Interesting story/history behind your racecar?

[aspen7709]

Bought my aspen from a stripper (ginny cook) for the cost of a tow bill. $12.00. Cleaned the car and found empty mary jane bags, a couple of needles and job apps for every strip club in town plus a few condom wrappers.... Thank god for welding gloves LOL. New car is my car I drove to highschool and college in the eighties....Got LOTS of memories and stories with that one.... should hit the track by the end of summer...

[Red LeBlanc]

Mike. Your right . Our current 69 Mustang is My wife Linda first new car. It is titled and licenced. We did go on our honeymoon to Panama City Beach Fl.in the same car.It could tell a lot of stories.. Red & Linda Le Blanc..

[BobUnkefer]

Red,
You never told me the part about the honeymoon........

Here I've been telling that story for years and never told the best part!

Is it stll titled in HER name? :-)

Unk

[Phillip marvetz]

Originally Posted by aspen7709

Bought my aspen from a stripper (ginny cook) for the cost of a tow bill. $12.00. Cleaned the car and found empty mary jane bags, a couple of needles and job apps for every strip club in town plus a few condom wrappers.... Thank god for welding gloves LOL. New car is my car I drove to highschool and college in the eighties....Got LOTS of memories and stories with that one.... should hit the track by the end of summer...

Best one so far. lol

My Aspen Wagon came from GTX John, The tow bill cost more than the car.

[KRatcliff]

I grew up at the drag strip with my dad and mom. I had zero interest in getting into this sport. There was more than enough fun going to the races and hanging out with them plus the Emmons' Circus.

My mom found a car for sale that Irvin Johns owned and she peer pressured me into buying it. That wasn't exactly my first car. About 6 months prior, my dad found a '68 crate motor Camaro that he had me buy.

He took me out to the track and explained everything you could imagine what to do from the burnout to staging the car plus shifting. He didn't tell me anything about what to expect when I needed to shut down the car. It was a wild ride for a 1st timer for sure.

When the drag racing bug bites it leaves a nasty scar.

[Red LeBlanc]

UNK... Yep still in her name & titled.. Ture story .. Honey Moon 69 Mustang. Both of them still look really good.. Red Le Blanc.

[Larry Hill]

We have owned our 71 Cuda since 1980. I still remember driving Chris to swimming lessons in that car when he was 3 years old. (He will be 35 next month).

Patsy

[Greg Hill]

My Camaro that I now race came from the late Jimmy Casey from Lubbock, TX. Jimmy and I were good friends and talked all the time and I mentioned to him I would like to have a 70-71 Camaro. A few weeks later he called and and said he had found a really nice car and it could be had for $1400 and he had a guy coming through Memphis and could deliver it to me. I told him I would take it and to have his guy bring it to me. The guy brought it to my warehouse and I helped him unload it. After the delivery guy left I started I started looking it over. I opened the trunk and there were a bunch of old greasy rugs in the trunk. I took the rags out and there staring me in the face was the gas tank. The trunk floor was almost all gone. I think I. Replaced every body panel with the exception of the top and deck lid.

Gary Jennings did the roll bar and chassis work and dipped the body in a large caustic tank to remove any body filler or seam sealer. Gary called me and told me I had better come up to his place and take a look at my old car because there wasn't much left of it. Well, he was right. Quarters, inside and outside wheel houses , both door skins, hood, fenders, inner fenders, and valance panels and I had a race car. I will say that it was a very light race car.That was more than 20 years ago.

[FED 387]

Ran a 67 Camaro in Modified Production years ago---bought it from my next door neightbor 82 years old--typical little old lady car 6 cylinder 3 speed on the column NO extras--- no radio nothing ---it had 7000 milles on it in 1973 she wanted to get a 4 door NOVA with automatic so she could take her girl friends around--dealer did not want it so I paid her $400 for it--- and as they say the rest is history---ran it as a E or F/MP car--had the first Nash 5 speed with Long Shifter and First 6:50 Ford gear too got it from Zoom---this car would hook on a ice rink--- sold it in 1981 built a Monza hatchback gasser---got all the sheet metal from GM for free ----287 cu in/3600 pounds would run 10:20 at 132 mph all day long---held the record for awhile----sure wish I had it be a fun car to play with---last I heard the car was in Alabama but that was 10-15 years ago

[Marine One]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

We have owned our 71 Cuda since 1980. I still remember driving Chris to swimming lessons in that car when he was 3 years old. (He will be 35 next month).

Patsy

My 71 tri black, big block Cuda came from a guy with a pet black bear (got pictures!). The car had been sitting under his car port for 20+ years.

My NHRA Trans Am is out of Cape Canavaral. The owner was a NASA engineer. Still has the Challenger plate on it that he gave me. I guess they were the first "specialty" plates in the US and were used to help generate funds for Challenger missions. After the accident, if you had a Challenger plate you could keep it as long as you renewed it every year, but the first time you failed to renew it, you were done.