Just Thinking Of The OLD Days
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When I was reading Dizuster cooking post of the 2 weeks before the race fixing the car.. made me laugh a bit.. back when I was YOUNG I remember it was always about Wednesday when my buddies would think about going to Detroit Dragway and wondered if I was going.. MANY times I would be working on the car(street car back then, 62 Dodge Dart) on till 12 or 1 in the morning on Thursday and Friday to get it all ready to head out in the Saturday morning getting a few hours of sleep before leaving.. still had to work on Thursday and Friday and go to school... I use to think it was a great time........ that was back then.. now days it takes longer to be ready
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I grew up working in the old school NY gas stations, which were more or less night time community meet centers. I remember plenty in nights working on my cars or others until 1,2,3 in the morning. The good old days...
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Remember taking the 65 out with the straight axle under it.They wanted me to run altered.Made a few passes and watched the rest of the night.No helmets.harness etc.Back ten it was pretty simple.Probally dangerous also.Rocky
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It was 1976 and my job kept me out of town Monday through Friday. I had bought a 1970 442 w30 with spun bearings for my wife's driver. Needless to say it took me several weekends to get it fixed and back together. We were planning a trip to the car craft street machine nationials and we intended to take the Olds as my driver was a Swinger with a 4 speed and 3.91 gear with our other car being an A12 bee. Neither one being a particularly good road car I feverishly worked on the Olds to get it ready for the deadline. I fired it up Sunday night the week before we needed to leave and it ran good and the cam broke in fine but oil pressure was low. I had installed a new oil pump and there had been two relief springs in the box with it. I had read the instructions and decided on the one spring. I was wrong, so here we were needing to leave on Friday and I'm going out of town on Monday. All week my head is spinning trying to figure out what to do. I finally decide if we get home at a reasonable time on Friday i will pull the pan if possible and change the spring. My Olds buddy says it will fix it. So on Friday at 6.00 in the afternoon I tackle it. After doing everything possible except pulling the engine, at 3:00 in the morning I fired it and oil pressure was great. I cleaned up, loaded the car and we were Tulsa bound. Adrenaline wore off in about 50 miles so the wife took over. I gave her instructions to watch the oil pressure and the temperature and I ameditely fell asleep. She woke me outside Oklahoma city needing directions. I woke up and looked at the speedometer and it was setting on 90. I said your running 90? She said yea she had to slow down as she was coming into Oklahoma City. Must have not hurt it as we drove the wheels off it for a couple years and I gave it to my brother when we got a new car.
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It was 1976 and my job kept me out of town Monday through Friday. I had bought a 1970 442 w30 with spun bearings for my wife's driver. Needless to say it took me several weekends to get it fixed and back together. We were planning a trip to the car craft street machine nationials and we intended to take the Olds as my driver was a Swinger with a 4 speed and 3.91 gear with our other car being an A12 bee. Neither one being a particularly good road car I feverishly worked on the Olds to get it ready for the deadline. I fired it up Sunday night the week before we needed to leave and it ran good and the cam broke in fine but oil pressure was low. I had installed a new oil pump and there had been two relief springs in the box with it. I had read the instructions and decided on the one spring. I was wrong, so here we were needing to leave on Friday and I'm going out of town on Monday. All week my head is spinning trying to figure out what to do. I finally decide if we get home at a reasonable time on Friday i will pull the pan if possible and change the spring. My Olds buddy says it will fix it. So on Friday at 6.00 in the afternoon I tackle it. After doing everything possible except pulling the engine, at 3:00 in the morning I fired it and oil pressure was great. I cleaned up, loaded the car and we were Tulsa bound. Adrenaline wore off in about 50 miles so the wife took over. I gave her instructions to watch the oil pressure and the temperature and I ameditely fell asleep. She woke me outside Oklahoma city needing directions. I woke up and looked at the speedometer and it was setting on 90. I said your running 90? She said yea she had to slow down as she was coming into Oklahoma City. Must have not hurt it as we drove the wheels off it for a couple years and I gave it to my brother when we got a new car. I bought a 70 442 w-30 4 speed when I came home from Nam.. was a real quick car with a little work... it was right out of the GM tech center that some hot shot owned EDIT was a real early build.. still had the vent windows
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Thanks... I did get shot up 3 times.. when I finally got home my brother crashed my Nova so I had to look for a car.. my buddy told me about the 442 and where it came from and I bought it... raced it in Alabama on 1/8mile tracks.. was the quickest car on Fort Bening and I sold it down there and picked up a real nice 69 Dart GT
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I had the flip top desk with the ink well holder (no thats not a cup holder to the younger group) but it didnt look just like those desk
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Was walking the dog and happened to see this out by the street. I remember sitting at those exact seats in elementary school. Yeah, like kids these days would know what an inkwell is. They removed cursive (script) writing from schools in my area. Seems like the art of penmanship is going away.
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I remember my grandmother doing Caligraphy freehand. We have lot porters that park the cars. I can't even read the parking spot they write on the tags, and it's only 1 letter with a 2 digit number.
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I remember my grandmother doing Caligraphy freehand. We have lot porters that park the cars. I can't even read the parking spot they write on the tags, and it's only 1 letter with a 2 digit number. I had to do freehand calligraphy in grade school. We also had to use ink, write cursive and got graded on it. Today, not so much. I'm told they are not teaching cursive, printing only. I have no idea why.
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Pretty much why I'm putting a bench seat and back seat in my car. I pulled the race 5-speed and clutch,pulled the spool,changed to a street HEMI pan,put 4 new street tires on,and I'm running tailpipes out to the bumper. My wife and I were talking about when I used to have a lot more fun when my car was slower and I was chasing trophies instead of lower ET's. So I'm going back to racing just for the pure fun of collecting trophies and see if I can bring the fun back when Dragway 42 re-opens in the spring. Back in the 80's I would just throw a cooler and an old pair of slicks in the trunk and change at the track. It will be nice to get back to basics Gus
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A few years ago I was getting ready to go to Norwalk and freshened up the engine and made a couple changes.. went to fire it up on Thursday and it had low oil pressure so I started tearing it down.. seen that when I changed over to a gear drive it didnt cover the front oil galleys so I had to pull the engine and pull it all down so I could clean it after drilling and tapping the end of the galley.. had it all done and back in the car and running that same day and loaded in the trailer so I could head out in the morning.. sure was busting butt
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When I was in my mid 20's I had a 340 duster that would eat 904 high gear clutches on a regular basis. Went to a party on a Thursday night, and gave someone a (sober) ride in the car. Sure as hell ate up the high gear clutch and started slipping.
Unfortunately this was at about 1am the night before we were leaving for a NSCA race in Cordova, Il. Went home, pulled the car on the trailer, and dug out enough parts to rebuild the trans.
Drove 7 hours to get there, and never even started the car up. Just pushed it off the trailer, and ripped the trans out. For those of you who've never been to Cordova, the track sits right on the Missisippi between Illinois and Iowa. One of the most miserable humid experiances of my life.
Got the trans out, rebuilt the trans in the pits, and got it back in for Saturday Qualifying. Ended up winning the race on Sunday!!! Can't believe I'd do something like that now... lol
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