Soooo ..

I have this little Valiant wagon, I want it to be a semi-budget build and a drive to the track most often kind of thing ( thats the idea anyway)

I live awful close to the track and loading up the Belvedere to go 15 miles is a PITA

My closest /current race buddy has a fast S-10 truck that he gives me little to no heads up he is heading to the track for TNT and, well ..

I just go over and watch instead of fighting to load the car ( should buy another open trailer to ease the loading operation)

And, locally here , we have these vintage races where they do not allow anything with "BLING" to participate .. frankly, the tracks they run them at are well ---> short !

The car

Idea #1

would be a sleeper, just fix the basic flaws in the body and clean it up good

small block, 60% street / 40% strip kind of thing, its a short drive 15 miles to the local track

Make it nice enough to be cool / fun but, budget build

Idea #2

would be to (re)-create a car that to my knowledge never existed but, they ran Chebbies and Furd

Like ..

Or like ..

Tribute car painted like this maybe ?

( I have seen a picture of his Valiant sedan)

all this valiant talk, I keep seeing a ruby red valiant for some reason

How do you tell the difference between

Your girlfriend
Your wife

A hooker ?

Girlfriend says , are you done already ?

A hooker says, are you not done yet ?

And a wife says

Beige, I think I'll paint the ceiling beige

Nudder example

I'm seeing a Magnum JY 360 built to 380 HP specs,904,83/4 with 3.73-3.91's (or a 81/4 -cheaper)and paint it white,leave the dog dishes on it and go have fun with it.Should be an easy 12 second car that will run pump swill with no problem.

fit a 400 stroker & keep everything under the hood, make it a real sleeper.

Yep, I agree but can't make up my pea brain

I have another idea, I'll hold off for a bit while others

A B motor fits in there easier than a small block. Trans fits on the original ctossmember. (built a 62 Lancer) The Golden Lancer Drove it on the street and it ran 10:40 all day long nothing special . was a 470 with a set of sr heads and a small roller in it with 4:30 gear and 727 Should of kept it Its in Carlsbad Calif. now

360 with a 4 inch stroke, Eddy heads, 904 trans and appropriate converter and 3:55 or 4:10 gears in a 8 3/4 with some small 14 inch size stickys on some stock looking wheels

resized this so it didn't make the post so hard to read

I'm diggin idea #1. Keep steel wheels on it and the flat hood. Ive always thought it would be cool to have a fast wagon sleeper like that. And i would do it with a stroker small block so u could tell people...."Its just a 318"! But thats just me....

Yours is a little newer but AJ installed a V12 Allison back in the day, you have to at least equal or top that.

Sheldon

Keep it looking just like it does and put a turbo small block in it