im 23 and have been racing for 6 years

53 years young racing since 1977 = 34 years= fun ,friends and wife.
Only 2 challengers all these years .
1 track championship
3 R.U
multiple top 10
MMW wins .

Ready for 2 new tracks to open reopen in STL .

Wow, some of you "senior citizens" are making me feel pretty good about myself. I'm 57 and started street racing in 1970. I gave that up in 1977 when my first son was born. I started bracket racing around 1990. I am NOT a E.T. chaser, but I am a R.T. chaser. It seems like the older I get, the more the good ones elude me.

I will be 63 Dec.4 and started street racing back in 67 also raced at dover drag strip wingdale, N.Y. and national speedway L.I. N.Y. stop in 70 got married raised a family,did the car show thing for awhile, and started racing again in 94 , and still doing it.

OK guys I don't post very offten but I like this one. I am 48 and been racing since 14. I started with a 1960 Chevy pick up running a 383 MoPar and 727. Since then I have run an FED an RED, a 71 Demon with a 440 and a whole string of others. I built my first engine at 12 in my bedroom (Mom loved that). I have chased points and TnTs. I started out racing on the street as have many others. Nothing to be proud of but it is what it is. My best pass in my RED was 8.15 at 165. Always raced BB MoPars. Now I am helping my wife run her 73 cuda that sports a 512/727 and my son with his 440/727 68 Bee and my daughter and her 73 Duster 440/727. Maybe some day I will get back into another car as I am currently building a 70 RR 500/727.
Awesome thread by the way.

Mike

I'll be 54 in Dec. Started street racing before I had a drivers license. I've been kind of hit and miss at the drag strip through the years. I've never had a 'race only' car or truck, I've always enjoyed driving it on the street too no matter how snotty it ran. As far as a picture goes here's one of a number of us Moparts members.Dave From left to right,Don, (Moparsforlife) Me in the hat, Kevin, (Maximuswedges) and Greg, (GregsDart)

Half century here. My lovely wife is still two years from that milestone. Have not been racing that long. Got into it when we got the 70 RR and realized there is a drag strip down here. It has been a great way to expand our base of friends. Too many people move here from Babylon into gated communities with a bunch of other state siders and complain that things here are not like in the states. Well, duh, what were you thinking? Go back to the mainland. The group of racers here is a very diverse but welcoming mix.

Here is a pic of Michelle and I at the track. She runs her 67 Land Rover too. Great thing about brackets. She has won money some nights. Nothing like dialing a 25.00 and watching the poor [Edited by Moparts - Family Friendly Site - Keep it clean] who has dialed a 13.00 sit at the lights for 12 seconds.



Oh, one of us in the Crucian Christmas Festival, too. That was a good time!!!! The local ladies loved my hair:

It;s great to find out about so many of you guy's and to add some pics helps everyone to actually see the people we have talked to for years. I will post a pic of my ugly mug soon. Keep it going .

I have been at it since 1974, had an aray of cars ranging from NHRA super stock, stockers, S/G, front engine dragster, even a few passes in a Pro Stock car...Enjoyed the last seven years the most running the NSS car with my son doing the driving nothing like spending time with your kids and wife. poppaj

Well just the same old story!!! Started at 15 running my dads 70 Charger at TNTs.It was a 4sp car and was a ball.Bob Reed lived about 2 miles down the road.It was all dowm hill from there!!! My first car that I got at 11 years old is my 68 Dart I still have it today.Mopars,Super stock and Pro Stock have been my life since I was a small kid.
Bob wanted me to build a SS car but their was this new thing called Street Car Racing(KOS).I was driving my Dart everyday to school and work.It had a 440 and was a fast street car.So in the spring of 96 went the the Rock to see if I had what it took!The KOS cars were the sickest cars in the land.I ran that race and had WOOD for days after,LOL.I was runner up to Andy Mayes.I was hooked.He had the record at 9.80s and I went 10.00s.Not bad for a cast crank 440 with some NOS.I got the bug and only missed one race in all the years of the KOS.Now keep in mind I was only 18 years old!!!
I gave the better half of my life working on that old black BI_TH.
The best the car ever went was 8.60s ,I always built everything on the car,EVERYTHING!!!
Started working on a Super Stock car with Bob for Ronnie Sox to drive and the Hemi fever set in!!!I made it a goal to have a SS Hemi before I was 30.I made the first pass in the Hemi at 28 years old.2 kinds of people,those that got Hemis and those that want a Hemi!!!!

The shop had blowed up with work around this time so I parked the Dart and started building and driving my cutomers cars.It keeped me busy but not the same as running my own car.I have owned about 60 cars over the years from Max Wedge to Hemis.The Dart is stiil in the corner!!I built the Dakota last year to make a come back but life has kicked me in the nuts all year.My mother passed at the age of 53 in March.She was in perfect health.Had a massive heart attack.I closed my shop up after 10 years.The 4 kids keep me running all over the place so racing took a back seat this year.Next year I'am coming out balls to the wall!!!


So for a half A$$ body man with a burning passion it has been a HELL of a ride so far!!!!
Thanks Lenny

Just turned 57 last week, started racing in 1974, took some time off to start a family, had 2 other mopar race cars along the way, returned to racing with the car I first raced in 1974.

43 here and have been racing off and on since 1990.

so judging from the age average.....I need to get more rascals and wheelchairs at the gates of Monster Mopar.

Just kidding guys, its great to see your still doing it

I am 65 and legally racing off and on since about 1962 or 63.

I will be 23 in December and my first race was the "High School Nationals" at Milan Dragway when I was 16 (I skipped home coming to race my grandfathers Demon). So, I have been racing street / strip A-bodies for 7 years. I will say that I am purely a hobby racer and didn't even get a chance to race this season. When I do get out it is once or twice a year. Hopefully next season I will be able to get to the track more and beat my best to date from 2010.

I am 66. Made my first pass down a dragstrip when I was 12 in my mother's 1955 Ford. That's 54 years racing although I haven't even started my '87 Ram drag truck in the past 4 years. Guess I' getting old but that is better than the alternative.