Silly Season II What was your 1st Street car &/OR race car?
 

Hello All :wave:

It is that time of year again.

What is new what is old ECT ECT ECT ...

So My new question is.. What was your 1st Race car or street car or both?

My 1st street car was a 1966 SS Impala that my Uncle bought new in 66 for his wife. I got it in 1975 at 16 years old. 327/300 Power Glide, Red with Black inertia, only thing I added was SS Cragars. Never raced it at the track.

1st Street Race car was a 67 SS Chevelle 396/375 4 spd car (factory 396/350 HP car) that I put a turbo 400 in almost as soon as I got it.
Ran 13.20 in like 78 or 79. In early 80 put a 454 LS6 in it and ran some 12.20. Only raced the car a few times at MIR.

Those were the days.
OK your turn !!!

As a side note, when I bought the 67 SS Chevelle. I borrowed $500 from my girl friend at the time. Instead of paying her back I married her. The cars has been gone since the mid 90s but she is still here 33 years later.
Maybe I should have paid her back!!! NAH its been a good 33 years, I think , but I could be wrong I have CRS disease. LOL

Cal
S/ST HR 1177

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My first car was a 1941 Ford coupe. First actual race car was a 1956 Chevy. First street/strip car was a 1948 Plymouth with a 1955 Dodge Hemi. My only trip over to the Dark Side. LOL

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Mine was my high school graduation gift and first street car. 1979 Cutlass. 260 V-8 2bbl. With the jack, spare, toolbox etc out, was 3,570 pounds with me in it. Best run of 18.59 @ 72. Won my first round, and first race, in it in 2000 in my rookie year. 1 win, 2 R/U's (both by -.00 reds), and third round or better at every race but one. Slow, but effective car and helped teach me a lot about finish line racing a slow car when I got into Billy Nees' two FWD Stockers later on.

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1st car was a 1969 Camaro that I got in January 1996, my senior year of high school. I still have the car, it underwent a major overhaul/restoration in the early 2000s, made its drag strip debut in 2003 running low 12s with a pump gas 406, very streetable. Went as quick as 10.90 with the same engine on a 125 shot. In the middle of yet another transformation, it will be debuting a 427 small block, pump gas motor this spring. Hoping for 9s on this one. Had it pretty well ready to go last year, then my wife broke her leg and I dislocated my shoulder just 2 weeks apart. Healed up by mid summer, but had work commitments. Getting ready for the spring as we speak! Good luck to everyone in 2014 :)

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My first car was a 1959 Plymouth Belvedere with a Dodge 325 4-barrel engine and a 2-speed powerflight trans. My first drag car was a 1964 Comet 2-door post with a 260 and a 4- speed toploader trans, loved that car!


Leonard A. Johnson 4445 CC/SA

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My first car was a '64 Malibu hardtop with a 230 6cyl/ 3 on the tree combo, in the fall of 1970. My dad wouldn't cosign for a V-8 car,, wonder what he knew?? My first race car was a black '66 Chevy II Nova SS 327/275 Glide car that I tore apart and built a 331- 4 speed combo with 4:88s in a 12 bolt that was hard to find even in '74. By then I'd seen Jim Parson's & Terry Harmon's '66 car and Ralph Van Paepeghem's '66 also, so I just had to get one! I just wanted something that would go 12.99 and first time out it goes an .86, so I thought "how hard was that?" So I started working on it, and eventually got it down to an 11.01, before I sold it. It bothered me for many years that I couldn't run a 10.99,,, it wasn't a stocker, but I had my own set of rules I wouldn't break, as it would've been too easy to put a big motor in it, and I wanted to keep it a .30 over 327, with no roller cam, and my 461x heads. I used to love dumping that clutch at 7600 with the later 5:57s, banging the gears and going through at 7300, with the front wheels waist high on the launch. Happy New Year everyone.
Danny Durham

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My first car in high school was a 68 Z28 Camaro with a crate L88, we cut the domes down, what we could, opened the chambers up, installed a Moroso pan, Accel BEI ignition, 800 Holley DP on the factory intake, I had beautiful Heliarced Hooker/Davis 21/8 headers, slapper bars, Muncie with a V gate ,I had a lot of fun in that car.

