Oh boy........not a great memory.........and unfortunately , I have a great memory.
Champion Auto stores season finals at Brainerd International Raceway in 1990.
1966 Mercury Cyclone with a 1970 429 SCJ , auto and 4.11's
Street tires.
Judy was driving ( she is a stone killer on the tree ) and she spun them for an easy 75 feet.
It hooked in third and twisted the drive shaft in half at just past half track.
That shelled the transmission case and tranny fluid hit the headers putting up a smoke screen that would make James Bond proud.
I couldn't tell if she was on the wheels or on the roof.
She did the right thing.......got the car out of the groove and coasted to a stop.
But we were like the third set of cars in the first time trial session.
Pretty good oil down.
45 minute delay.
As you can well imaging , we made no friends that day.
It was a street car till that day.
Next came the roll bar , sub frame connectors and pretty good chunks of my income going into the car every year.
For the next eight years , we raced it a lot and had some success for most of the time......running mostly at Grove Creek ....... the local 1/8th mile.
It had to be love.
Nothing else explains why when she won the season points deal and it paid 500.00 , we were tickled.
That was the year I put 2,500.00 into the rear end and front suspension.
But the joy of a good working race car is worth every penny.
I'm not sure if she will pedal the new car or not.
She'll give it a try , but it will be substantially quicker than the Cyclone was.
And if she is afraid of it , I will have to learn how to cut a light.