Hey gang... Great site, already lurked here a bunch, between projects. BG: Lions Drags, Irwindale Raceway, Irwindale canals, Marine stadium Long beach, AVRW, OCIR and Ascot. Plus a lot of street racing in the SoBay and Valley everthing from street tires to trailer queens- up all night making and taking money. Cut my teeth at Hydrohead in Lawndale. If you have ever hurt a Traco or Donovan block it was probably fixed by us. Last hot rod (car) was a 62 Falcon, 12:1 hipo rod motor, Mullins head, biggest stick Engle made, big plate-unit on it (home made there was only one NoS uint then, reworked 4500 stall vega/opel converter forget..., A1 C4, narrowed 8.75" morpar axle, slapper bars, slghtly widened rear wells so the lil Firestones would tuck in with the springs moved inboard. Bouta 10.99 car off the bottle, jsut a god awful handfull. Nicknamed it Scary Fast, more scary than anything. Total sleeper and great for shutting down big mouths with fast 1980's bikes et. al.... Anywho long life short I'll be lurking here getting ideas for a new rod. Falcon Gasser pretty much nailed it with his lil 'coon. I'm looking to do just that but with plates cuz I cant find a turn-key so far I like. I may not post much but I will be gleaning your site for ideas and info and it's already panned out some awesome stuff and for that I VERY MUCH thank you. So expect a PM from time to time if I see some of yours I like, want or have a ? about. OK? Wonderful place to come and kick the tires and light the fires boys, good stuff keep it comnig. Very truly yours in SPEED, Kevin.
Welcome aboard Kevin. Gee with all your knowledge and back ground it's a shame you are here just to look...
Here's a few old school pics of pics from before the web: 1- Ascot Super-stocker I wrenched on. 2- Me and the Man back in '89. 3- Top- 70 Falcon turn-burner. 302, C4, a blast getting on freeways and in the canyons. Bottom- 62 Futura rod I was thrashing on. We had a fire (next door), then got looted. Kept my pics in the workshop like an idiot so- GONE. 4- Lil Nova street rod we campaigned. 10.70ET, street tires, to the bumper exhaust, Jumbo Racing small block. Good big end speed. Took a lot of $ home from the Valley with her. 5/6/7- Another shot of the 'coon with a Hooker header and home-made deep sump pan. I wish I had some finished shots but...as previously mentioned...note the factory manual, first fitting of the hi-po 289. Wish I had a shot of the home-made NoS unit...burned a lot of plugs getting it right lol. Shot 5 check the old ET Bracket Finals T-shirt and Thomas Dolby was in style then too...lol. I have a line on a new rod to bring home and thrash on so...fingers crossed and it looks very promising
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