Thread: I've really lost it!!!!

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Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Watch out Dave, the resident wizard will have you stuffing a big block Poncho in it.

Not too likely, Ken!!!

I guess I didn't really expect (or want?) anyone to try to talk me out of it... It's certainly not mine yet, just some very preliminary negotiations... Trades between Hot Rodders are such a delicate negotiation... We've made each other a couple tenative offers, and are approaching the "let's sit down for coffee and talk about it" stage of the process....

But man, it sure is an enticing little thing!!!!!

On an almost serious note, any idea what kind of times a guy has to run in one these days to be a bit competitive at some of the smaller nostalgia events??? I just can't help but think it would make a most excellent "retirement racer" and a dang good reason to get out of the shop and the garage once in awhile, do some travelling, and have some way-big fun!!!!!!

For that car that guy in Bartlett will probably talk you into putting a 392 in it(see, the distributor is on the correct end of the engine!!!!!!)

Or---I could even half agree with wiz when he gets up----half agree--put TWO ponchos ala Eddie Hill!!!!

Either of my suggestions will make you competitive

Don't think I'd ever want to get to the twin engine stage of nostalgia--and it certainly wouldn't be with no Poncho..... The 392 that the dude in Bartlett sells would be my prime consideration....

Guess I'd not be so much into the "nostalgia look" as I would be into a good, reliable, easy to maintain, and more affordable part of racing vs. the sitting around and looking good...

Man, that crazy Eddie Hill dude!!! I was a Texas resident when that crazy kid was racing them Top Fuel boats....think he got into top fuel dragsters cuz he wanted to run a something that was safe!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Man, that crazy Eddie Hill dude!! I was a Texas resident when that crazy kid was racing them Top Fuel boats....think he got into top fuel dragsters cuz he wanted to run a something that was safe!!!!!!

Ya mean 200mph, kevlar underwear and a parachute strapped to your ass wasn't safe ????????....

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Dave, my Ex-GF said to me one time, "Honey, how many cars do you NEED?" I told her it wasn't a matter of how many I needed, it was how many I WANTED.

Yes, you should get that car. It would be a blast to drive and every time you fire that baby up and stage you will feel like Garlits for about 9 or 10 seconds. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT, DO IT.

Even a mild little Ford in there will put you in times you would have to spend big bucks on to achieve with a heavier, different style drag car. Plus it looks like it is really put together well.

You really didn't think a bunch of gearheads like us would tell you to pass on this deal, did you, and you KNOW Ken is a bad influence!

Don

I can see you here Dave:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpVHF...eature=related

Dang it Don!!!! WHY did you make me watch that video???? You getting a kick back from the car seller or what????:

Fair warning--I'd have to consider my first road trip with the car to be to Florida---I'll set your butt in the car just so someone else would have to go out and spend all their hard earned money on a REAL toy!!!

Ran a rear engine car a few seasons, last one I had was an injected BBF--with all the noise and excitement behind you it almost got to be a boring ride...don't think that would happen with a front engine car...

Scooter and I have been PM'ing back and forth for a few years now about a nostalgia racer...this isn't really some spur of the moment impulse deal....I'm really going back and forth in my feeble brain over one of these front engine cars, or getting on my own version of a nostalgia door slammer.... Honest to God truth though, that rear engine car I had was the lowest cost weekly upkeep car I ever ran!!!! So light that parts breakage was nil--ran 80 to 100 passes every summer for three years--changed bearings and rings every winter as a preventive maintenance deal but not even that was essential.... Weekly maintenance was; change the oil filters, top off the oil, set the valves, wash the car, go over it with Meguiar's spray and shine, push it back in the trailer, wait for Sunday....


Anyhows, I sure didn't need to watch the video in that dang link you posted!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by HWORRELL

Ya mean 200mph, kevlar underwear and a parachute strapped to your ass wasn't safe ????????....

Seems perfectly acceptable to me, Howard!!!! Maybe it was Ercie who talked him into getting into a safer form of Motorsports????? You know how distraught them women can get....

Why a Ford? I use them for starters That would be fun just as a noise maker.

Originally Posted by bigdude

Why a Ford? I use them for starters That would be fun just as a noise maker.

Why a Ford??? I like to go fast, not just make noise......

Had to say that bigdude, no way I could let a setup like that go by without coment!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

For that car that guy in Bartlett will probably talk you into putting a 392 in it(see, the distributor is on the correct end of the engine!!!!!!)

Or---I could even half agree with wiz when he gets up----half agree--put TWO ponchos ala Eddie Hill!!!!

Either of my suggestions will make you competitive

GOOD ONE! Gave me a good laugh there Jerry! Well, at least the first part did..

Might need to wear that aluminum baseball cap when you hop in that unit Dave....

Originally Posted by pro70z28

Might need to wear that aluminum baseball cap when you hop in that unit Dave....

Yeah, kind of planning on that!!! got to get the mod on it to have a bill on each end though.....

Here you go Dave, these people should be able to tell you what times you would need to turn to be competitive.

http://www.anra.com/

Don

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Yeah, kind of planning on that!!! got to get the mod on it to have a bill on each end though.....

If you want to mod the cap he may have to "BILL" you for the difference.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Here you go Dave, these people should be able to tell you what times you would need to turn to be competitive.

http://www.anra.com/

Don

Thanks Don, looks like a 7.50's to 60's would put a guy right in the middle of the action...I can do that!

Originally Posted by pro70z28

If you want to mod the cap he may have to "BILL" you for the difference.

That's hokey dokey, Pro!!! Long as the FBI, CIA, DEA, OSI, NCIS, ABC, XYZ, and the rest of them secret agent dudes with the black helicopters can't read my mind.... You ain't gonna hide a transmitter in my new double billed hat, are ya??????