Well plans were for an easy winter

Well I only have one season on my 408 and my 422 is on my engine stand waiting 11 months now for Molnar rods. I took on a couple porting jobs to make some racing funds and finish up my 572 install in my blue duster. Well I got some extra work over the weekend. After running a nice 6.05 and a 6.02 in some crappy weather at Quaker City we got some costal type great air on Saturday. Well I was going to let my son drive on Sunday as he came over from Tiffin Ohio for the weekend. Well I put him in the seat so he could race both days. He dialed 5.97 and had a .0002 light but my duster launched high, hit second gear in the powerglide and come up and hit the rear bumper. At 330-350 foot out he featured it some and it came down, bounced and hit the wall broadside. Hit front to back I now have some bodywork to do over the winter. Steering wheel is now off too so something in the frontend got tweaked. My son Matt is fine and went on to race his buddy’s 5 second Camero later that day and Sunday.

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That sucks, glad the kid is ok.

$hit

Bummer John. Hope it isn't hurt too bad under the skin.

I am glad your son is ok! I don't even have my car fixed but I would send you 20$ if you let me.You have done so much for all on this site we appreciate it.

I really appreciate it but that’s not necessary. I have a set of heads almost done for a customer and an intake coming soon. I have slowly been getting rid of a few parts sitting around and will be listing a few more this week. This is mostly labor and I work pretty cheap. Lol. Thanks again but buy something for your beast and enjoy it.

Ouch....No wheelie bars gets you in trouble sometimes.....I stood mine up the other year and pedaled out of it enough to only smash the pan and lower control arms. Was lucky. Hope you can get it fixed without too much trouble.

man, that's too bad !
glad your boy is ok ! that's the main thing. tin can be fixed relatively easy, skin & bones, sometimes not so much !

Ouch!
I hate to hear that. Glad your son is OK.

Besides the body and paint, hopefully any mechanical is minor

Dang - agree with the rest of y'all, including some kind of donation deal as some way to honor a valued member.

Honestly I appreciate it but I would rather you guys buy something for your projects. A friend offered me a fender for 50.00 but I don’t think there’s one body part I can’t fix and reuse. I get easily bored on project so I can hope around this winter to keep me moving. We have a Halloween make up race at keystone the end of this month that if I got myself moving on it I could probably race at. I’ll have it in the shop tonight and get a good look at the front suspension tomorrow. Thanks again for the kind words and the offers but if I get to the point I can’t support my hobbies I’ll go fishing.

I like my stuff to be as nice as if it was a car show, but it might be fun to leave the scrapes for the next race...just to mess with the guy's head next to you...

Never thought of that. Lol.

Sorry man, that sucks. Thank god your son wasn’t hurt or it wasn’t worse.
I did the same thing to my old yellow duster yrs ago at Hampton dragway.
At the time it cost $2k to get the side fixed up.

Dang.

Glad he's ok 👍
Get the fast car done.

X2! Glad he didn't get hurt John!

Very good to hear your son is ok, car damage relatively light! 🤕

Damn sorry John but you guys will get ;er done and better than ever.

dang that sucks, cars can be fixed, glad your son was able to walk away an get back in the seat quickly!!

Ouch.....Glad the kid is ok....Car looks a little worse for wear....Fixable though, I don't think its going to just buff out.

Hate to see this! Glad your son didn't get hurt and the car isn't too bad. Sure sounds like it was on a pass though!!!

Well the frontend is all back together and suspension damage came to 30.00 for the plate that connects the strut to the steering rack. And I just happened to have that part and have been carrying it in two different car trailers for years. The one on the passenger side is the one that got bent bad. I have the toe set very close but I may have to tweek it a hair or two before I put the frontend back on. We have a makeup Halloween race at keystone I may try to make next weekend

if you straightened that piece, then welded a vertical piece on the bottom, say 1 1/2"[ish] x ?? long [tapered on each end] x ?? thickness of material, would that strengthen that piece enough so it wouldn't happen again ?
i know that plate is only $30.00, but i'm just looking at the damage, and thinking of how to prevent something like that from happening in the future.
i guess i just like to overbuild proven parts that realistically don't need to be.

Ya my buddy owns a chassis shop and recommended these which I may do as a winter project. I had one spare and would like to get some hits in this year so it’s good to go for now.


https://www.advancedchassisllc.net/product-p/ack-48.htm

Here’s a video that Quaker City posted up. The door opening up was my sons fault.


https://m.facebook.com/quakercitymotorsportspark/

Nice wheelie. I commend him for keeping his foot in it. You have to have the ability or sense to know if the car is going strait when it is in the air.

Ya my kid did a pretty good job. Frontend is all finished up and I took the rear bumper off to start on it today

That sucks, man. Glad your son is okay, and hopefully overall damage is nothing super expensive.