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1968 Avanti II (white, 4-speed)
It came through with a 327/300HP Corvette engine.

Ran in G/Stock in 1970.
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/avanti-cars-1.jpg

The front of the car looked as though it had large ice cubes wedged
into each side of the grille area.

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I thought you said OLDEST for a moment there. LOL. Anyway it was a 1953 Ford 4 door with a Flat head V8 and UGH a 2 speed automatic. Ran in 1963/64. 20.22 seconds in N/S. Almost gave me whip lash. Hey....cant afford much when in High School working part time at Sear's and mom and Dad wouldnt buy me a 409 Chev.

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Way back when, E/mp was for 6cyl's I had to race a guy in H/gas during the eliminator at Atco. I drove a slant six , 4sp Valiant with some mod's and a 4 bbl and he had a 1950 Studebaker with a Pontiac OHC 6cyl, 4 sp and Olds rear. It sounded like a 6cyl Ferrari through homehead headers.

Missed third......

JimR

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Jim Mantles V/SA AMC fish bowl Pacer wagon.

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I drove a super fast 4-door SIMCA (65 i think) painted rally green...
International travel-all 70 model......Used to drive it to Rockingham to spectate and baked potatoes on the intake manifold on the way to the track....;)

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Bill O`Connor`s Omni. One of the three times I ever chased in Stock. Any time I chase in this class,it`s odd!

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A saab convertible dialed a 19.26 against my 14 flat. He busted..........

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Bracket race at MIR around 2000 or so, a guy over there had a old alky funny car that he had put a blown small block chevy in and would run 7:20's. I ran him with my stocker, with 8 cars left and won...Ironically enough Frank Gugliotta (now running Pro Stock) gave me the left or right option (turn when leaving the gate), the next round with his Top Sportsman car and went on to win it. Now Dave Audet, who sometimes still races his 69 Camaro F/SA car was there in his toyota dialed a 19:22 against the old funny car earlier that day. That was the oddest run i've ever seen....

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in 1972 i raced my 63 chevy nova h/mp car against a 1962 i/gas volkswagen in raceway parks weekly modified eliminator

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A 3 cylinder 2 stroke Saab back in the late 60s at Miami Dragway. The guy was claiming the single carb HP but running the 3 carb Rally pak motor. My partner went down to his shop and got him BSing about his car & he told him about the dopes he was outrunning every week with the K/S 59 Biscayne. He was then introduced to the half owner/dope of said 59, never showed up again either.

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A diesel tractor during a Gamblers' race at Englishtown. Even in my street car I spotted him something like 7 seconds.

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I didn't race against him but when I was last at Sonoma I saw the "Karmann Ghetto", an old VW racing in Super stock--SS/VX. He was running tens. I think he set a record. My team has a '70 Chrysler T&C that races in Super Street. I actually looked it up as a stocker combo but fugetabowdit!

Chris Barnes
Wagons of Steel
Stock 6621

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Hey Lane, I'm still waiting for that day to happen once for me (being able to chase someone in Stock)! Who knows, if by Monday afternoon the remaining 6 (of 8) cars set for the Stock Automatic Combo runoff get like class entries (or if the ladder works out to pair us together), then I'll have a chance to race Bill so I can find out what it feels like to be on the other side of a tortoise and hare race...that'll be an oddity for sure!!! :)

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Bill Howells caravan

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Not a S/SS car, but I raced against a El Camino at Maple Grove that had a GMC 4V71 diesel in it!
had a hard time chaseing him thru the smoke.

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First race I ever won, I drove a '73 VW bus with an auto in the Slow ET class.

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I didn't race against it,,,,,,but I saw it with my own eyes,,,,,,in 1971.
A 1959 Fiat 600 versus a 1963 Willy's Jeep Station wagon.

Quite possibly, the slowest combined E.T's in drag racing history.
I think the track (Dover Drag Strip) made up the Z/Stock class for them.

http://www.carpictures.com/media/ima...21947376A.jpeg

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Back in the late 80's, there was a guy that raced an 86 Cadillac Cimmaron with a 4 speed in it. It was dark green, beige leather, sunroof, all the buttons.. That thing ran almost in the 13's and set several records and was no.1 qualifier more than once.
Oh wait... memory 's starting to go..That was me...

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Mark,

Weren't they considered 'Junior Pimp Mobiles',,,,;)

By the way, that's Betty Crocker in the passenger seat...

http://www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_ima/86cdv.jpg

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Again, it was not a Stock or Super Stock car, but back in the day, at Music City, AKA "the Hill", there was a red Datsun pick up truck with a big block Chevy and a 'Glide. In the bed. J. R. Sosh owned it, and called it "Ratsun".

