Thread: 7 seconds of love?

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Turn up the volume and hang on;

Maybe he needed that part he was missing?

That's one reason why Jon don't play that .............

Kitz

Man that was some ride. Even back then the safety devices were obsolete.

gotta love the "wheres the car" ,in case anybody doesnt know thats the very same rick "the iceman" stewart who is the current NHRA starter and the same band "canned heat" who played woodstock" wow great piece of film !!!! guy int he silver firesuit standing there watching them load rick almost looks like mcewen .

I remember that.

I would still do that in a heartbeat. WOW

if i had the chance to drive a fuel burning FED like that i would do it immed. heck id trade my cars and crap for a rolling chassis !

Did you hear the announcer , he moved on and was getting ready to send another one down the 1/4 at em........
I like the push starting truck tooo

Shared a room with Rick at a Division race in Vegas back in the early 90's. Nice guy.

"I would still do that in a heartbeat"
"If I had a chance to drive a fuel burning FED like that I would do it immed."


I wouldn't.

I sat and watched as a good buddy and high school classmate lost his life in a wreck just like that. His name was Ted Arnold and he was driving for Vance Hunt. It happened at the old Green Valley Dragway in Fort Worth, Texas.

Ted was the great guy NOBODY ever said anything bad about. We were all terribly shocked, but what it did to Vance was many times worse. I'm sure it still haunts him. I had lunch with him yesterday but I sure didn't bring that subject up.

Vance eventually returned to racing (very successfully), but still ......

Granted, I'm talking 40+ years ago, but any time our old roadster broke ten seconds was cause for a huge celebration and satisfied my go-fast needs.

Dang, guys, I'm sorry. I don't mean to take anything away from an exciting clip, but I watched it about four times. Then I sat here remembering and working myself into a throughly sour attitude.

Sorry 'bout that.


Jim

Ah yes, the hot car gate and a fire in front of you with no way to get away from it and no firewall sealing off the driver's compartment..... We certainly have progressed a lot since then...

well they still race them in goodguys and are doing some nice et's so they cant all be dead ! theres alot of old meets and assoc's for fed's id love to hop in a 1969 era car and make a pass. its just like any racing its not a safe sport then and its still not its just not as dangerous. but racing is dangerous.

How hot is a 150 mph blowtorch wind..............it looks like 95 percent of the heat and fire went directly at him probably could not see anything..........

anybody see t-pedregons blowup this weekend? that was violent

Racing a car built to 1969 standards is not as safe as racing a car built to today's standards..... The good old days weren't as good as some would have you believe.... Life was simpler, sure... With today's performance potential in yesterday's cars, the safety level declines. Go ahead and find your FED.... They aren't cheap and campaigning one of them would easily double what your present car costs you.... The big meets are few and far between so add a bunch of $$$$$ for travel, and of course when you're on the road don't forget to take along lots of spare part$!!!!!!

The majority of the safety updates are there for a reason....Usually takes someone getting hurt to mandate a change in rules.... Ask John Force which is better....