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My first car was a 47 chevy coupe. My dad bought for $60.00 I believe. Got me to school but the "disease" caused me to sell and buy a 55 chevy former race car with a 283.
First race car was the 56 Sedan Delivery of John Dianna. That was third hand and rules changed at the end of my first 6 or 7 weeks of ownership. Changed it to a 2 Dr wagon with the same motor and a glide. Began Learning how to set the timing, valves on a V-8 as I went. Runner up to John Barkley at my first Indy 1970 class two weeks later. I believe we had 19 cars in O/SA. 14.26

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My first car was my graduation present from my parents in 1984,a 1978 Buick Skyhawk. It`s the same car I still have today in Stock and it`s going through a complete rebuild including a new engine,trans,converter and rear end gears. It got new pearl white and candy purple paint a few years ago,time for everything else!

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1st Street Car: 69 Nova SS 396/375 4 Speed. 1972. Sold The Car, The Guy Still Has It.

1st Race Car: 69 Camaro Super Stocker 350/255 1974-78

2nd Race Car: Currently Racing A 89 Camaro in Stock Elim. 305/220 2009-?

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Just wondering if you ever ran this thing? The reason I asked is I had one very very similar that I drove back and forth to high school. 69 Z-28 w/a new crate motor 427 L-72 with All L-88 valve train , aluminum flywheel ,Hookers,6 quart "optional" GM oil pan, 800 Double pumper on a factory intake. .Even had the slapper bars (and a 4.88 gear)..... Sounds like the same car....I had a super shifter though. Ran 11.80's.....

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My first car was a 55 Chevy 4 door sedan with a 235 and a 3 speed. I bought it when I was freshman in high school. I paid $25 for it. I borrowed the $25 from my father, cut grass all summer to pay him back. This was the spring of 67, I didn't get a drivers license until July 69. I bought/sold/traded cars, had 7 or 8 before I got my license.
My first street car was a 63 Biscayne station wagon with a 230 and a 3 speed. My dad gave it to me to make up for the 63 Tempest convertible after my brother blew up the transmission. In the fall of 69 I took it to Englishtown and ran U/Stock. First time out I ran 20's, was runner up. I put a Hurst floor shift in, got into the 19's, and won class the next 4 weeks.

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I raced the car on the street 10 and 11th grade, lost the important races due to violent tire spin. In my senior year I replaced the Muncie with a turbo 400 and vega converter, ran 29 X 9 slicks and started racing at the track, my best was 11.30s, quite fast at the time. During high school I lived in Kearney Nebraska, I had a lot of run ins with the police of of that small town, I sold the car and engine and built a copy of Econo performer (1970 Monte Carlo) I always missed my 68 Z and thought about that car a lot, and searched for the person I sold it too for years with no luck. Now living in Colorado I test my car in Kearney quite often, in July Kearney has big car show and drag race, I looked forward to that race all year, but due to buisness commitments I could not make it in 2013. The following Monday after this car show/drag race I get a call from a person I do not know, and he tells me my Camaro was at the car show for sale on a trailer, he tells me my parents name were still on the registration, he gives me the phone number to the seller, I finally get a hold of him, the same guy I sold it too, he tells me he Email me with his banking info that evening, that Email came late that night informing me he already sold the car earlier that evening. Still pretty upset.

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My 1st car was a 67 Fairlane hardtop 390 c6 9inch rear. Street raced it in the Joliet Il. area in the mid 80s. Learned how to bracket race in this car, restored it over 9 years. Eventually ran 11.60. Sold it to a good friend who bracket raced it at route 66 and Byron for years. Two years ago came home on my 45th birthday the title was sitting on my diner plate! My wonderful wife Karen had bought it back for me! Been rebuilding the car ever since. Should be finished in the next year or so.
Happy new year-Ed.