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Those are cool cars. There's a warehouse in Shelbyville TN that is full of them and other Studebakers, he has another bunch in a field.

I think the guy bought out the inventory when the last company went under while producing the "Avanti II'.

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It wasn't loud was it Tom ???

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Back in the 70"s a guy from Mass bracket raced a 50"s Chevy Panel Van with a 427, it was a 11 second sleeper.

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In the early 90's I ran a "rail buggy" (bracket race) I gave him a .90 spot. He laeft then broke an axle & came into my lane....I got stopped but a very odd race.

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1980 Summernationals, Stock Elim, rd. 2, I was running a U/SA 6-banger '71 Nova and I get paired against Bob Bender in his Y/SA Vega wagon. I'm used to leaving first on everyone and here I have to spot Bobby almost 3 seconds! Needless to say, I redlit big time.

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It wasnt too bad ,he had a 4" exhaust out the back,but I could still hear it over my car!
If I remember correctly ,it ran in the hi 12's ..Had a small Allison 4 speed behind it.
The owner was a diesel mechanic ,and I guess he didnt see enough of them at work.

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I'd nominate anyone who had to race me in my first car - a 59 Nash Metropolitan.

It was able to talk my parents into letting me buy it for $150 when I was 14 and learned to drive a stick in the field next to our house.

AHRA classified the car as X/FG but I'm not entirely sure the tech guy didn't just pull a class at random since he was pretty well stumped.

I won my class at Pacific Dragstrip in Pacific, Missouri the day they gave out free jackets to class winners. In the first round of Eliminator, I came up against a Pontiac Tempest Sprint (OHC 6 cylinder with a Quadrajet) that cleaned my clock in epic proportions.

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ok im still laughing... but i think the diesel tractor guy wins the blue ribbon...

in the old days they had co-pilot nights Mj & i put a bunch of seatbelts in and went 3 rounds with 7-8 passengers > too much fun for us but i wonder if there are 2-3 people somewhere with us on a list :)

jacl

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I ran my 1969 VW beetle at New York National in 1969.I was in class XF/F Experimental
Foreign F.

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I got chased in my 14 sec. Monte Carlo at E-Town by a 78 Ford Mason dump with a supercharged BB Ford dialed 13.78. The Truck was called the "Brickslayer" and it was fully functional. Must have weighed 9000 lbs!

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I was bracket racing at E town and I raced an all wheel drive Ford Tempo. He had a 6 second start on me i think. That said I ran him down.

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Old Gateway back in the 80's bracket raced a SCCA Formula Ford

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That's easy.

Bill Howell's turbo charged Dodge Caravan minivan. That little sucker hauled those printing jobs too (not really, I think).

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Your memory is better than mine. I remembered the letters but didn't remember where the eliminator/class slash should have been. Thanks for the clarification.

How an embarrassingly bone stock Nash Metro got put in an experimental class is another question. Yes, it was ugly; yes, it was ridiculous; yes, it looked like something 15 clowns would come rolling out of - but my parents allowed me to buy since they figured I couldn't hurt myself too bad and besides it would even bark the 600-13s in second gear.

My early attempts at speed shifting took out a spider gear which turned out to be a huge ordeal to get repaired in rural Missouri.

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I don't know who's Volkswagen this is, seen it posted in one of the CR photo albums...but it's a cute little bug.
http://classracer.com/classforum/pic...pictureid=1037

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A Ford dump truck at Etown back in the mid 1980's.

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One other odd vehicle I raced against back in the mid t late 80`s was a little 50cc crotch rocket. I was dialed in the mid 18`s and had to chase by 9 seconds. Luckily he missed a shift and I passed him at the 1000'. My "friends" were all pulling for the bike.

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Several years ago, there was an ex Sand Drag racer who converted his tube chassis, aluminum body Jeep to dragstrip duty. It had a supercharged Pontiac "Slant 4" (basically one side of a 389 V8, used in the early Tempest cars),the engine was mounted behind the driver. I believe it burned alcohol, and ran in the high 8 second range, and had a very unique sound to it. It must have been a handfull before, running those scooped paddle tires in the sand.

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Come on Hawk, I don't know about those friends, but I'm a friend of yours, and I'd have been rootin' for you man...it would've been cool to see you chasing after that bike too (something we seldom get to do huh?). The only way I'd like that race more, is if I were you chasing him!!!

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Then there was that guy who ran a blue one with an auto ...... wait, no, that couldn't happen could it? Jim


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