Bought my first car ar 12 years old. At 17 worked in a junk yard/body shop and at 24 opened my own auto sales and junk yard business. Ran stock cars in the 60's and 70's and have owned so many rods, cl***ics, antiques, I lost count. Just found out about this site , and trying to figure out how some of it works --- Ray Canner
Ray.....Welcome to H.A.M.B. from Wisconsin.....Lots of nice people here to help and give advice to you......enjoy the ride....Big Bad John
Ray Canner,...................Welcome to the H.A.M.B..................from Arkansas City, KS. I quit counting as well, and I also paid off my first car at the age of 12. You are going to really have a good time here. Later, firstnomad www.angelfire.com/jazz/flatlandstudio
Just a good place for all us gear heads to bull **** bout car stuff. Hello and welcome from the Detroit area. Got any good ol racing stories bout back in the day? My ol man used to dirt track race in the late 70's early 80's. He loved and believed in the Chevy 327 so much that he chose that engine to build for his car. He rebuilt and balanced the engine himself at home and had that engine running so good smooth that he took off the outer ring of the vibration damper to lighten the rotating m*** and it never missed a beat like that. Ran a lightened flywheel and said that thing would turn over 9K on the straights, ran it for 7 seasons like that. It likes the rpms he said and he won the championship many times. He said everybody else was running 350's by that time and nobody believed him that he could dominate like that with a little 327 but whenever somebody was willing to put up the 200 bucks to tear him down the track officials would look under his hood and see the breather vent behind his distributor and say, "ain't worth it fella's this guy has a small journal engine under there". He always got a laugh outta those guys. But that's just another story as to why the 327 was the little giant killer!
Ernest Chev, I remember how the 327's used to rule the Late Model Sportsman races at the mile dirt track at Lakewood Fairgrounds in Atlanta. Leon Sells was a**** the best dirt track drivers I ever saw, and his 327 powered '64 Chevelle was the car to beat. He was hard to catch on the straightaways, and nobody could out-drive him in the turns.
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