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first race car 63 chevy nova 6 cylinder stick in h/mp 71 to 73

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My first car was a 1972 Chevelle 2dr hard top 350 ,th350, it ran low 15's with a 2 something gear in it and was killer in the street ET class. My lovely brother hammered the death nail in its coffin.

First "Real" race car is the 1965 Acadian I currently have a build thread for. That car ran mid 11's and also was a regular in the winners circle, learned many valuable lessons about driving the stripe in that car.

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Wow! What a great story,,, I'm thinking Karen is deffinately a keeper!
Danny Durham

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First car was a 74 camaro, sold it and bought a 1967 camaro. Drove it for three months on the street and my dad and I turned it into a stocker. Still racing it after 29 years.

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First car was a 1972 Dodge Dart Swinger with a 318 2bbl. It ran a best of 16.69 @ 81. :o

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My first street car was a '68 Chevelle purchased in '77. My first race car was another '68 Chevelle purchased from the original owner in '81 that over the course of 27 years was transformed from a stock driver who's first pass down the 1/4 mile resulted in a 15.41, to a restified street/strip/bracket car that ran well into the 9's and impressed all that have seen it run...

http://classracer.com/classforum/pic...pictureid=5258

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My first car was a 57 Ford that my grandfather left me...312 auto...the day I got my license I took it to the dragstrip (Hyde Park)...Can't remember what class it was, but it was super slow...

First race car was a 66 Chevelle 396/375 4spd, I think it ran B/S. Stock it ran 13.30's, with 7" slick, and headers 12.20's, eventually got it to 11.80's that was all in the late 60's, early 70's.. I raced it at Hyde Park, National Trail, then moved to Miami, and raced it at Miami/Hollywood Speedway Park...

I street raced that thing a bunch in Columbus, and Miami also ( young, and dumb then, just dumb now :(

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Do you remember Jerry Ackers 65 Chevelle? It was the fastest thing we had back in that era and I know "Newark verses Zanesville" happened quite frequently. Were you a participant of the Creamery road races?

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First really fast car that I had was a '62 impla SS with a 409. I took it to the original Irwindale Raceway in 1976 and basically didn't know a thing about what to do on a drag strip,but after a little flogging of the car and a lot of learning by the driver,it went low 13's at 107 and change. A set of fenderwell headers, 4.88's and a 30 inch slick got it into the 12.60's at 109. Lots of fun to race, and an insane car to drive on the street. Never got into trouble with it,however. I had rerung the 409, did the heads at work, and installed a NOS replacement stock camshaft and new lifters in it during this time. In 1982,Tony Janes and Chuck Norton introduced me to the Stock Eliminator thing,and that's the game I've played ever since. We've had a 283 car or two, but mostly a whole bunch of red '68 Chevelles with 327 power.I guess if it wasn't fun, we wouldn't be still doing it.

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My first street car was a 1968 Mustang. factory 302 4 bbl 4 speed car. Ran high 13's at the local dragstrip with open headers and street tires. Wish I had that one back. I sold the mustang to buy my 1968 Camaro race car. Ran C/SM when I first built the car. after some work I got it to run under the index. I then converted the car to run Super Stock. I am still running the car today as a SS/HA with a 295 hp 350. Best time to date is 9.93 at SS/IA weight.

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The first car I bought was a 1957 Chev 150 business coupe that I promptly tore apart to build a Stocker. It took me 2 years of grocery store money before I finally made the first pass. Eventually ran within .25 of the national record (14.42 on a 14.17 record.) 283 2-bbl with a 4-speed. I walked to work and hitched rides to be able to have the race car. I was 15 when I bought the car. Shortly after, college and the NHRA rules changes made the car unreasonable, so I bought a one-owner 55 sedan and transferred a lot of the parts to it to have a transportation car. Built a roller cammed 283 to drive on the street. Somebody stole the 57 body. My parents never understood what I was doing. Looking back, I don't either. My first street car came after my first race car.

