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Weve all done them, things in the pits that most "sane" people would either not believe or wonder why.

I was talking with long time racer, and Max Wedge guy who has helped immensly on this project the mysterious "Mr M" and he was talking about someone back in the 70's with one guy jumping on either fender of a new car to wedge the car under the improvised lift to get the engine back in....my thought was "yeah so, sounds reasonable ( I would have pulled the tires and ran it up on drums or rotors" but , ive said before I can be a "hack" by nature. (Pits included in this case , Hotel Parking Lots, Parts Parking lots etc)

What are some of the sillier, stupider, and more awesome things you guys have done in the pits all in the name of MAKING it happen at all cost....

Modifications, improvments, etc.

I d love to hear some of the things the vet drag racers have done to make the pass. Smart repair items , duct tape rubber bands and tinfoil engineering.

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I know a guy that sewed the gash in the tread of his slicks with carpet thread. Worked just fine!

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I'm not a believer in taking a chance of ruining or possibly delaying everyone elses day at the races by doing something and it goes very wrong... I have put the car in the lights knowing it was hurt and just patched it up to put it in the lights and waited to see if the other car red lit than shut it down. It was in 1975 Westhampton NY second time shot exploded the front yoke took out the back of the tailshaft when I side stepped the clutch the car never even flicked the stage beams. They pushed me back and swept up the pieces and put it in a pile. I pushed the car back to the pits and a guy next to me with a corvette happened to have a spare yoke which I gave him $20 for. I put it back together and went over to the starting line and picked up all of the pieces from the tailshaft and with a lot of brake clean and rtv silicone black MOPAR glued it back together like your Mothers ceramic vase that you and your brother broke while wrestling in the living room and said do you think she'll notice. I went up for first round and just drove real easy wathced the other car go through the finish line with no win light I just started to laugh and could not beleive it. The word got out that I was hurt and lost second round but I will never forget that day. And by the way I never got away with anything with my mother she knew everything well not quite everything.

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About 7 or 8 years ago i wiped a lobe off a roller cam in a 69 camaro i drove for someone on my last time run at orlando div race.we drove home got a much larger cam from a diff motor went back and changed it in the grass (didnt know if we had enough piston/valve clearance) and won the race the next day,boy i slept good that night
scott fifield

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This one is funny, but also embarrassing. First time I've told it publicly, but it's been so long ago all involved parties are probably no longer around.

1971, first Div. 2 points meet of the year. Phenix City, AL. A friend & I had a new, first time out, 1969 Covrette F/SA we had just finished the night before. Accell had a pretty neat booth set up in the pits, They had a distributor machine there and were offering free testing. I don't remember why, but I drove the car right up to the booth and pulled the distributor there. Didn't notice when I pulled the dist. that I also accidently pulled the oil pressure gauge line off the fitting. After finishing on the machine, I put the dist. back in and fired up the car to set the timing. Remember, a Corvette hood hinges are in the front and it was a wide open shot. It was windy out and the wind caught the oil and absolutely wiped out the Accell booth/display including and whole rack of yellow Accell jackets and the big banner.

As soon as I realized what was happening, I shut the car off. The Accell rep was talking to a couple of guys and none of them saw what had happened. We quickly and quietly pushed the Corvette back and then to our pit spot which was quite a ways away. The Phenix City pits were unpaved, with lots of trees and, almost, above ground roots, but we were running on adrenaline.

I didn't walk by the Accell booth the rest of the weekend.

Remember, this was 39 years ago and I'm sure the statute of limitations will protect me.
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I personnally know the guy.

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Oh alright, I'll play. Like the above, most everyone that was around probably doesn't remember anymore.

Likely April 1974, Indianapolis Raceway Park. My buddies had just finished their W/S Pinto. We had only had it out maybe one other time and were preparing for the division 3 points meet the next weekend.

We'd made one or two passes and the car wasn't running well. We changed both the points and plugs (how many remember doing this, LOL) and needed to reset the timing. Guess what, we forgot to bring a timing light! We borrowed one from some guys a couple spaces over.

