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Re: Does the insanity ever stop??
[Re: tboomer]
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02/24/12 09:12 AM
02/24/12 09:12 AM
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smokinwoody
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I Live Here
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Maybe winter is getting to me and I have too much time to think...My Victors are still in the shop yet and I told Radar to go ahead and knock yourself out!! I have the heads paid for and enough cash to pay for the porting job. Now add another 1200.00 for rockers,etc. and it really adds up fast!! Fast forward to summer and they are talking 5.00 a gallon gas...  I am really thinking strongly about pursuing some other hobby...Anyone else feel this way? Ted 
E85 Ted...
thats why we are Gearheads..once in the system it never gets out..it may stay dormant for awhile, but as soon as you see a Hotrod..BAM!!
and besides, what else are you going to do...I have all the other hobbies that were costly, those are dormant for now...the car is top priority until its finished...
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v506/s...mview=slideshow
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Re: Does the insanity ever stop??
[Re: Dabee]
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02/24/12 10:45 AM
02/24/12 10:45 AM
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Chicken coop
dustergirl340
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I started out like most of you probably did in a 14/13 second car. I wanted to go faster and kept getting faster cars until I was in the high 7 second car. Then one day a good racing buddy said to me, “Some of guys were talking the other day about you and we came to the conclusion that you were having a whole lot more fun racing when you were running the 11 second car”. You know what they were right. Guess which car I’m racing now? That’s right; I parked the high 7 second car, pulled the 11 second car out of storage, put it on a weight reduction program, put a new engine and transmission in it, got it in to the 10s and am having a blast racing again. I race trophy class at the local out law track eight miles from my house. Test & Tune is $15 and that gets you into the trophy class. I race every Friday and Saturday, get as many passes as I want, burn E-85 to save on racing fuel. I spend around $80 a weekend to race two days. The maintenance cost on the 10 second car is a whole lot less than maintaining the high seven second car. I still travel to some of the MOPAR races. Quit racing, no way I’m 67 years old in good health and having a blast.
It's stories like these that make me glad I just have a slow but reliable street car. I'm still having a ton of fun. 
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Re: Does the insanity ever stop??
[Re: tboomer]
#1184740
02/24/12 10:59 AM
02/24/12 10:59 AM
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Posts: 4,448
Phoenix, AZ
MoparBilly
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In November '08 I took 2 cars to Vegas and entered both in SuperStreet at the NHRA Divisional, one had a borrowed motor I couldn't afford to break, and my buddy put the other in the wall.
So, I quit chasing the NHRA trail, and haven't raced a Divisional or National since.
Since then I sold a 70 Challenger RT that had been sitting forever, (that resto Project that was always 2nd to the hotrods). I also got rid of a 70 Cuda project I was never going to finish.
So, I'm done with this crap, right? Wrong...
I turned the 62 Valiant that hit the wall back into a Street/strip car, and drove it 1250 miles on Drag Week 2011.
I finally bought an enclosed trailer.
I bought the aluminum Indy Maxx lowdeck, that I couldn't afford to break
I traded my brother out of his 67 440 powered Belvedere street car that can be driven anywhere and run 12's on motor and 11's on juice.
I bought a 69 Dart project, complete with a 408 w eddie heads and a sixpack.
My 70 Challenger race car is scheduled to get a strut front-end.
So...no, the insanity never stops!! Why my wife still loves me, I will never understand that either...
"Livin' in a powder keg and givin' off sparks"
4 Street cars, 5 Race engines
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Re: Does the insanity ever stop??
[Re: tboomer]
#1184741
02/24/12 11:28 AM
02/24/12 11:28 AM
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Posts: 12,339
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smokinwoody
I Live Here
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I Live Here
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Hey,Jeff! Hows Tameless coming along? Isn't it strange how some of us are never happy with what we have? There is no way I would sell my car,it crossed my mind a few times but I came to my senses. From my 1/8th mile times last fall,It should have ran low 10.30s...Now I want as close to a 10.0 as I can! I also like what another racer said....Someday all we will have is the memerories...Man...That hit me right there!! Some of the best times we have had in the last 12 years have been with freinds and family at the track! 
been working on Tameless every day..the rear suspension is done...been working on the floor pans..for a car thats just about 50 years old, these are solid...there's no rust in the car..
I know what you mean about friends and family at the races...its something you only do once in a lifetime...better to have said you tried and did it and enjoyed it at any level..after all we aren't getting any younger..
heres the rear and a link to some new pics..
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v506/s...mview=slideshow
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Re: Does the insanity ever stop??
[Re: Palindrome Cuda]
#1184742
02/24/12 09:27 PM
02/24/12 09:27 PM
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new jersey usa
11secdart
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No, I`ve been racing over 25 years and can`t wait for opening day! I was getting a little frustrated a few years ago with not going rounds and I felt I wasn`t competitive when the raised the low end of Heavy/Pro to 9.00. So I slowed the car down to run 11.50s, put on DOT front tires and QTPs on the rear now I am very competitive being one of the fastest cars in the class, I am going rounds and have had more Eliminator Wins since doing so, I`m having a blast!
68 Dart 410 / 904
92 D150 original owner
21 Ram 1500 Quad Cab, Big Horn , Hemi ,4x4
23 Audi Q5
16 Honda HRV
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Re: Does the insanity ever stop??
[Re: 11secdart]
#1184743
02/24/12 11:03 PM
02/24/12 11:03 PM
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You can't take it with you when go kaput so don't worry be happy and build what you can afford and leave it at that.
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Re: Does the insanity ever stop??
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02/25/12 09:34 AM
02/25/12 09:34 AM
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Worst Weather USA
493_DART
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Ted--relax--you have the iowa cabin fever--just like me. I have my headers on the living room couch . (no wife = i can do this) you got your plan--you know the cost of going to Victors...... Its done -------so shut up , put it back together and ill see ya in the lanes in April !!  If you need some $$ , sell off some of the 231 guns you own !  
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Re: Does the insanity ever stop??
[Re: viperblue72]
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02/27/12 10:13 PM
02/27/12 10:13 PM
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Posts: 1,165
Central Ohio, USA
Bigbeep
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super stock
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Posts: 1,165
Central Ohio, USA
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 bama wants you driving an electric car. 
Saw a sticker at the Mopower swap meet last weekend the read,
My hemi burns the gas your stupid hybrid saves!
I laughed out loud when reading it.
Beep
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