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First car with my name on the title was a 71 Plymouth Fury III 4 door that I paid $150 in 1985. It had a 318/2bbl and a lot of rust. It would run 17.90s initially. My dad's friend ran a muffler shop, and they cobbled together a dual exhaust for me for the price of an extra large deluxe pizza. Then she ran 17.30s. Even though I've been racing for 30 years and have taken over 50 different vehicles down the track, I've neither owned or driven what could be called a "race" car. Closest to one would be my '78 Aspen with the "Super" slant six that racn low to mid 19s. When I bought my first ever new car, I decided to rip out the back seat and the non functioning AC system outta the Aspen and make it my "race car". Bam, 18.90s, baby! best of 18.73 at 72mph. It sat outside at my buddy's garage in Avon, OH all week til I would go racing, then I'd switch cars and drive to Norwalk or Dragway 42.

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1st street car, '67 mustang GT 390 fastback (I was there at Irwindale in the '70's also)
1st race car, '67 mustang coupe with a H/M 427 tunnel port that I bought from Mickey Thompson. With all stock factory parts it went 10.50's @3100lb.
last race car "69 mustang (S/G) with same tunnel port modified 9.50's
Current race car (unfinished) '67 Shelby stocker
Kind of stuck on the mustang theme.

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Since I'm sitting in my home office being on the phone stuck on hold or ignore, what better way to remember those cars that created such fun. I started at fourteen years old with buying a 1967 VW bug, what an education, I learned everything from engine rebuild to complete paint and body work, I must have done quite the job because a gentleman walking by one day offered me $2k(1975 price) for which I converted into a 1967 Mustang GT which became my High school transportation until a Petty Blue 70 Super Bird on cement blocks caught my eye and we we're together for four years while I was putting it back together(and driving it). This was before the restoration trend started, just imagine I used the $5k for the purchase of my first house(down payment only) considering that I profited from the sale of my first home I could evaluate my lost to a break even proposition, I've own so many muscle cars since, that I can only say that I should have not taken them for granted.lol My first real race car was a 69 Camaro Stocker and now after an absence of more than 20 yrs I bought a former Don Hardy Vega to race. I hope that I don't run out of gas physically.lol

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First street and race car was a '57 Chevy 210 Wagon. My Dad bought it in 1968 as a station car to drive to work with the intent of turning it over to me for my 16th birthday. It had a 6 cyl with 3 on the tree.Well, the 6 eventually expired prior to my birthday and I replaced it with a 283- 4V with a hurst 3 speed shifter. Ran the car at Dover Drag Strip in Wingdale, NY and collected a total of 15 plus trophies with it before a blew it up on my first pass in 1973 of the new season. Sold the '57 and purchased my '69 Camaro that same year converting it into a stocker which I ran from '73 to '80 until I sold it. Built my '69 Nova which I ran in V/SA from '81 to '83, then purchased my Monza which I currently race now for the past 30 years. Time sure does fly !!

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My first street and race car was a 1969 Chevrolet Malibu 307/2bbl that I bought off a used car lot in Rahway NJ in 1976. I raced it in Trophy Stock and Street Eliminator at Englishtown. It was pretty much bone stock and the best time was in the 18's

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Thanks guys it is GREAT to bring back your old memories.

What we could have done back then had we knew then what we know now.

Cal
S/ST HR 1177

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Here is my first post I normally just read,watch and learn. My 1st Street car was a 61 Studebaker in 1975 it also was used to make my 1st pass down a drag strip at Capital Raceway in 1976. After a full chassis in 1995 it became a full race car. We still race this car in super rod we finished # 4 in Div. 1 2013. Great site.

