Anyone like racing?

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My wheels at 76 years old. Catch me if you can lol.

 

[diego-ted]

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Is that a 47 Plymouth?

51 Buss Coup

 

[USMCDOC]

Anyone interested in the off road truck racing? There are two tracks that got a lot of tv coverage. One in Cal, and the other is Crandon Wi. My youngest son is currently rebuilding a truck that he’s going to run at Crandon.

 

[USMCDOC]

 

[diego-ted]

Is that a 47 Plymouth?

 

[butchlambert]

Found this while researching Porsche oil pumps.

Tom

As near as I can remember all the 911s from 1964 and up had dry sump oiling. All of them that I worked on were drysump.

 

[butchlambert]

I'm not a Mopar guy, though I have had a few, but an old high school bud has a 47 Coupe, not the business coupe" that is original,running, and no rust. It is very tempting, ,but I'm awful old for a major project.

 

[dburkart]

Roger,
Good looking ride you had there.

Dave

 

[Cecil S.]

Great stuff guys!

 

[jaytee]

I’ve lived most of my life in Wi, and used to go to the ASA races. I remember Tony Roper. I met a lot of drivers over the years. I used to race in the NASCAR Sportsman class at LaCrosse. 5/8 mile asphalt track. My last time on the track was June 2004 in my early 40’s then. I was leading my heat race and got spun and wrecked going into turn 1. Lots of fellow drivers did some quick bandage work on car and I got back out as the green flag waved the restart. I actually got back up to 5th in the remaining laps. Before the sportsman racing, I ran a lot of enduros. 150 cars trying to last 200 laps.

I've been making the trip up from SW Missouri to Oktoberfest for the past 25 years!! I absolutely love LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway. Got my motel reservations already for this years 'fest!!

 

[dgeesaman]

The Lotus were cool for sure, but I always like the development that came from such extreme designs like the Tyrell P34. Also, Group B rally cars were pretty much the scariest thing ever!

I don't know, those Lotus F1 cars were so weight reduced, they were flying death traps that flew against the ground.

Ken Tyrell made some pretty impressive stuff too.

Great video. 10 minutes of 60's F1 to drool over.

 

[Fast14riot]

I don't know, those Lotus F1 cars were so weight reduced, they were flying death traps that flew against the ground.

Ken Tyrell made some pretty impressive stuff too.

Great video. 10 minutes of 60's F1 to drool over.

I'll have to see if I can find it again, but I came across some original on board footage of testing the Tyrell P34. I'm talking about actual film movie cameras mounted all over the car, not these tiny go-pro digital or wind tunnel testing they do these days!

 

[BigKev]

Eldora Sprint Cars

Kings Royal, Sammy Swindell, Steve Kinser and my favorite Doug Wolfgang.

 

[LitLBoy]

Doug Was my favorite Too!

 

[JimT]

Two of my all-time favorite sport cars!

 

[butchlambert]

After returning from RVN around Christmas 1969, I got reacquainted with my 1966 Chevelle SS and really enjoying it. Then the 1974 gas shortage happened and hard time being able to get enough gas to commute to work. I sold my Chevelle to a good friend and bought a brand new Mustang II . . . the worst car I've ever owned. What a joke it was!

My direct neighbor (who was an MGB freak and liked Autocross racing) and I were discussing getting performance out of small engines as well as better gas mileage. He was going to take his MGB to a well known high end race engine shop and have his engine balanced and blue printed for a good deal of money and I bet him I could get more performance out of my wife's '72 Pinto by bolting on a turbocharger kit in my home's garage for 1/4th of what he would spend. So, it was a bet.

