Burnout video!

[65er]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRr8LVmNSHE

Ah well, not so much a burn out as a wheel hop, lol.  Had some fun at the dragstrip and have decided to leave the Galaxie alone and go for a full-on racecar.  It'll be a couple years since I'll have to like, buy a house and stuff first.  It's been a good challenge building the Galaxie at work on the weekends, then driving it during the week but I'll have to have my own garage for the next project.  I won't be concerned about an overdrive tranny, air conditioning, or a whole lot of other things on the race car!

Almost forgot the timeslip.  Keep in mind traction problems and newbie driver.  The engine was definitely dishing it out!

[ScotiaFE]

A race car eh.
Clutch or converter. That's real question now.
Good Stuff Wade.

[BruceS]

Wade, what type of racecar are you thinking about?  Another Galaxie? 

Bruce

[65er]

I'm thinking nostalgia super stock.  The car depends on what I run into when shopping time comes around.  Probably a Ford but could end up with anything.  Probably will run an automatic.

[Drew Pojedinec]

Wade,
There is a car near me that'd make a great candidate:
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/4628792172.html

[machoneman]

Wade,
There is a car near me that'd make a great candidate:
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/4628792172.html

Great choice, especially if you can make it like this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBRlV-XpCF8

[Drew Pojedinec]

found another one wade:
http://macon.craigslist.org/cto/4637621271.html

for this price, cut it up, tub it, etc make it a track warrior.  thank god I'm offshore and don't have a bigger shop, I'd be bringing all the strays home.

[machoneman]

My bro' found this video by accident on YouTube. Amazingly, it's me driving our SBF Boss 302  injected gas dragster "UnderDog" at Rockford Dragway in the summer of 1978!

After the 1st vid of a Duster, it's the second clip leaving the line (kinda' of a slow 0-60' btw). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AHwTfQJLr8

We had no idea this vid was take nor survived all these years later....yahoo! The car was fun to drive but the full Simpson firesuit and face mask was a bear in hot weather, for sure!   

[65er]

Cool stuff Bob and Drew!

Still a long ways off but I've been keeping an eye out for later and already have a line on a few local cars in case they might still be around when I'm ready to do something.
Unfortunately I've also checked into some prices and got a pretty good case of sticker shock!  May end up buying someone's old junk ready to run or repair or might even abandon the whole idea. Only time will tell where we end up.  Got other things going on now and coming up over the next couple of years that promise to keep the race car project on the back burner.

[Drew Pojedinec]

well, it's a good idea anyway.
I've seen far too many people want their daily driver to be a terror at the track and all they end up with is something that doesn't go as fast at the track as they'd like, and now it is crap to drive on the street.

Sadly both of my local tracks closed down this month.... doh!  (they'll be back at some point)
If I wanted to make a cheap racecar, I'd probably just spend $1000 on a 70's F100.
Mine weights 3800lbs, and I could cut a ton out of it.  Plenty of room under the hood, lottsa room for fat tires...  parts are cheap, and if I put it in the wall, ohh well... it's a truck, there are still a hundred thousand more out there and plenty that are being parted out every day.