H/R 105C

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My first street car was a 1961 Ford Country Squire - 9 passenger station wagon, with a robin's egg blue Earl Scheib paint job, chrome skirts, and yes, it did have the wood grain on the sides. This was in 1967, so my Dad bought it for me to go to college locally, I think he spent about $650.00 on it. When we test drove it before buying, it was a real slug and could barely get out of its own way (I guess he figured I couldn't screw this thing up, it was bullet proof). I was working at a gas station part time and decided it needed a tune-up, so my buddy and I took a closer look and found out it was a 390 cid, four barrel, dual exhausts, so we did the usual - plugs, dist cap, wires, air cleaner, fuel filter, it ran better, but it was still a pig. At that same time, the family car was a 1964 Ford Galaxy 500 fastback with a 352 - 4 barrel, dual exhausts and for what it was, it would haul, surprised a few people on the street. My brother, who was three years older showed me how you could manually shift the automatic by pulling it all the way into low, put it in drive and then pull it back to low and it would shift to 2nd gear and then shift it again back to drive it and it would go to high. The reason I tell the story about the 64 is that one day I was driving the wagon to work, running late, went to pass somebody, pulled it all the way to low, floored it, the front end jumped up in the air and it started to really haul, shifted the wagon like the 64, it smoked the tires when it went into second and it was like, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This thing is faster than the 64. Finally figured out that the shift linkage was messed up and it was always starting out in 2nd gear, even though though the shifter said it was in Drive, which should have been 1st gear. I did not tell my Dad until years later after the car was gone. He could not understand how the rear tires were only lasting about 8 weeks. Needless to say, I surprised a few GTO's and SS 396 Chevelles for the first 500 feet, of course then it was all over, but that thing sure was a sleeper. Oh, I did take off the chrome skirts before I drove it the first time. LOL

The first race car was a brand new 1969 Yenko Camaro, that was driven on the street to start with and then converted into a drag car over the next several years. This would be a lengthy story, but I will say the first NHRA points meet I went to in Columbus, Ohio, Marty Barrett told me to take my car home and fix about ten things before I could race, which was in 1972. The first NHRA points race I finally got to compete in was at Tri-City later that year, in Saginaw, Michigan and I raced John LIngenfelter first round (quite a story in itself) and Ron Mancini (Hemi-Dart SS/AA) the second round and then we went home, but it was a great day and needless to say the rest is history.

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Gary, A few years ago I had a clone Yenko Chevelle (69). As I was doing some research on the original Yenko's....If my memory is correct...of the total population of Yenko Chevelles ( I believe less than 100), 19 were sold through Marvelous Marve Minneman Chevyland in Youngstown.

the only significance to this info is Gary and I are both from the Y-town area.....

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Hey John,

You would be correct, my Yenko did come from Marve Minneman Chevrolet in Austintown, Ohio. In fact a copy of the original window price label is currently on the parts manager's office wall, that is all I have left of that car along with some old pictures.

I had started working at General Motors in the fall of 1968, so I figured it was time to sell the 67 Mustang and go with a GM car. I actually wanted to buy a new 69 Corvette 427-435, but my Dad would not co-sign for the loan for a "PLASTIC" car as he put it. I was at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in basic training and we would usually talk on the weekends and Pops said he found me a Camaro and asked if I ever heard of a Yenko? Of course I had, in fact I even had looked at the one he was talking about before I left for basic. Since I knew, the Corvette deal was not going to happen, I told him go ahead and make the deal on the Yenko. He got the loan for me and bought it, I called him the next weekend, had him start it up in the garage and had my Mom drag the phone as far as the wire would let her so I could hear it run, of course he nailed the throttle a couple times and it was music to the ear. I was done with basic in a couple weeks and got to go home and drive my new car. There are a lot of stories that go with that car, more than I could write here, but probably the best one was in 1972, when it was only drag raced and ran low 11's, high 10's. I had just put a new race clutch in and my 53 year old Dad (who was a lot stronger than I was at 23) saw me struggling for an hour to get the Muncie back in asked if I wanted some help. The car was up on jack stands (that is a story in itself), he crawled under the car, picked the tranny up like it was a 5 pound stick and with one motion it was seated against the bell housing, crawled out and said there ya go, you can finish it. So I finished putting everything back together and asked him if he wanted to go for a short ride to test out the clutch, he said OK. We lived in a "VERY" residential neighborhood on a circle one way in, one way out and I told him I was just going to go around the circle. At that time, the car had slicks and open headers, no exhaust and was running it as a SS/D car. When I started driving, I turned to go out of the neighborhood instead of around the circle and he looked at me and yelled, "Where are you going?" I yelled back just up the street so I can make sure it goes in all four gears. I was use to the look he gave me, the one that said, you better not get a ticket. I went up to the next street which was a much better road (more traction), but I took it easy. We were probably a half mile from home and he yelled at me to turn it around and take it home. I pulled in a driveway, started backing out and he yelled, you better get going, cars are coming. That was all I needed to hear, stopped, reved it up to 6000, dropped the clutch and started pounding gears, got it in high gear, well over a 100 MPH, and started backing it down to make the turn to get back to our street, took it easy up the circle to our driveway, coasted in shut it off, looked over at him, he had this big "GRIN" on his face, his hands shaking and he could not talk much. I thanked him for helping me and said I think it works pretty good, what do you think? All he could say was "WOW", still shaking and I will never forget that big smile on his face. That was over 40 years ago, and he has been gone for almost 10 years, but it was times like that I will never forget. He was a hell of a guy, and more than once he would drag me and one of my cars home in the middle of the night and never complain. I was so Lucky to have a DAD like him. He took me to my first drag races in the late 1950's, and as they say the "Rest is History".....

