I don't know if it's lack of fear when you're young or just pure stupidity
but I also had a learning experience when I was a senior in high
school(1972) I had my dads brand new 1972 Dodge Challenger,complete with 340
slapstick automatic,anyway I decided to race a guy with 318 Challenger on
one of the main streets in my town. I ended up pegging the speedometer(I
think it was 120MPH MODEL) and then having to slow down for a red light.
Somehow I managed to stop but not before locking up all 4 wheels for quite a
ways. I don't even want to think about all the things that could have
happened.I did however blow the doors off the 318. Don Simmons
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan D. Gingles <agingles@nucleus.com>
To: STMSymank@aol.com <STMSymank@aol.com>; Ole truck listserve
<oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Projects-was blue flame..my turn...
>Your story reminds me of the first time I really got it on in my old 396
powered
>T-bucket. I was 26 when I bought it, and I knew the potential for trouble
it had.
>400 hp in a 2000 lb car. I was really good about driving it in a safe and
sane
>manner...until.
>I was at a parking lot get together with some friends when some yuppie kids
in
>Dad's Beemer pulled in. One of them started mouthing off about hot rods in
>general, so I told him to get in for a ride. I took him for a cruise around
>downtown, and he was still badmouthing the cars. So, when the light turned
green
>at an intersection we were stopped at, I put my foot to the floor. Never
tried it
>before that day. The car was well built, and it hooked up. It pulled the
front
>wheels almost 2 feet in the air before I could react and get off the gas.
Scared
>the sh*t out of me, and the kid had turned pure white! Think he peed
himself.
>Didn't lose control of the car or anything, just the thought that it had
the
>power to pull the front wheels was incredible! We got back to the parking
lot,
>and he jumped out and ran to his friends, shaking like a leaf. Didn't hear
>another bad word out of him, though. They took off pretty quick, never saw
them
>again. *LOL*
>
>Alan Gingles
>1948 Chevy 1314
>http://www.nucleus.com/~agingles
>
>STMSymank@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I hope you dont get it on in that truck.
>> I had a 36 ford pickup with a HiPro 289 and a c4. I scared my self
and
>> the guy who invented the demarini softball bat so bad that I never drove
it
>> again. Sold it without riding in it on the test drive. Chrome reverse
6"
>> cragers on the front and 8" on the back.It sounded so good that you
couldn't
>> drive it without getting on it . It had a quirck. Every serious
commitment
>> to torture sent it into a brody. Usually a 270 degree spin that sent
your
>> momentum sideways the direction you were traveling. I rolled (on the
wheels)
>> forward after one of those and stopped inches from a deep ravine. Man .
My
>> heart feels like it was yesterday. Sure have grown to like those stock
36
>> fords
>>
>> Caution is learned by experience.Im feeling old
>> Stan the man Symank
>> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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