'69 Mustang Project

[afret]

Good to see the stocker coming back together. It's also good to see that you and Thor are teaming up.

The car looks beautiful...and I'm sure it'll run good.

Mrs.-T and myself hope Kay is doing well too. Did you and he get your garages finished?

Wish we could come up and play along with y'all!

Hey you guys should hurry up and retire and think about moving up here.  You can make friends with critters like this guy:



The garages are done finally.  My garage is on the smaller side but it let me move a lot of junk in there and gave me a lot more room to move around in my attached garage. 

[Heo]

MMMMMMM  Moose steak

[machoneman]

Hey, I'd put him to work as a car polisher, at least! 

[afret]

Thor in line at Spokane getting used to a car with a slush box, 2 step, and radials.  It's weird that the track won't let you use their scale so we could find out if it's a natural A car going by the NHRA classification or really a B car.

[cjshaker]

It's weird that the track won't let you use their scale so we could find out if it's a natural A car going by the NHRA classification or really a B car.

What in the world is their reasoning for not letting you use the scales??  That just seems plain stupid. What else are scales for, especially at a drag strip?

[machoneman]

Yeah, why no scales unless it's broken. Very weird.

I'd hit as big truck stop, coal truck station (rare). a sand/gravel material yard or a grain elevator with scales.  Careful here as they usually weigh much heavier vehicles. We'd hit two scales and split the difference if they were close.   

[jayb]

Those 69 Shelby clones are badass!   

[XR7]

Sure is awesome like you said Jay, Earl and Kay did a great job building this car. I am very fortunate to get to drive it! It really gets a lot of attention at the track, everyone loves it. The track manager is kind of a dick at times, he said the scale is only for use at the Divisional race, I think it's bull...

Another racer offered to use his oval track scales (4 corner weights) and I have a friend that has those type scales also, he just lives 175 miles away, but I could use them. I have also weighed a car at the trucks stop, they charge 10 bucks which is cheaper than gas, but they are designed for 80 to 100 THOUSAND pound trucks, and I wonder how accurate they are at only 3200 or so. We did weigh Randy's Mustang 2 modified production car now with an all aluminum FE at a truck scale, it weighed 2126. They are supposed to be "certified"...

I'm still fighting the hook with the radial slicks, this track is no National event prepped track, got it to hook and launch great two times out of nine, spinning bad the others, so still have work to do. The track was marginal, other guys were spinning too and there were 3 wrecks... I sure had fun though, and brought it back in one piece! I am sure Kay has some more pictures, he was there helping me at the track along with a few friends, and took plenty of pictures.

[mike7570]

Looks like a natural A car?  where did you want to run it?

http://www.classracerinfo.com/Classification.aspx?VALUE=23155&TRANS=0

[afret]

Got some scales and weighed the car.  I think it's better as a B car.  The surprising thing is the Shelby clone with no ballast is still over  200lbs lighter than my red '69 which weighs about 3300lbs.  And the red car has only a roll bar and lighter Kirkey seats and the clone has the stock seats and a cage.

[afret]

A few more photos of Thor at Spokane a few weeks ago.

[turbohunter]

Damn that's beautiful.

[thatdarncat]

Looking sharp. I'll be watching the National Dragster, hoping you have some success.

[Heo]

Nice

[ec164]

Great looking car, appears when it didn't spin it worked well. Good Luck......................Al