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Gary,
First trip to the dragstrip was in 1963....Skyline Dragstrip ...just over the Ohio/Penn line towards New Castle on Rt.422. My dad would drop me off in the morning and I would sit there all day . Had a flagman at that time. $2 bucks to get in.

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First car: 55 Chev 2dr hardtop converted from dragstrip only use to street "legal" conformation. Black lacquer, red and white custom interior, 327 4bbl, Borg Warner T-10, 57 Pontiac rear end, wrinkle wall slicks. An absolutely gorgeous car. Was reasonably competitive on the street being limited by the 3.23 highway gearing and some type of Carter carb. Replaced the carb with a Holley and put the strip 5.57 rear gears in and WOW! Not bad wheels for a 16 year old! Paid for all of this with "illegal" profits generated by working in my dad's machine shop since age 12 (this was and is illegal) running Bridgeport mills, lathes, Blanchard grinders, and the usual finger removing toys of childhood. Met my (then 15 year old ) wife that same summer. Great memories with her, the car, street racing, cruising,...would not trade the experience for anything. Sold the car to my brother 2 years later(1975) in order to pay for ten years of college to become an orthodontist. The car was stolen from him that same summer and never recovered. First race car: 1955 chev 2 dr hdtop turquoise and white 265 2spd auto 6.50 rear gears SS/PA. Fast enough to set a National record, win class , win a couple of points races. Literally almost tons of fun(3600+-) for the past twenty years (1991-2011)! Parked for now. Currently racing 2012 Super Cobra Jet 331 4.0 liter supercharged in SS/AAA. My wife forbids me to go into the 8.99 and quicker zone but that is probably going to be hard for her to enforce with the index currently at 9.20
I am very fortunate and thankful to have had these experiences.
Doug Jonak

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It is a super nice car too.

Cal
S/ST HR 1177

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WOW
$2 bucks was a lot of money back then.
My dad was a Marine during that time 1960 to like 1970
He only made like $64 bucks a month in the early years.

Cal
S/ST HR 1177

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1st street car titled in my name was a '54 Olds 88 2 dr hardtop, 1963. 1st trip down the race track was at Marion, SD in a 1960 Valiant with a trans planted 250 hp 327 Chevy, 1967.

1st "real" race car was '66 Chevy 4 dr Bel Air SS/OA, 1988. Then a '66 2 dr Bel Air, SS/NA. Current ride is a '88 Olds Cutlass that had been run in GT/MA. The car is being converted to a SS/NA with Jerry Ryan 307 Olds power.

The other project is my purchased new '69 340 'Cuda that I re-acquired in 2013. It will be a street car with an occasional pass down the strip. It just goes to show that you never outgrow this crazy sport we participate in!

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Curt Rees