I purchased a turbocharger kit for my wife's Pinto and proceeded to do the installation myself. My goal was to get enough turbo pressure to produce somewhere near 300 hp. I figured I needed 26 lbs of pressure and to do that I needed a free flowing exhaust system AND, so as to not blow the head gasket, I had the head 0-ringed (the only outside shop work I had done). I used the original carburetor, but made a few little modifications to be able to get more fuel flow when needed to really take advantage of the turbo. Installed a free flowing muffler, but also added cutouts just under the engine near the wheel well for easy access. The increased HP was presenting an issue with the clutch slipping some, so I had to beef up the clutch plate springs and problem solved. Mission accomplished and it was more fun to drive than my Chevelle SS was (though I much preferred the sound of my old 396). As for the bet with my neighbor, he capitulated upon taking the Pinto out for a drive and smoked a Plymouth Duster. It was hilarious to see the faces of opposing drivers when they saw what this Pinto was doing. After winning the bet, I took the money and installed some racing suspension, mag wheels and a little white paint accent on the black car.

One day, I think in '76, when my brother was visiting, we went out to the local drag strip on a grudge race night to have some fun. Because my Pinto was just not set up for drag racing, my brother got in the trunk to provide traction with more weight on the back. We laugh a lot about that these days. As I were getting ready to stage at the staring line I was matched up with a '69 Road Runner that had a high-rise dual quad installed. As we sat there for the green light, he revved his engine (whap-pa-te-whap-whap) torquing his front end and me sitting there going (zzzznnnn, zzzzzznnnn) with my exhaust cutout uncorked. I didn't really think I was going to be competitive, just wanting to have some fun, given the street tires and racing suspension I had. Sure enough, on green the Road Runner jumps off the line out ahead and I'm just getting started and the turbo boost lag doesn't do well until there's some continued rpms (a lot of turbo lag in tubo's back then). So, I'm behind . . . until I hit second gear and off I go and caught up to him, then 3rd gear I actually pulled ahead for a moment but by the time we got to the 1/4 mile mark he edged me out. I don't remember the time now, except it was in the low 13's at well over 100 mph, and as I pulled off the track my opponent came over curious as to what I had under to hood. I stepped on the throttle a couple time (zzzznnnn, zzzzzznnnn) and told him it was the 4 cylinder that the car came with. When I popped the hood to take a look, the turbo was still glowing red hot in the dim night lighting. Oh . . . and got my brother out of the trunk and haven't we stopped laughing about that ever since.

On another occasion (one of many) late one night on a pretty empty freeway, I saw some headlights rapidly coming up from behind. As it started to go by me I saw that it was a Porch 911S and doing high speed. So, I thought I'd have some fun again. So, I floored it and we both kept going faster and faster (virtually, side by side). Eventually, the Porch didn't keep up. I don't know if he just couldn't keep up or what. I do know my Pinto's speedometer went up to 120 mph and I had it pegged all the way for a while as we went faster. Often, I would've liked to see more faces, iike on this and other drivers as they saw how a lowly Pinto was keeping up with their high priced high performance cars.

That Pinto was so much fun for a long time. Before I finally sold it, it would sit around and I just didn't drive it much as life got busy and it would get dirty sitting out. I'd clean it up to sell it, but then would drive it to make sure it ran properly and that would keep me from selling it earlier. Eventually I sold it, and now it's a distant memory of what a fun car it was.

26psi boost? chuckle chuckle chuckle, man I missed the funny part.

 

[Straightshooter1]

26psi boost? chuckle chuckle chuckle, man I missed then funny part.

Yup, 26psi. Even though the engine in it was the one manufactured in Germany, which had much more bearing surface (close to that of a V8's bearing surface) than the one produced in England, it's a wonder it held together. lol . . . what I did to that engine was like reloading cartridges with highly compressed powder charges.

 

[rockrat]

I was more into drag racing and a bit of street racing. My ride was a 73 formula firebird. Blew the origional engine and built a few more, trying to get more horsepower out of it. Last one used a 4 bolt main 455 block and ported '71 HO heads with a 1000 thermoquad. Ran pretty well. Really wanted a 71/72 GTO, but that was not to be.
Would like to find a rail job and put one of my Pontiac engines in it and just play with it. Still have a set of 455 SD connecting rods, new in the box, left over from my days back in the 70's.

 

[Cecil S.]

View attachment 1173882 View attachment 1172973 View attachment 1172973 Back in the day....

1100e model I had one . ROCKETSHIP!

 

[Devin Wiggett]

Great thread. Remember the 60s movie Grand Prix, good stuff