Clevor Circle Track Torino

[410bruce]

Hey guys! Just thought I'd share a short heat race video from 1988 at my home track of Redwood Acres Raceway. It's a 3/8-mile oval.
Number 55 1973 Torino we shortened a few inches as allowed per the rules. 2 barrel carburetor rule. I was on the pit crew and helped build the car. Tim Standifer is the driver and friend. His dad Gary was my boss at S&S Plating in Arcata CA. at the time. Tim was the plater.
We won the track championship with this car 2 times and set a lap record with it. The only Ford in the class at the time.
Enjoy.   
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjCOCZtrsPc

[410bruce]

I should mention that the engine was of course a 351 Windsor block with 2V Cleveland heads. We started with the closed chamber Australian 2V heads, but they got banned because they didn't have a USA casting number. But they were still as much of a Ford head as the American version.
We built a 408 cubic inch stroker using a Ford 400 crank with aftermarket rods. Pretty unique at the time as there were no available 400 cubic inch stroker kits commercially available for the Windsor yet.

Also, you heard the crowd cheer for Tim as he passed the lead car of Rusty Olson. There was quite the rivalry between the two guys. Rusty's dad was the track owner at the time and Rusty saw a lot of, I guess maybe favoritism, from the track officials as far as adhering strictly to the rules, and the fans knew that. We got torn down so many times. They just couldn't believe a Ford could run that good and not be cheating. lol

That was a really fun time in my life. Being out there with the only Ford and kicking all the Chevy's butts.   

[Stangman]

That’s some good stuff right there. We had a track close up on us in the 80s. There’s still 1 more and it does pretty well spectator wise.