Silly Season Why do you Race?

[cal]

Originally Posted by Tod Lane

Strong masochistic streak?

We quit for 25 years but we have jumped back in. Once you're addicted it never completely goes away

I difenetly know that feeling, raced from about 78 to 95 and gave it up.
Sold everything, never even went to a race till 04.
Got back in in 08 and having a ball. got a S/ST 68 Vette and just got a SS/IA 68 Vette too.
Glutin for punishment LOL
Some day I'm gonna win one of these things.

Cal
S/ST HR 1177

[Ed Wright]

The race track is where almost all my friends are.

[RonTheAnnouncer]

I grew up at the track. Some of my earliest memories are playing around on my dad's homemade trailer at Dragway 42 while he raced an AHRA record holding "stock" VW Bug that ran high 16s. Playing in the dirt near the world's worst restrooms at Norwalk in the 70s, always watching my dad race and win with slow, ugly, oddball cars. I love this sport, and though I announce far more than I race now, I hope to always be involved in this sport somehow til they throw dirt on me. Drag racing is truly intertwined into who I am.
My father, 1977...

[Jeff Teuton]

I think Ed has the right answer. Went to my first race in '58 and started driving in '60. Been brain dead since. What finished me off was a stint mud racing in the 80's. Now you know you are done when you race them trucks. Picture this 79 Dodge W100, SS/DA Hemi Motor, but with a high torque 'birdbath' single carb Nascar manifold, about 650 hp then, a t/f trans, 5.29 gears front and back, 2 to 1 reduction in the transfer case, 4 32" tractor on the corners. When you hit the throttle, stuff happened. 3/8 mile mud oval. Wildest ride you ever needed, raced in fields nobody ever heard of, locals didn't like you showing up and taking the money, 357 was minimum equipment (just in case), and I now have no brain whatsoever. That's why I race. Pure pleasure.

[Dave Ley]

It's a " Life Sentence " !!!

The needle went in in 1966, been hooked ever since !

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Dave Ley

It's a " Life Sentence " !!!

The needle went in in 1966, been hooked ever since !

Only cures are death or total bankruptcy.

[Rich Biebel]

Originally Posted by Dave Ley

It's a " Life Sentence " !!!

The needle went in in 1966, been hooked ever since !

Exactly what Dave said right here.....except it was a few years earlier for me......
I Read magazines and started messing with cars when I was no older than about 13...
When the muscle car era really got going I was in high school and crazy about fast cars.
I convinced my father to drive down the entry road to Island Dragway in about 1963 when we were out for a Sunday drive and we sat and watched.....That was it for me....Hook was set....and I have never been able to get the hook out.....LOL

[The Hawk]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Only cures are death or total bankruptcy.

Just death

[hemid68]

I don't ever race, but I keep buying parts, on the chance that I'll get a project far enough along to race someday!

[SStockDart]

I was "clean" for 35 years.....when I stored the race car to raise a family.....but as they say, once an addict, always an addict.....LOL I got back into it in 2006.