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

[Jeff Niceswanger]

Originally Posted by HP HUNTER

My first car in high school was a 68 Z28 Camaro with a crate L88, we cut the domes down, what we could, opened the chambers up, installed a Moroso pan, Accel BEI ignition, 800 Holley DP on the factory intake, I had beautiful Heliarced Hooker/Davis 21/8 headers, slapper bars, Muncie with a V gate ,I had a lot of fun in that car.

Just wondering if you ever ran this thing? The reason I asked is I had one very very similar that I drove back and forth to high school. 69 Z-28 w/a new crate motor 427 L-72 with All L-88 valve train , aluminum flywheel ,Hookers,6 quart "optional" GM oil pan, 800 Double pumper on a factory intake. .Even had the slapper bars (and a 4.88 gear)..... Sounds like the same car....I had a super shifter though. Ran 11.80's.....

[Marty Knox]

My first car was a 55 Chevy 4 door sedan with a 235 and a 3 speed. I bought it when I was freshman in high school. I paid $25 for it. I borrowed the $25 from my father, cut grass all summer to pay him back. This was the spring of 67, I didn't get a drivers license until July 69. I bought/sold/traded cars, had 7 or 8 before I got my license.
My first street car was a 63 Biscayne station wagon with a 230 and a 3 speed. My dad gave it to me to make up for the 63 Tempest convertible after my brother blew up the transmission. In the fall of 69 I took it to Englishtown and ran U/Stock. First time out I ran 20's, was runner up. I put a Hurst floor shift in, got into the 19's, and won class the next 4 weeks.

[HP HUNTER]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

Just wondering if you ever ran this thing? The reason I asked is I had one very very similar that I drove back and forth to high school. 69 Z-28 w/a new crate motor 427 L-72 with All L-88 valve train , aluminum flywheel ,Hookers,6 quart "optional" GM oil pan, 800 Double pumper on a factory intake. .Even had the slapper bars (and a 4.88 gear)..... Sounds like the same car....I had a super shifter though. Ran 11.80's.....

I raced the car on the street 10 and 11th grade, lost the important races due to violent tire spin. In my senior year I replaced the Muncie with a turbo 400 and vega converter, ran 29 X 9 slicks and started racing at the track, my best was 11.30s, quite fast at the time. During high school I lived in Kearney Nebraska, I had a lot of run ins with the police of of that small town, I sold the car and engine and built a copy of Econo performer (1970 Monte Carlo) I always missed my 68 Z and thought about that car a lot, and searched for the person I sold it too for years with no luck. Now living in Colorado I test my car in Kearney quite often, in July Kearney has big car show and drag race, I looked forward to that race all year, but due to buisness commitments I could not make it in 2013. The following Monday after this car show/drag race I get a call from a person I do not know, and he tells me my Camaro was at the car show for sale on a trailer, he tells me my parents name were still on the registration, he gives me the phone number to the seller, I finally get a hold of him, the same guy I sold it too, he tells me he Email me with his banking info that evening, that Email came late that night informing me he already sold the car earlier that evening. Still pretty upset.

[fabe427]

My 1st car was a 67 Fairlane hardtop 390 c6 9inch rear. Street raced it in the Joliet Il. area in the mid 80s. Learned how to bracket race in this car, restored it over 9 years. Eventually ran 11.60. Sold it to a good friend who bracket raced it at route 66 and Byron for years. Two years ago came home on my 45th birthday the title was sitting on my diner plate! My wonderful wife Karen had bought it back for me! Been rebuilding the car ever since. Should be finished in the next year or so.
Happy new year-Ed.

[jim powers]

first race car 63 chevy nova 6 cylinder stick in h/mp 71 to 73

[Geerhead55]

Originally Posted by fabe427

My 1st car was a 67 Fairlane hardtop 390 c6 9inch rear. Street raced it in the Joliet Il. area in the mid 80s. Learned how to bracket race in this car, restored it over 9 years. Eventually ran 11.60. Sold it to a good friend who bracket raced it at route 66 and Byron for years. Two years ago came home on my 45th birthday the title was sitting on my diner plate! My wonderful wife Karen had bought it back for me! Been rebuilding the car ever since. Should be finished in the next year or so.
Happy new year-Ed.

Wow! What a great story,,, I'm thinking Karen is deffinately a keeper!
Danny Durham

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by cal

So My new question is.. What was your 1st Race car or street car or both?

My first street car was a '68 Chevelle purchased in '77. My first race car was another '68 Chevelle purchased from the original owner in '81 that over the course of 27 years was transformed from a stock driver who's first pass down the 1/4 mile resulted in a 15.41, to a restified street/strip/bracket car that ran well into the 9's and impressed all that have seen it run...

[jnor]

My first car was a 57 Ford that my grandfather left me...312 auto...the day I got my license I took it to the dragstrip (Hyde Park)...Can't remember what class it was, but it was super slow...

First race car was a 66 Chevelle 396/375 4spd, I think it ran B/S. Stock it ran 13.30's, with 7" slick, and headers 12.20's, eventually got it to 11.80's that was all in the late 60's, early 70's.. I raced it at Hyde Park, National Trail, then moved to Miami, and raced it at Miami/Hollywood Speedway Park...

I street raced that thing a bunch in Columbus, and Miami also ( young, and dumb then, just dumb now

[Jeff Niceswanger]

Originally Posted by jnor

My first car was a 57 Ford that my grandfather left me...312 auto...the day I got my license I took it to the dragstrip (Hyde Park)...Can't remember what class it was, but it was super slow...

First race car was a 66 Chevelle 396/375 4spd, I think it ran B/S. Stock it ran 13.30's, with 7" slick, and headers 12.20's, eventually got it to 11.80's that was all in the late 60's, early 70's.. I raced it at Hyde Park, National Trail, then moved to Miami, and raced it at Miami/Hollywood Speedway Park...

I street raced that thing a bunch in Columbus, and Miami also ( young, and dumb then, just dumb now

Do you remember Jerry Ackers 65 Chevelle? It was the fastest thing we had back in that era and I know "Newark verses Zanesville" happened quite frequently. Were you a participant of the Creamery road races?

[Greg Reimer 7376]

First really fast car that I had was a '62 impla SS with a 409. I took it to the original Irwindale Raceway in 1976 and basically didn't know a thing about what to do on a drag strip,but after a little flogging of the car and a lot of learning by the driver,it went low 13's at 107 and change. A set of fenderwell headers, 4.88's and a 30 inch slick got it into the 12.60's at 109. Lots of fun to race, and an insane car to drive on the street. Never got into trouble with it,however. I had rerung the 409, did the heads at work, and installed a NOS replacement stock camshaft and new lifters in it during this time. In 1982,Tony Janes and Chuck Norton introduced me to the Stock Eliminator thing,and that's the game I've played ever since. We've had a 283 car or two, but mostly a whole bunch of red '68 Chevelles with 327 power.I guess if it wasn't fun, we wouldn't be still doing it.