So, we proceed to get everything hooked up. My buddy tells me, "hit the key". Now, I had one of those real bad brainfarts, I forgot to take the car out of gear. It fired, anyone want to wager a guess as to what happened next? I was dumbfouned, this thing just took off. Here we were chasing our racecar across the pits. Thankfully, there was nothing in front of us, it made it a fair distance before we caught it and got it stopped. Also glad we didn't damage the other guys light. Felt pretty sheepish taking it back to them.

As well, learned, DON'T check the spark of an MSD-7 with the coil wire held by your fingers. That hurt! Nuff said.

Guess I can end this with an old saying:

"What's the point of doing something stupid, if you can't share it with your friends".

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I can remember running late to get to the track in a different state (NJ). When I got there I missed the last call for time runs as the electric fuel pump didnt work and I couldnt get it started. I pulled some wiring and then twisted the wires together with tape (I think I lost a ground on the ride in) and got it working just barely for the first round. Dialed by prayer and got a red light from the other guy. Ran it out the back door and then went another four rounds winning PRO that day at ATCO in 1997. I also beat my dad second or third round that day giving him a lesson in driving -(whumped him at the tree and shut it down at the big end)...

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Wifes bracket car started long enough to get it out of the trailer and into the pit spot. It died like it ran out of gas. We don't have a pressure gauge on it (we do now). I proceeded to take the pump off to see if the screen was clogged, well it was out of gas. What a d.a.

This didnt' involve fixing anything, but like Mike's lucky winning round. Raced this guy wasabout .2 slower so he got the head start, I left and broke the yoke and ujoint just after he redlite. The next race, I got to race him again, hegot another .2 headstart, he left, I left, I broke the bell housing just after he redlite. He stays away from me now.

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Was not in the pits but, I changed a engine under the drive up at a Holiday Inn. We started in the back lot but when it started pouring down rain we rolled it under the covered drive up out front to finish. Everyting was fine untill a local cop stopped to see what was going on. Next thing we know there was a bunch of cop cars out front and the mangager shows up at 4am and sees all the cops there and thought hotel had been robbed or something. He was not exactly a happy camper and we were invited to leave.

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Back in the early 80's (before the wife and kids) I was going to all the IHRA races with my brother, (David) and after I got off night shift we loaded up and headed to Rockingham for the weekend with the 58 chevy wagon superstocker. The 3800+ lb wagon broke a converter during time trials and we decided to fix the issue at the motel at Southern Pines, not an issue since we had plenty of time. Later that night in the parking lot we found out that the holes in the new convertors mounting flange did not match up with the holes in the flywheel, and we also found the importance of having a drill and bits with the rest of the racing junk. After kicking our own butts for not bringing the needed tools, finding someone nice enough to loan us the tools, and leaving skin, blood ,and DNA under the car and on the parking lot pavement we finally got it back on the ground some time around midnight. David said we gotta try it out to make sure the convertor fixed it. All I could think of was I will get my first sleep in 30+ hours in jail for a noise ordinance.I mentioned the possible complications of checking the stall speed of the new convertor at the motel but was not convincing enough. He left a pretty impressive set of posi black stripes across the parking lot with the lead sled before pulling the car onto the trailer and chaining it down. We never saw any cops, but I am not sure if we made anymore noise than some of the party animals at the motel! Don Jackson

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Was at a point’s race in Sydney Nebraska a few years ago, 1st Qualifying run Bob lost oil pressure and shut the car down, towed it back to the pits, checked the sending unit and pulled the valve covers sure enough it was the oil pump. Drove 350 MI to load up and go home, that’s when Bob had an idea, lets cut the bottom of the oil pan out and fix it, some people were heading into Sydney so we had them pick us up a Melling M55 oil pump, Bob got under the car and cut a square access hole in the bottom of the pan with tin snips, I cut out a square plate, out of one of the tool box drawers, Bob took the oil pump apart and rebuilt it in the pan with parts off the M55. our neighbor in the pits had some #8 self drillers, sheet metal screws. We RTV the plate and screwed it back onto the oil pan, let it sit all night, put oil in the car the next morning no leaks, flushed it once, made three qualifying runs and went two rounds on Sunday. Took it apart when we got home welded the pan up and were still using it. People in the pits were drinking beer, and laughing there ass’s off.

