Fire Dept Drag Racing

[Paul Precht]

Originally Posted by DMann0825

i remember reading an article about a new york fire dept that bought a new 1965 cross ram 426 hemi dodge 990 car for this competition and cut off the roof and half of the rear for the modifications to compete in this wild kind of competition! I gave my magazine collection away when we moved so i can,t tell you the name of the magazine---but could have been hi-performance cars--- i sure someone else must have seen it---help me out---and of course the car was red!

It was one of the few that would wheelstand with the poor guys hanging on to what was a 9 second car easily, as they ran it well into the late 80s. I believe the min weight was 2250lb for the C trucks. I saw some youtubes of it a year or so ago, I'll try to find it again. I'm almost positive it was Patchogue. Back in 72 I was at one of the races and Central Islip blew the motor in their A truck, it was a 413 Max Wedge with a 671 blower. The next few weeks I spent negotiating to buy it as is from them but they decided to rebuild it, 600 dollars was the price. I would have had one bad *** street/strip 63 Sport Fury for a 17 year old kid in 72.