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Title: Couldn’t help it
Post by: turbohunter on September 11, 2020, 10:25:23 AM

Sweet sweet music

https://youtu.be/CWXvvKMzA68

Title: Re: Couldn’t help it
Post by: BattlestarGalactic on September 11, 2020, 10:45:47 AM

Nice wake up call today!

Title: Re: Couldn’t help it
Post by: mike7570 on September 11, 2020, 11:35:24 AM

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Couldn’t help it
Post by: cjshaker on September 11, 2020, 12:37:13 PM

About the coolest car ever built! I got to see this icon race at the Ford meet in Columbus about 1980, if I recall correctly. Just like the Hot Rod magazine article, it left 2 black marks down the entire 1/4 mile, smoking the tires the whole way. I think it ran low 9's. F#%@* awesome is the only way to describe it!

Title: Re: Couldn’t help it
Post by: gregaba on September 12, 2020, 08:56:39 AM

I was lucky enough to watch these car's race in the 60's.
As a young teenager it was wild to watch them race and yes all of them smoked the tires the whole 1/4 mile.
Hard to believe it was so long ago.
Greg

Title: Re: Couldn’t help it
Post by: jayb on September 12, 2020, 02:41:14 PM

I saw that car in person, at Jim Barillaro's shop, in about 2005.  The engine setback and the doghouse around the SOHC was really cool.  And no transmission!  Clutch and direct drive.  A real piece of history...

Title: Re: Couldn’t help it
Post by: wowens on September 12, 2020, 06:47:08 PM

Some of the best times of my life were driving to the local strip, racing my daily driver and lusting after those cars. They still make me happy.
Shirl Greer was a local hero we all tried to hang with.

Title: Re: Couldn’t help it
Post by: cammerfe on September 12, 2020, 10:40:16 PM

I saw that car at Detroit. They were organized enough that the starting battery pack was carried in the back of a new Merc station wagon and the driver wore an aluminized suit with a full mask and breathing filters sticking out of both sides. As I remember, it was there to embarrass 'Color Me Gone' soon after that car went to stack injection sticking through the hood. C-M-G had not yet changed to the altered wheelbase. If memory serves, Chrisman's car was sponsored by the LA county Dealer Assn. when it ran at Detroit.

Seems almost like Yesterday.

KS

Title: Re: Couldn’t help it
Post by: shady on September 14, 2020, 04:53:40 PM

Watching that, I swear I could smell the exhaust.