Randy Wells
Well Bros
D/S 5034

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Around 1986 with a 70 Chevelle stick shift car. My open trailer had ramps that were to short and I thought I had the front of trailer up high enough but I didn't. Pulled car forward some and got out and jacked trailer tongue higher. I had left the car in neutral and watched car role off trailer by itself. I was lucky that the header caught the back of the trailer and stopped car as it would have hit the car behind me. Same car at Super Chevy Norwalk I broke an axle in the water and staged and won when the other car redlit. I went back for next round and no burnout but no luck and lost.
My Monte Super Stocker had rubbed a hole in the rear brake line from rim and I was able to down shift and put car in reverse in the grass next to track at Union Grove. Came back to pits with no brakes and put a screw and clamp on broken line and refilled and bled brakes. Worked for the rest of the weekend .

Put a fresh motor in Monte and was wondering why I had to open holes in flexplate to converter now as I didn't have to before. What I had done was that I had 2 flexplates internal and external and had grabbed the wrong one. Needless to say after about 4 runs and wondering what was going on I pulled motor and had beat up the bearings. Then realized I had installed the wrong flexplate. As of today that wrong flexplate is still on the roof of my shop.

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Damm you guys and brakes....lol.

I was just talking to a friend who hold the land speed record in his class at bonneville, he was talking about the last outing of the car and said they found a pinhole in the brakes, drained the lines and ran without brakes, 260 mph with no brakes, like he said "its not like there a lot to hit out there" and well....Youve got like 8 miles to stop, the chute stopped the car dead much faster than they expected.

YOU had to have one of those "gut" moments......youre not by any chance one of the guys at 42 who insists on plowing the corn across the road a couple times a year are ya :) (EVERY Time I go there I look to my rt to see if anyone has been cutting corn, been a couple years since I saw any fresh cuts)

Corn apparently makes for good braking...

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I started my S/ST AMX on the lift at an AAMCO while in gear. I hit the brake pedal fast enough but the lift (this was a drive on lift) was oily. The car slid right off some 8' in the air. I guess I got lucky there was a wall in front which caught the car with the front tires off the lift! Man, did I feel like a moron! Hadn't even been to the track for the first time with the new engine yet. Slight damage to the grille and hood. Ego took it worse...

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The 2004 Winternationals came along, and Tony Janes and I have two nearly identical cars, both red 68 chevelle 2 dr.hardtops, one a Malibu that ran L/SA, mine a 300 deluxe hardtop that runs K. Tony had his good motor in the Malibu, and asked me if I wanted to use his #2 motor, good for about .25 off the mule motor in my car.I took him up on it, put the #2 bullet in the car, fired it up and we went to Irwindale for a Thursday test and tune the Thursday night before Pomona.The car flew, but the water pump sprang a bad leak on the way back, ending the TnT. I put a new pump on it,but noticed that the oil pressure never exceeded 20 psi, and would drop off above idle. Oops, pull the engine, replace the oil pump.Back in the car,same thing. Chuck Norton called, asked what oil filter I used, I told him a Fram, he said"Get rid of it.Use a Delco 1218".I did,instant oil pressure. Great. I stalled the engine against the converter, the car made a bad noise, a big lurch, and wouldn't stall above 1200 rpm. Broke the converter. I called Tony and asked if he still had my spare converter. He said,"Yes,but it's in our wagon."I came down to his house,pulled the trans from the wagon,snatched the converter,went home,pulled the trans out of the Chevelle,swapped the converter,buttoned it up,put it on the trailer late Sunday afternoon, went to Pomona ,ran the car, and on pass#4, it fell off badly.Back in the pits, there's oil all over, blowby out the valve covers, there went the ring job. Tony says," Forget it, you're through, put it on the trailer,you're done". Wrong-o.I took the car home at noon on Friday, drove it around back, yanked the engine ,put the mule back in, and was back driving it around the Pomona pits by 3:30.Round one in the AM- what to dial? I used a number that sounded good,and drew a former world champoin in Stock some years back,and he had won several Pomonas.Right away,this didn't look good. Right at the burn out box, the thought hit me"I can do this.Don't beat yourself now".Sure enough, I got an .015 light,ran it right to the line,bombed the brakes and got a win light. I didn't see the red light in the other lane.There was my time trial. Round two, I broke out more than the other guy,ending the race of the stocker that thought it was a fueler, or the flog of the decade.

