Silly Season II What was your 1st Street car &/OR race car?
 

Hello All :wave:

It is that time of year again.

What is new what is old ECT ECT ECT ...

So My new question is.. What was your 1st Race car or street car or both?

My 1st street car was a 1966 SS Impala that my Uncle bought new in 66 for his wife. I got it in 1975 at 16 years old. 327/300 Power Glide, Red with Black inertia, only thing I added was SS Cragars. Never raced it at the track.

1st Street Race car was a 67 SS Chevelle 396/375 4 spd car (factory 396/350 HP car) that I put a turbo 400 in almost as soon as I got it.
Ran 13.20 in like 78 or 79. In early 80 put a 454 LS6 in it and ran some 12.20. Only raced the car a few times at MIR.

Those were the days.
OK your turn !!!

As a side note, when I bought the 67 SS Chevelle. I borrowed $500 from my girl friend at the time. Instead of paying her back I married her. The cars has been gone since the mid 90s but she is still here 33 years later.
Maybe I should have paid her back!!! NAH its been a good 33 years, I think , but I could be wrong I have CRS disease. LOL

Cal
S/ST HR 1177

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My first car was a 1941 Ford coupe. First actual race car was a 1956 Chevy. First street/strip car was a 1948 Plymouth with a 1955 Dodge Hemi. My only trip over to the Dark Side. LOL

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Mine was my high school graduation gift and first street car. 1979 Cutlass. 260 V-8 2bbl. With the jack, spare, toolbox etc out, was 3,570 pounds with me in it. Best run of 18.59 @ 72. Won my first round, and first race, in it in 2000 in my rookie year. 1 win, 2 R/U's (both by -.00 reds), and third round or better at every race but one. Slow, but effective car and helped teach me a lot about finish line racing a slow car when I got into Billy Nees' two FWD Stockers later on.

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1st car was a 1969 Camaro that I got in January 1996, my senior year of high school. I still have the car, it underwent a major overhaul/restoration in the early 2000s, made its drag strip debut in 2003 running low 12s with a pump gas 406, very streetable. Went as quick as 10.90 with the same engine on a 125 shot. In the middle of yet another transformation, it will be debuting a 427 small block, pump gas motor this spring. Hoping for 9s on this one. Had it pretty well ready to go last year, then my wife broke her leg and I dislocated my shoulder just 2 weeks apart. Healed up by mid summer, but had work commitments. Getting ready for the spring as we speak! Good luck to everyone in 2014 :)

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My first car was a 1959 Plymouth Belvedere with a Dodge 325 4-barrel engine and a 2-speed powerflight trans. My first drag car was a 1964 Comet 2-door post with a 260 and a 4- speed toploader trans, loved that car!


Leonard A. Johnson 4445 CC/SA

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My first car was a '64 Malibu hardtop with a 230 6cyl/ 3 on the tree combo, in the fall of 1970. My dad wouldn't cosign for a V-8 car,, wonder what he knew?? My first race car was a black '66 Chevy II Nova SS 327/275 Glide car that I tore apart and built a 331- 4 speed combo with 4:88s in a 12 bolt that was hard to find even in '74. By then I'd seen Jim Parson's & Terry Harmon's '66 car and Ralph Van Paepeghem's '66 also, so I just had to get one! I just wanted something that would go 12.99 and first time out it goes an .86, so I thought "how hard was that?" So I started working on it, and eventually got it down to an 11.01, before I sold it. It bothered me for many years that I couldn't run a 10.99,,, it wasn't a stocker, but I had my own set of rules I wouldn't break, as it would've been too easy to put a big motor in it, and I wanted to keep it a .30 over 327, with no roller cam, and my 461x heads. I used to love dumping that clutch at 7600 with the later 5:57s, banging the gears and going through at 7300, with the front wheels waist high on the launch. Happy New Year everyone.
Danny Durham

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My first car in high school was a 68 Z28 Camaro with a crate L88, we cut the domes down, what we could, opened the chambers up, installed a Moroso pan, Accel BEI ignition, 800 Holley DP on the factory intake, I had beautiful Heliarced Hooker/Davis 21/8 headers, slapper bars, Muncie with a V gate ,I had a lot of fun in that car.

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My first car was a 47 chevy coupe. My dad bought for $60.00 I believe. Got me to school but the "disease" caused me to sell and buy a 55 chevy former race car with a 283.
First race car was the 56 Sedan Delivery of John Dianna. That was third hand and rules changed at the end of my first 6 or 7 weeks of ownership. Changed it to a 2 Dr wagon with the same motor and a glide. Began Learning how to set the timing, valves on a V-8 as I went. Runner up to John Barkley at my first Indy 1970 class two weeks later. I believe we had 19 cars in O/SA. 14.26

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My first car was my graduation present from my parents in 1984,a 1978 Buick Skyhawk. It`s the same car I still have today in Stock and it`s going through a complete rebuild including a new engine,trans,converter and rear end gears. It got new pearl white and candy purple paint a few years ago,time for everything else!

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1st Street Car: 69 Nova SS 396/375 4 Speed. 1972. Sold The Car, The Guy Still Has It.

1st Race Car: 69 Camaro Super Stocker 350/255 1974-78

2nd Race Car: Currently Racing A 89 Camaro in Stock Elim. 305/220 2009-?