Hi. I really hate it when I am asked to introduce myself, whether it's in front of a large group, or on a message board. But, since I want to be a good boy, I will. I was working in a diesel shop at 14. You know the drill, sweeping up, cleaning up after the mechanics. etc. I started hanging out with the local car guys, most of them were young airmen from the local air force base (Dover). They were running '68 L79 Chevy IIs, '55 Chevys, Z/28 Camaros, and other hot street iron, most of it only a couple of years old. I started reading car mags; Popular Hot Rodding (when Project X had an old school 427 and a Pontiac rear), Hiperformance Cars, , Car Craft, and Super Stock and Drag Illustrated. I did a year with Car and Driver when they built the Blue Maxi Camaro, then ditched them when they gave it away to some lucky reader; all I remember is that it wasn't me. Of course I was only 14 at the time but they shouldn't have held that against me. I was an avid street racer in my teens. My everyday car was a 56 Chevy 210 sedan, 283 (327-350 hp cam) with 5.13's and a 4 speed. I raced for money, Cokes, I would even race for fun!. I was almost arrested one night when one of my acquaintances bet me a Coke that I wouldn't pop a wheelie in front of the local taco stand on the main drag of my southern California desert town. Notice I said "acquaintance", he wasn't a friend, no friend would have encouraged me to do that. They knew me too well. I took a spin around the block after the wheelie episode and when I made it back to the taco stand I found out that one of our local CHP's had almost rolled his car pulling out of the diner next door trying to get me. Oh well, life's too short to worry about c**p like that. Although I am basically a drag racer at heart I have recently gotten interested in the nostalgia movement as it relates to recreating the Junior stockers and modified production cars that I remember from my youth. I have a small stock of tri-fives and muscle cars in the back 40 that haven't run in 20-30-40 years. Maybe it's time to pull a 57 210 sedan out and recreate the original Project X, the one that GM Performance should have been jailed for destroying (just my opinion ;-). I hope this is long enough. Later.
No Jim. That wasn't hard at all. It only took me a year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No carport queens please. A trailer is something you put broken cars on!
Welcome from Tulsa, OK. I followed project x as well. Remember when they yanked the rearend out when they popped the new drag chute they had attached to that Pontiac rear?
No, I don't remember that. I'm going to have to go back and find that one. Thanks for bringing that up. Richard
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