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Truly awesome story.

I guess you are like us "you dont have enough common sense to know you should quit" (and I mean that in the biggest compliment possible)

I was just telling another DP guy tonight, I wont give up on Pomona till I show up late and beg and they still wont let us run.

To give up is easy, to push forward with slim chances is the hard road.

Rock on.....

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We were at the US Nationals with our 71 hemi Charger (B/SA) in 74 or 75 We had borrowed an Olynek truck with long ramps. We were pitted on the oval. The truck was designed for a Pro Stocker (Blevins) and not for the wide Charger. So we didn't have anyone in the drivers seat.
We were winching the car up and the winch cable snapped. The car took off down the ramps with Tex and me trying to stop it. We couldn't stop it and it was going all the way across the infield. Heading for Dick Baker's beautiful Flame painted Buick stocker. The car doors were locked (it's a New York thing) so we couldn't jump in. And we were slipping and sliding trying to stop the runaway car. Well Dick Baker jump in front of the car and got it stopped . And that was the start of a friendship that lasted for decades.

Another Dick Baker story was when we were heading to Seattle in 1979 We were in Cour De Lene Idaho. Dick had his enclosed trailer and a camper topped pickup. I was driving our rig and Tex was driving Dicks rig Dich was in the back of our stationwagon We were intouch using CB's We were going down a mountain and a Volkswagon Beatle was in front of Tex. We heard Tex cursing the bug for going to slow on the radio. He had to ride the brakes, heating them up.
Well we get down to the bottom and there was a road construction project. A guy has traffic stopped to allow a UTE (construction vehicle the size of a house)to cross the road.
Well Tex is just about out of brakes He goes flying by us on our left trying to stop less than an 1/8 mile ahead the Ute crosses the road. Tex stops about a car length from him.
Dick eyes as big as dinner plates then says with a sigh of relief. "I thought he was going to run out"
Those were fun days

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In 1975, my partner and I were driving home from a points race in LaPlace, LA. We had a '65 Chevelle SW O/S car loaded on a single cab ramp truck. We had taken a helpful kid with us for the weekend to give him the experience of "big-time drag racers". Well, the kid was wimpy tired at dark-thirty in the morning and there wasn't enough room in the cab for three to be comfortable, so we put him in the driver's seat of the wagon to lay down and sleep. Just north of Jackson, MS on I20, we are cruising at about 70 when my partner sees a sign up ahead that says "BUMP". Before he could react, we encounter a buckle in the pavement that could have been an Olympic ski jump. With eyes as big as silver dollars and a death grip on the steering wheel we daylighted the ramp truck over the bump. Everything in the cab bounced off the ceiling, including us. Coffee everywhere, knots on our heads and half the stuff that was laying in the floor is now on top of the dash! Luckily, he maintained control and pulled over a quickly as he could gain his senses. We jumped out to check the car and survey the damage. Whew! Chains on the front and back held and everything was tight. Then he thought of the kid. . . Opened the door to find stuff thrown around everywhere in the car, including the kid! He was now in the back seat, but still sound asleep! The kid later became a partner on the car since we figured that anyone who could deal with stuff that well has got to be worth something.

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Good story Dwight. I had one of those wimpy kid pit helpers myself once. this is the inverse story.

Muncie Dragway, 1986. We had this kid that thougth he wanted to be involved with racing. What he really wanted was a free ride to the drags and to "bask in the glory of the racing" planted in a lawn chair in the bed of the truck, while sitting and eating junk and drinking pop, LOL! Just like being at home, only more exciting.

I can't recall at what point it happened, either late in practice or maybe prior to the start of eliminations, my partner comes back to the trailer and says, car won't start. OK, it's either fuel or the batteries. I had just filled the tank (didn't have a cell, back then), so, unless it's another problem, it's likely the batteries. I yell at the kid, get down here and help me with the generator, it was one of those old ONAN's, the large heavy ones, not exactly mobile. He grabbed the end of this thing, lifted it up and looked at me like I was nuts. He says, where are we going? I simply pointed toward the staging lanes. We were probably pitted about as far back as you could get that nite, so, it was going to be a long walk.

