Anyone Start Drag Racing After Age 60?

FireSale · 12-16-2018, 06:27 PM

I just turned 71 so I qualify for this round.

In my teens in the mid 60s I was the "staff photographer" at Milan back in Michigan, a job picked up by Tom Kasch a few years after I went off to college. After hanging out in Boston, getting a teaching degree and moving to Washington State in the late 70s, I found that I hadn't been to the track in, like 30 years. Shame on me.

In 2013 I was back at Pacific Raceways with my camera for a Lucas Oil event watching my long time co-worker Alan Falcone work through staging with his GT car. I realized that it was time to get on the right side of the ready line.

In 2014 I bought a Craigs List 68 Mustang off some kid with bills to pay. I sold him back the engine and gutted the car, built it into a street legal bracket racer with a teardrop trailer to haul gear and camp in. In 2015-16 I got a lot of looks on the freeway with that rig. For 2017 and 18 I ditched the mufflers and turn signals and put it on a trailer as a full time race car. '17 was fun with aluminum heads and '18 was disappointing with iron ones. Now that I understand the N351 heads better and have sorted out the power gremlins, 2019 should be fun again. I'm trying to get teched for SS/CS to run in the local S/SS races.

I'm one of those people who doesn't sit on the couch very well and having a race car suites me fine. always something to mess with.

This is my first race car and I built everything myself in a two car home garage. Everything was financed from an investment of $4000 in Apple stock in 1986 at $16.50 per share. Literally forgot about it for 20 years. Never even opened a broker statement. Since I still have $17000 in that account I guess this is a free race car. It's nickname is Mad Money and I am Mr. Persistent.

12-16-2018, 06:27 PM	#7
FireSale VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Lakewood Washington Posts: 1,407 Likes: 29 Liked 237 Times in 126 Posts	Re: Anyone Start Drag Racing After Age 60? I just turned 71 so I qualify for this round. In my teens in the mid 60s I was the "staff photographer" at Milan back in Michigan, a job picked up by Tom Kasch a few years after I went off to college. After hanging out in Boston, getting a teaching degree and moving to Washington State in the late 70s, I found that I hadn't been to the track in, like 30 years. Shame on me. In 2013 I was back at Pacific Raceways with my camera for a Lucas Oil event watching my long time co-worker Alan Falcone work through staging with his GT car. I realized that it was time to get on the right side of the ready line. In 2014 I bought a Craigs List 68 Mustang off some kid with bills to pay. I sold him back the engine and gutted the car, built it into a street legal bracket racer with a teardrop trailer to haul gear and camp in. In 2015-16 I got a lot of looks on the freeway with that rig. For 2017 and 18 I ditched the mufflers and turn signals and put it on a trailer as a full time race car. '17 was fun with aluminum heads and '18 was disappointing with iron ones. Now that I understand the N351 heads better and have sorted out the power gremlins, 2019 should be fun again. I'm trying to get teched for SS/CS to run in the local S/SS races. I'm one of those people who doesn't sit on the couch very well and having a race car suites me fine. always something to mess with. This is my first race car and I built everything myself in a two car home garage. Everything was financed from an investment of $4000 in Apple stock in 1986 at $16.50 per share. Literally forgot about it for 20 years. Never even opened a broker statement. Since I still have $17000 in that account I guess this is a free race car. It's nickname is Mad Money and I am Mr. Persistent. __________________ Dale Shearon 68 Mustang 6394 Last edited by FireSale; 12-16-2018 at 06:30 PM.