there are pics of mike duke's car on the link I posted

So am I!!!! But that does not take away from the fact taht those are some of the most entertaining cars to go down the track.

I agree

This tread reflects why I am completely burnt out on KOS talk.

50% of the cars pictured in this thread were never seen at a KOS race. Another 25% were only at one or two races the 10 years the series was ran.

Every year KOS was available to be ran people from all over promised to come. Sponsors were found and were let down due to poor car counts. A huge car count in a class was considered an 8 car feild. A good car count was 4.

I spent a lot of money in this. For 2005 I bought a new trailer and put every accessory I could find a need for in the trailer. Jumped through a whole lot of hoops and had the car really coming around. All this to find at the end of the 5' season KOS was dead.

Went to Memphis to an NMCA race and really had everything going my way. The car was absolutely flying. Nothing could go wrong we thought. Final round of qualifying we were planning on hitting both stages. The car ran a 5.07 in the eighth after a close call with the wall and was still pulling hard on the big end. The car nosed over and burnt pistons everywhere. Extreme amounts of timing pulled and an extremely lean tuneup in the second stage. We found the tuneups were dead on. A belt had came off in the bleach box and we had no idea it had taken the power to the water pump and fans with it. After a long staging process from the Turbo car in the other lane despite frigid air temps the engine simply overheated so bad it stuck some rings and pulled the whole dome off one piston.

I had just burried my dear friend THE KOS SERIES. And now looked like a complete engine to go with. I came home salvaged the parts and sold everything to do with nitrous oxide I owned. Took the alternater that the bearings stuck in causing the belt failure and pitched it in the trash. Built a high winding NA engine and thought I could survive. It has never been the same.

For 10 years I spent at least $30,000 a year racing KOS or other heads up series'. Now it is time to build a new house. Wish I could get all that money back. Too bad the welders and tubing fitters and machines I own can't build that house. They can a new racecar. A new race car I don't need but I have a good one if I can ever see my way through building this house. Then maybe make another serious effort in some heads up series. Would be nice now that my kids are older and can help out to go race a few Mopars. Maybe next year. Maybe someone else with the drive to do this will want to buy me out. I have seen many who thought they had that kind of drive but quickly petered out.

Leon

30,000, 25 of it was a dollar at a time

Now that is funny!
I'am with Leon,It was funny when the top two cars in EZ could outrun half the feild in SS.

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For 10 years I spent at least $30,000 a year racing KOS or other heads up series'.

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Do you want a cookie?
All I have is moon pies and cow pies.
It's the rich guys like you that run the series away. It's who ever spends the most money in any heads up series. You spent all of that coin and wasn't competetive, so how do you expect the average guy on a budget to compete. Any small tire street car or street car period around this country is considered a KOS car in my opinion, wheather they ran or planed on running an event. So don't knock the average working man for considering their pride and joy that they work on every bit as much as you, their own KOS car.
My

Carry on;
More pics please

Cowl Hood

pro sport back in the day (mark hughs)

any reason why you guys used cowl hoods over the sixpack hoods

Im not an expert but its my understanding that they actually work that much better.... but I would love to hear everyones opinion