Long story short, after 3-4 stops for him to rest and catch his breath, we made it to the lanes, recharged the batteries. If memory serves me right, went deep into the eliminator that nite. Funny this was, called the kid up the next weekend, asked him if he wanted to go again. He had something else planned, maybe later he said! He did go a time or two more but don't think he was ever as enthused as the first time.

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In 1991, Ron Durham and I hatched a plot to install a legal 402 into a red 71 Monte Carlo that I had.We had about enough parts to build this thing,and Ron had a very clean original 71 SS454 Monte Carlo that was a driver.An ad appeared in National Dragster for a 70 Chevelle E/SA 402 car for sale,Ron called the guy to pick his brain, one thing led to another,the Chevelle owner proposed a trade,Ron went for it,and one November weekend,Ron borrowed my old tired 71 El Camino and trailer to run up to Milwaukee,Oregon,a suburb of Portland,and do the trade.He left Glendora on a Thursday night with the Monte Carlo on the trailer, and came by Saturday PM with the Chevelle,1977 miles later. When I think of all the tow vehicles I've ever had,that one was the worst because it was completely worn out.It made the trip up in the late fall,and I think Ron got almost the last good mile out of it. While driving it to work one day,I noticed that the power steering didn't feel right.I went into work and checked it out as I was leaving,and discovered the harmonic balancer was loose. I nursed it home all 27 miles,and the temperature gauge just kept climbing.When I arrived home, a further inspection revealed that the snout on the crankshaft broke right in front of the timing gear.A large burr at the break kept the crank gear on.That weekend,I pulled the engine and installed a used take out 350 that I had.If I didn't have all those used parts, I don't know what we would have done.That crank lasted less than 100 miles after he got back from Oregon. He must have led a charmed life that time.The Monte Carlo is a bracket car with a 355 small block.We ran it a few times at Irwindale,it could be a stocker some day,Ron and I went our ways, we both still race,a lot has happened since then,but this story of Ron's incredible luck survives.

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Common sense indicated that wasn't the time to quit.More common sense would have indicated not to take that much stripe. Being a quitter is the first step to being a loser.Many of life's losers began losing after they started quitting.Actually,that weekend was fun.

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Couldnt be better said

I think from my observations of human nature people , some people, have an inherent fear of failure. Its is emotionally easier to quit than admit failure.

Me Ive made failure and art....one day Ill succeed at something that will make me rich, but if not Ill be happy to keep trying and failing....how many failures did Edison have before succeeding on the light bulb 1000?

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Marty Snowball had 2 stockers at a mid 70s division 2 points race at Bradenton Fl, a cobrajet 69 Torino automatic and a cobrajet Mustang 4 speed. We broke the motor in the Mustang and the transmission in the Torino. Sane people would have called it good and loaded up. Insane peole got the owner to lock us in overnight at the track and we swapped the good motor into the Mustang plus drank a lot of beer. Talk about a long shot happy ending, Sunday he wins stock eliminator in the Mustang. We had 5 or 6 south Fl. Ford racers and dealership mechanics helping and to this day its one of the most rewarding races Ive ever been too and took part in

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Awesome......is Marty Snowball still alive ?

Ask if his family comes from Ohio, Ill bet dollars to dimes were related directly.

Im related to every other Snowball in the country weve found....

Mom is Linda Snowball, Grandpa was..........Rollin O Snowball (yes seriously) Everyone else was a Thomas...lol.....4 generations worth 1 in every line.

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Marty is alive & well living in Ft Lauderdale Fl and was originally from Hialeah Fl. His son Robert runs a ford powered bracket {Quick 16} dragster and lives in West Palm Beach Fl. Marty has a competitive 71 Mustang Super Cobrajet 429 automatic stocker in his garage but doesnt have much interest in it any more. I live in Montana now but Ill email him or he will read this on here

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[QUOTE=Robert Swartz;167176]As well, learned, DON'T check the spark of an MSD-7 with the coil wire held by your fingers. That hurt! Nuff said.
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Hey, you said "Bump it"...lol
Seems I recall you sizzling on the end of a plug wire attached to a 67 Mustng once....

