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01-11-2018, 02:18 PM | #11 |
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Re: Drag Racers, Why do we race ?
Certainly wasn't born into it. Family still couldn't care less. Always liked mechanical stuff as a kid; bicycles, minibikes, lawn mowers, anything. Went to work in a gas station at 16 and got a car. All the older guys had Camaros, Chevelles, Mustangs, Super Bees, with huge cams, 4 speeds, header mufflers, big tires, went the local strip and the hook was set.
It's a lot more complex and difficult to do well than it looks to the casual observer ("what's so hard about just going straight?") and that's what has kept me hooked. That and the noise. And the people. Anyone I consider a real friend, I met in racing. Last edited by CMcAllister; 01-11-2018 at 02:21 PM. |
01-11-2018, 04:21 PM | #12 |
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I enjoy the challenge and the competition. I don't have a top of the heap qualifying car so my benchmark is my past performance and trying to improve on that with what I have to work with. I also like the challenge of racing the best of the best. I have been lucky enough to win a few races along the way against some really tough drivers. This makes a win or round win that much sweeter. I also like getting away and camping at the track during the events. Its a nice get away form the work day struggles. we have met some good people along the way.
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01-11-2018, 09:11 PM | #13 |
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01-12-2018, 01:02 AM | #14 |
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Re: Drag Racers, Why do we race ?
All the above!
PLUS: My Dad/Brother/Myself were always Drag Racers...... In 1970 we had three Red 70 Cudas parked in front of house (Two 440/6 and One Hemi) AND a 1968 Hemi Dart SS/BA parked in our little garage. They both have been gone around 30 years....... But I still feel them riding with me on every pass down the track! Hope my boys will feel that someday too about me. It has always been just what we do.
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01-12-2018, 09:56 AM | #15 |
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Re: Drag Racers, Why do we race ?
Why do I drag race?
well.. I do a couple appendectomies in the garage and everybody gets bent out of shape yelling I'm not a doctor. I get some plutonium and start building a home reactor to power my place and all of a sudden I'm on a watch list and a potential bad guy. I use my property to make a replica of hill 262 in Viet Nam to paint ball with bunkers/punji pits/razor wire/guard towers and all of a sudden I'm a wacko that needs to be raided. DRAG RACING??? THAT'S NOTHING THE COPS SAY! I think they're relieved I've taken on a more mundane hobby....... Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching the cops trying to get into my bunker that they chased me into as I watch them from the spider hole that's behind them. Great fun...but sometimes you have to take it down a notch and do stuff a little more safer like drag racing...or knitting...or something. |
01-12-2018, 10:03 AM | #16 |
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Ok...seriously?
Ran stock cars with all my cousins when I was 14-17 then after having a new car I worked on for 2 months destroyed the first night racing it was the last straw. Pulled the drivetrain and built a drag car and never looked back. Can't even stand to watch stock car racing now. Always been a gearhead after seeing my cousin get an old car fixed after it quit while we were tearing around in a field, I was 9. Wanted to be able to do "that" and built many dune buggies and then other vehicles along the way. Love the competition is the best reason, it's an addiction. |
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01-12-2018, 10:27 AM | #18 |
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Re: Drag Racers, Why do we race ?
....'cause they don't have model airplane contests every week.
Never lost the love of being pressed against the seat by mashing on the accelerator. To see if I'm working in the right direction to improve my car. Race against the great drivers. Attain personal goals. |
01-12-2018, 11:24 AM | #19 |
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The only reason I continue to race is " I hate my money"!
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