We raced this Mustang I built for over 20 years, its now in Texas. Owner is trying to sell but nobody wants it because of the Lenco.
This is why my Hot Rods aren't done. Hey @Moriarity, it's not HAMB friendly but it does have the man pedal!
My 1st dirt track race car. My wife and I got married on May 8 (still married to her), the pic on the left was taken towards the end of that month. That is probably me standing on the car, the other guy was the guy that did the lettering. We were probably about a week before we would go racing. The car did not fit in that garage behind it. The picture on the right was the 1st day at the track. My fake race car, just before the repaint. The results of my 3 week driving career. 1st week, smashed both front fenders in trying to fit between two very large cars. The guy (that would be me) that told me if the front end fit, the rest of the car would too, was wrong. I watched both front fenders fold in and the hood "V" up in the middle! The 2nd week I blew up the motor. The 3rd week, someone going a whole lot faster then me through a 3 & 4 corner, caught the driver side front bumper, and that pulled the frame rail apart from the transmission cross member. The firewall pulled apart from the floor pan and I lost the steering (ripped the shaft in two pieces) and brakes (pulled the rod out of the master cylinder). I think everyone on the track hit me as the car spun around uncontrollably, I was just riding along. The car finally came to a stop against the front straight wall. The car was a rust bucket someone gave me. The track had just cut the 1/2 mile track in 1/2 (3 & 4 turns were on the big track, and the straight between them cut through the infield and was black dirt), the rest of the track was clay. This new class I was running in was on the smaller track. The car was light, and quick, but cutting across that infield was more like a hang on and hope it worked deal. After only a couple weeks, there was a big dip that developed in the middle of the cut across the infield. You had to have the car turned sideways as you left the clay track back straight, hit the big dip straight, and have the wheels cranked so when the car landed back on the ground, the car would turn, then you mashed the gas and hoped the mud cleared out of the tires so when you got to the front straight, the car could move forward before you got to the wall on the front straight. Everyone was driving that infield crossing the same way. Most of the cars in the class were large barges, a 70's Chrysler Imperial was the king of the class. It was fun for as long as the car lasted. I also owned a car that was running in the next class up, but it ran on the 1/2 mile, and I didn't drive it (my wife wouldn't let me drive on the 1/2 mile, she did let me drive on the 1/4 until after this crash). For the picture, that smiling fool would be a much younger me, I'd just got off work as a heavy machine repair maintenance guy in a brass and aluminum forge shop. My fellow worker (and racer) hauled the car to his house for me (it was close to the track), this picture was at his house that Monday after work, as we got ready to take my wreck home.
I saw your Mustang a few years ago at a race in Denton Texas, very nice car hard to believe the Lenco would be a hard sell.
[QUOTE="I saw your Mustang a few years ago at a race in Denton Texas, very nice car hard to believe the Lenco would be a hard sell.[/QUOTE] Jim is 82 now but still loves to row through the gears! He is only selling because he just can't do everything need at the track to run the car. Plus he doesn't care for 1/8 mile tracks, only 5.8 seconds of excitement! Apparently everyone down there thinks it would not be competitive with the Lenco. It was when it was here!!! Hope this video works,
My beater that was my little brother’s first car and built in 92. Trying to get some things sorted out so we can go racing again.
This is from a couple weeks ago, Qualifying at the FunnyCar Chaos event (we qualified 7th and went to the QuarterFinals when we found a crack in the frame and unable to continue). I don't know what the photographer has for a camera but this is an awesome shot. In case you are wondering, we put a link in the throttle blades so they open only about 3/16ths of an inch, thats all it takes to do a burnout, it gets removed doing the final prep as we get him into the lights.
I've been helping, sponsoring and towing my best friends Valiant wagon for 30 plus years now. We've had a lifetime of great memories.
Between the ages of 14 and 17 I got to crew on this late model sportsman stock car, as much as they would let me. And as a bonus, I got to travel to the races and work in the pits. What an education! Years later I married the owner's youngest daughter!
Just sold this last winter. Ran NHRA competition eliminator - C/Dragster with my father for many years, and last year just me and my wife. Coolest class in all drag racing I think.
There's a special sound they make when everything is just right, very hard to get that sound, and thats what we're hearing now! Awsome!
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