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Originally Posted by Dave Goob Cook
You haven't truly lived until you have flat towed a '67 Impala Big-Block with a '66 Deuce, 4-speed. 
It gives you an appreciation of life in a hurry, after a hard stop.  |
In a similar vein. I used to flat tow one of my 67 Mustangs with a 74 Pinto. Another old schoolmate of both mine and my partner, flat towed an old Q/SA wagon with a beautiful 70 or 71 (don't remember which) BB Chevelle. My partner used to give both of us a rash of S-^$ about that, said we had this towing thing backwards. He still drove his 67 Camaro everywhere.
On my part, the stopping thing was sometimes interesting. On the other hand, you ever flat towed the back way to Brown County drag strip? I scared the begeezus(sic) out of bunch of picnicers going around one of those sharp corners one Sunday evening coming home!
I guess being young and broke then is no different than being old and broke now, LOL! Like a few others have lamented, it sure was alot of fun back then. And that 74 Pinto, won one of the last few trophies they gave out for weekend stock class wins at IRP before they switched to their bracket only format in 77, I believe. Like many have also said, usually you had run at least two races, sometimes more, just to get a trophy.