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

[Mike Gray]

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.

[cicero819]

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

[joe huestis]

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 !!

[Mike Schwartz]

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

[cal]

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

[hgates3]

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

[cal]

Originally Posted by hgates3

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

It is a super nice car too.

Cal
S/ST HR 1177