Racing?
My older brother took me to the Super Stock Nationals at NY National Speedway when I was 15. I thought it was awesome and loved it. Made my first 1/4 mile pass at Island dragway when I was 17 in my 66 small block Chevelle. The rest as they say is history. LOL!
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