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I remember that weekend, that was Pit Stop Paul ! Remember, he came flying around the truck with the floor jack wanting to change the tires like in NASCAR the first time I pulled up to the trailer after a pass? I never did figure out where he thought he was going to get any more tires to put on it since we didn't bring any spares....

I remember you sending the kid after water to cool the car down and he took off with the jugs, but forgot the wagon...

"You gonna tell him?'
"Nahh"

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[QUOTE=Tod Lane;167998]Reminds me of a guy I saw pull into the pits one day in edmonton at a bracket race, 1967 cuda with this huge promod wing off the back. Real hippie lookin guy, he opens the hood and has an instant crowd. I wander over to see what the fuss is about and this guy is talking about the advantages of having 6 coils hooked up to the distributor on his 340 ci. One guy pipes up and asks 'how fat is the spark off those wires?' so the hippie lookin dude pops off a lead and cranks the engine and be damned if he wasnt thrown back 20 feet and had to change his drawers, shoulda ground the wire hahaha still see the smoke out of his ears.

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I got one more, been around a race track since before i could walk seen a lot of stupid s**t! So the ole boy and I are hangin in the trailer early one cold sunday morning after unloading his car,we had the lawn chairs all set up too. We are looking directly at this pair trying to fire up a super pro mustang, one guy bumping the key , the other guy holding a 10 gallon jerry can......................over the carb. Long story longer this jerry can is flying thru the air with the greatest of ease.....................in flames, the ole boy and I couldnt hold our laughter back. These two guys couldnt chose between the car or the jerry can with which too dose the flames. this was also at a track north of calgary. To this day I still chuckle to myself when I see the perpetrators. hahaha awesome. no one was hurt in the stunt depicted above and should only be done by trained PRO-FESSIONULS!!!

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I got time for one more, way back in the day we had a trailer to tow the family race car. it was a mobile home axle with a fabricated deck that was low and went up over the axle,not high tech by todays standards but then you either drove your car or flat towed it . Now the ramps were way too short ,about 2 feet long if i had to guess. The ole boy is backing the car off, and gets the chevy II headers hooked on the trailer, now the pits at Saskatoon were gravel and actually still are, the slicks spun a little as he tried to go back up. The spin was enough to dig a hole and make the situation worse the headers now are bent, I think dear old dad spent all day saturday and most of sunday trying to get the headers off the car thats how bad it was stuck. Instead of fixing the car after we drove the 8 1/2 hours home dad spent the next week fabbing 5 foot ramps for the trailer. Dad still talks about that one.

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Another one . . . The very first points race I ever went to in Jackson, MS. Same '65 Chevelle SW 283 but a year earlier when we had to run treaded tires. We tried to set the record on Saturday and made three passes dead on, but could not go under. We took the car back to the motel (back in the day when you could not leave your car at the track) and decided over supper to retard the cam to try to control some wheelspin. Back to the motel, back the car off the trailer and do our adjustment. Since this was the "first big race", we had a circus of friends with us - talking trash, drinking beer, being hosers - and we were having a big time. When we finished, it was late and we did not want to disturb the motel by driving the car back on the trailer so we got the crew around and pushed the car on. Next morning, we drove the five miles or so to the track, into the pits and find our parking place. My partner was driving the truck and borrowed trailer and I was directing him where to put it. He pulled into a nice place between two trees and then backed up to straighten the trailer. When he braked to stop the backward motion, the car just nicely rolled backwards off the trailer, bounced as it made the leap from the ramps to the ground and came to a stop with the front wheels at the back edge of the trailer. Seems in our testosterone delirium of the night's activities, no one bothered to cinch the car down after it was on the trailer!! How it happened that we got to the track without losing the car on way is still a mystery to me.

Incidentally, on the first pass I went a full tenth under the existing record and went on to win the race!

