Re: Who got you started?
[Re: Dartwizer]
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01/01/10 10:23 PM
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My son (Wild Bill) got me me into this last year. I was 57 years old. I don't know if that makes me the oldest rookie but it's got to be close. Even my granddaughter Taylor (Wild Thing) was driving two years before I started.
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Re: Who got you started?
[Re: hemicop]
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01/02/10 06:08 AM
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chryco
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I guess hanging around my Dad working on the Family car.Dad HATED Dragracing which is probably what attracted me even more ! Chryco
Gas is fer washin' parts ....Alky`s fer drinkin' ...Nitro`s fer Racin'!
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Re: Who got you started?
[Re: Dart1031]
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01/02/10 09:19 AM
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My father. Some of my earliest childhood memories consist of me running around the pits at Dragway 42 playing around my dad's homebuilt open trailer. He also taught me that you could race and win with ANY vehicle. He won a lot rounds and a little money racing slow rusty heaps.
Ron H. "Just when you think you have all of the answers...I change the questions!" "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
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Re: Who got you started?
[Re: Frito]
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01/02/10 10:48 AM
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Dave in his Georgia shop several years ago!!
Go Oldsmobile
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Re: Who got you started?
[Re: Defbob]
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01/02/10 01:17 PM
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In a roundabout way I guess it was a neighbour. There were a couple of American factories local to where I live, Cummins and Torrington bearings (Cummins engines is still here and within 1/4 mile of my house, Torringtons has sadly closed).The US workers used to bring cars over and a neighbour who worked at torringtons used to buy them. To me, a kid growing up on a council estate, they were the greatest vehicles ever compared to the british cars of the day. Huge, finned and with the greatest sounding motors I'd ever heard. Mach 1 mustangs, Big 60's Buicks, Fairlanes, Caprices. Awesome. Fast forward 20 years to my first trip to a RWYB meet Wow! muscle cars, rods, rails and v8 engines and I got to go down the track in my daily driver!. Man I was hooked and I've never looked back. This year will be our 24th season.
'74 Challenger..9.46 @ 145.9 1/4, 6.001 @ 118 1/8 so far. 4023lb !!! # N/A, Marsh performance 655ci, Indy Maxx, T/R, Indy 600-13 X's, Street legal, pump gas, full interior, Cal-Tracs, mufflers, 3:73's and real 10.5 radials. 9.51 @ 142.4 1/4, 6.003 @ 114 1/8 with our old mule KB, 572-13, 580 wedge. RHD '68 Barracuda Fastback 323ci street/strip. Best ET 13.88 @ 99.03
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Re: Who got you started?
[Re: Tig]
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01/02/10 01:56 PM
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addiction to speed came from my father as a HD mechanic/flat track racer/tuner. I started flat tracking motorcycles across the field from Milan dragway at Victory park around 1975-6. spent the next 12 years racing flat track motorcycles, a few professionally. unfortunately my father had no interest in cars and I was on my own for my next speed addiction. He wasn't a highly educated guy but when it cam to HD engines he was one of the best and built some of the fastest XR750's in the country. Then had a stroke in 1994 and was disabled and never saw me drag race before he died in 2008. Mopars? originally have to blame it on my next door neighbor's son who was a couple years older and had a couple 69 Dart street cars. We had another neighbor who had a 71 Duster out back that I finally talked into selling me for my first car. Messed around with the leaning tower of power for a year or so, headers, shift kit, 8 3/4, etc. Swapped it out for a 340/727/3.91 and started bracket racing while in college at US131. Had a "friend" wreck it and switched the drivetrain into a 67 vert Barracuda. The track didn't like the lack of roll bar/cage with it running low 13's and respecting it's worth as an original sold it to a friend to "build" a race car. There were a few more Mopar street cars in there along the way but nothing of significance. Well the first attempt at a home built chassis car never got finished, 83 Charger with Alston kit. Then bought a 65 Dart, tubbed it, added a 12 point, had it pretty much rolling but ended up selling it because of the next opportunity. Opportunity? coworker and fellow SC/SG racer "Captain BS" and board member SC304 helped get me in over my head with my sig car. Steady progress down to 8.0 resulted in the quest for 7's "on a budget" and the parting out and selling off of that engine to build a Predator engine. Being stubborn and old school it has to be NA, and has been two years in the build so far.... blah blah blah...
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Re: Who got you started?
[Re: Tig]
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01/02/10 02:38 PM
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galen
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As a kid I put a REO engine on a tricycle, I then put a 5 hp briggs on a radio flyer, steering with the tongue(Man that hurt) It went down hill from there. 100 hodaka on a mini bike frame. Gokarts Mac 101s. In high school, Kawasaki 750 2 stroke triple, Ported, chambers, left the line at 12500 rpm. Back tire screwed to rim. Ran it at kcir grudge night in the mid 70s. Bought a new Harley in 76, had it 2 weeks tore it down. Got a little carried away,So much compression dad had to tow me down the street to start it, but when it ran it ran good!! got tired of hearing the 900 kawasaki guys bragging. Moved to Albuquerque, built a 67gtx 440 4speed. Cant remember the name of the dragstrip down there(old age). If it had an engine I raced it. Cops watched me, neighbors hated me. I was born that way. Now that the kids are grown I am back. Is this normal or is something bad wrong with me?
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Re: Who got you started?
[Re: galen]
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01/02/10 02:57 PM
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in the early 80s down the block where two brothers frank and steve my first ride was franks 71 roadrunner left a immpression on me for the rest of my life we drive plymouths not dodges seen him 10 years ago drove by the the duster to my old neigthber hood the look on his face was priceless
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Re: Who got you started?
[Re: 72demon416]
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01/03/10 12:38 AM
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My dad did (76dart) he was into old mopars and that was all it took. thanks dad!!!!!
76 dart 318 runs 12.9o @ 103 mph with 1.78 60ft.
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