A few people have asked so I figure I'd share on the board. We all have to take up the slack with MoparBilly unable to tell stories anymore.

I haven’t made a pass down a dragstrip in something like 15 years. What better way to get back into it than street racing on Woodward with the Plymouth I bought earlier this year??

Quick background on the car, it's a '68 Fury III with a 10.5:1 446, ported 906's, 590 mopar cam, 850 double pumper, headers, 3.5" exhaust with flowmasters, 4.30 gears, a reverse manual valve body on the column, stock springs, a snubber, and 295/65/15 ET Street Radials. It's gone 12.70's before and usually hooks pretty good on the street.

Just getting up to tech on Friday was rough. I spent a couple nights a week over the month of July fixing oil leaks, putting Wilwood disc brakes on it, replaced the driveshaft and added 1350 u-joints, the oil pan, put a deeper trans pan on it, and other random maintenance stuff.

The car has been fine for months and then randomly ate an ignition rotor in traffic on M14. It then ate two more (one my fault, the other two still TBD), after frantic parts store runs and even getting a ride from a complete stranger to buy the last ones Advance Auto had in stock. We traced the problem to the distributor after using lifelines to multiple friends. A good friend came up to rescue us at 8 mile and Beech Daly in a shady gas station parking lot. We put together one “good” distributor between two sketchy ones. I can’t thank him enough for saving me, I wouldn’t have made tech that night and been able to race without him!

Rolled in with 45 minutes to spare and it seemed to be acting right again, that alone seemed like a victory!