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[QUOTE=Tod Lane;167998]Da&$, now you got everyone else picking on me, LOL! Ah well, it's a sorry man that can't laugh at himself now and then. Not to mention you're picking on my old Mustang again, too. I guess, come to think of it, there weren't any "GOOD" stories associated with that car!

That was with that trick Accel electronic ignition system I had on that car. Really a pretty neat set up, actually a forerunner to the MSD systems. Real nice distributor, it had a spark box and those big Super Coils. That was a tach drive system as well. Looked really cool with the Moroso tach sitting up on the dash. You have to admit, that old 67 Mustang had some really nice parts, just didn't have enough of them. Funny that we just sold all those old Liberty transmission parts a few weeks back. Still can't believe that guy from Ohio wanted that stuff!

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Saw a guy at a Div 2 points race in Orlando in the late 70's that had just bought Marty Snowballs CJ 69 Torino that was so excited after his first pass that he pulled the top hose off to run the water hose in it & cool the motor down. He unfortunately neglected to remove the pressure cap and drain the existing 220 degree water first and emptied the motor & radiator full of steaming hot water straight into his crotch. We were all speechless and it was very ugly. It was nearly a month until he could put a pair of pants on again. He shall remain nameless, this is funny now but wasnt then.

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[QUOTE=Robert Swartz;168116]I was just glad the doors still locked on the stang, you were kinda worked up over that one lol

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I remember a buddy of mine selling a front motor dragster to a kid that had never driven anything faster than a 13 second street car.
It wasn't a particulary fast car, one of John Weibes spare chassis with a really mild 396 in it.

We told him "Take it easy, the car does things a LOT quicker than your used to!"

He didn't listen... He mashes the pedal and the car really launches, I mean REALLY left hard... His girl friend heads down with the three wheeler, no quads in those days. When she gets him back after what seemed like a long time to us, he jumps out of the car and runs off to the trailer

We are kinda anxious to talk to him so we ask her where he went in such a hurry while she is staring at the car with a funny look on her face....
She points at the seat and says, I swear to God this is true, "That isn't lemonaid! I ain't cleaning it up! The f-ing p*^ssie can call his momma to clean up after him!"

I didn't stop laughing for about an hour, he didn't come out of the trailer for two.... We finally threw oil dry in the car to dry it out... He swore us to secrecy, which we of course violated the instant he wasn't standing next to us.

I don't think he appreciated us suggesting he paint the car yellow

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I just read it to my dad about 15 minutes ago, hes still laughing, walking around and a chuclke comes out and he says....yellow....lol....

I think that may be my reaction first time I lauch the Chally......gonna make sure to go before i saddle up :)

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Reminds me of the first time I took an actual race car down the track for the first time. It was dad's mid 11 second chevy II and it would lift the wheels, I was used to my 15 second chevelle street car.Dad kept saying be careful this is something your not used to, and me being a 17 year old punk knew it all 'yea yea dad I've driven fast cars before!"........well the light turns green and I bury my foot into the floorboard and all i see is the roof of the car!.......I forgot about the wieght of the brain bucket.....I did manage to get the car into 2nd gear before I lifted still managed a low 12 second et........ good times.......

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loaned my brand new truck to a buddy, he needed to go buy a part, unhooked my flatbed trailer when
he came back he backed the truck up to the trailer but did.nt hook it up, i come back after
like third round, whip that baby right on the trailer and "bam" front of the trailer goes 6ft
in the air but did'nt move foward luckliy, i put the car in park, slowly got out and moved
the truck away, than slowly let the car roll back

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The first time I ever fired up my dragster was an eye opener. First off it should have been on jack stands, but no it wasn't. I was at a buddys house and we had just finish putting everything together. This car was fuel injected and I never had experience with that type of fuel system before. We fire it up with me in the car. All went fine and it was idling along as I put it in reverse to move it out of the way. Well the motor stumbled so I taped the gas peddle a couple of times like it had a carb on it and boy that motor zinged up and I went flying down the driveway backwards. Without seat belts strapped my feet were forced hard on the peddles. I barely stopped before I put the dragster into the fountain in his circle drive. It's the only time I'm been frightened in that car. I learned a bunch of no-no's that day and was very lucky.