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Factory drag racer, lightweight, and speed record setter in SS/F sold at auction for only 137,500
the only way to know what cool old race cars are still around is to look at the auction results.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1968-FORD-MUSTANG-428-CJ-R-FASTBACK-180019
Hot car rollers at the dragstrips in the 60's n 70s. When a Chevy engine was only good for starting a Hemi
These are rollers....the way most drag strips of the 60's-70's started the hot cars. Hot cars were started by pushing, no self starters....they would be pushed down a road that usually parallel the strip and turn around 180 degrees near the start line. No burn outs, just dry hops.
These rollers allowed the hot cars to be started in the pits to warm up and/or tune and some strips had them near the start so they didn't have to push start the cars.... OCIR, and Beech Bend Raceway in are good examples of that.
When the rollers were spinning the tires of the hot cars the cars would skate from side to side a little before they would fire up....that's why the guy is holding on to the cage to keep the car in one place! The rollers were usually powered by a SBC and it was a joke that it took a Chevy to start a Hemi....fun times. AND....notice the size of the fire extinguisher....and it's CO2....!
This is about in the middle of the hot pits....this dance was kinda intense....the push truck had to keep the race car from moving back, the crew member had to keep it in the center....the throttle man on the roller engine had to engage/disengage just at the right moment, and be ready to sprint to the race car with the gigantic fire bottle if the race car sneezed and caught fire.....
Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/331539540273153/
Dick Landy's Super Bee
68's didn't have hood scoops did they?
these are the 1st photos I've seen of Dick Landy's Super Bee
Not just a transmission mechanic, Don's GN is around the 9's in the 1/4
DRW Transmission Specialties, Inc. 10728 Kenney St. Ste. B, Santee, CA 92071
Office phone: (619) 258-4240
Mike's $150 dollar 37 Plymouth... still does 13's in the quarter
A friend of his bought this from a backyard in Alpine, and had the intent of a father / son project... so did the son until the marvel of sanding lost its charm.For 150 bucks it traded hands and was a 1/4 miler at Carlsbad, until that went extinct. Then it was eased into a cruiser engine, a 350... sorry, not a Mopar engine... for ease of gettign to and from car shows and 1/8 th mile drags at Qualcomm... where it made 8 passes due to the lack of participants... in about an hour.
The Hot Rod and Bike Expo was working with Racelegal.com, who are very thin on budget and don't advertise quite as much as you might like... especially when rumors pronounced the demise of Racelegal events due to budget shortfalls in the fall of '05, and all of '06. So today (April 14 '07) only a dozen bikes and cars were there racing before 2pm. Which is when the 67 Camaro took a turn into the K rails, and water barriers. That took a hour and a half to clean up, it took an hour for a flat bed to arrive.... not much reason to hurry when there weren't but a dozen racers waiting to resume racing.
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