List,
My favorite hot rod was a 1934 Dodge 1/4 ton pick up I had in the 50's.
I had stuffed a 300 cubic inch Desoto into it, all concealed nicely
inside the hood. Never really street raced, just "squirted off" from the
stop light through low gear, then shut off. I guess that might qualify
as a speed exhibition. NEVER LOST A RACE. (Corvettes were my specialty.)
I did know enough to shut off while I was ahead, though, that what made
me the winner.
I ran "C" gas class at the drags on Sundays, eventually turned 102 MPH
in the 1/4) but it was my driver through the week. I built a wooden
camper on the back and took it cross country to the Midwest in 1956. A
fun trip. Appeared to be some prospector's rig, black primer and a home
made camper. It had a Chrysler overdrive trans and a 4:64 rear axle.
Cruised at 70-80 MPH nicely. This is the one vehicle that I have owned
that I really wish that I still had.
Tom, just a kid at heart, holder of D/FCC records - Bonneville, El
Mirage and Muroc, but can't make gasoline work, Bryant!.
Wester S Potter wrote:
>
> Rich,
> With more than our share of the worlds oldest teen-agers in the Salt Lake
> Valley, I just hope you have half as much fun when you are still doing it to
> the kids in Camaros in twenty years. Too bad they won't be new Camaros. My
> '53 Stude coupe lost it's stock 120 hp V8 in favor of a lighter and much
> faster Chev 392 and was a blast to cruise on State Street in 1960.
> Wes in Salt Lake
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> > From: V4GR@aol.com
> > To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> > Subject: My Lark
> > Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:31:39 EST
> >
> > This has nothing to do with Landspeed Racing but this weekend I took my
>
> >62 Lark for its first ride since it gave up the 170 cid Stude 6 and
> acquired
> >a 383 SBC and 4 spd. Now I am no street racer and at 56 I would like to
> think
> >of myself as mature. But the look on the face of that kid in the Camaro as
> he
> >disappeared behind me was really fun to look at. Rich Fox
> >
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