Anyone Start Drag Racing After Age 60?

[Mike Gray]

Originally Posted by FireSale

This is my first race car and I built everything myself in a two car home garage. Everything was financed from an investment of $4000 in Apple stock in 1986 at $16.50 per share. Literally forgot about it for 20 years. Never even opened a broker statement. Since I still have $17000 in that account I guess this is a free race car. It's nickname is Mad Money and I am Mr. Persistent.

I had a super-gas mustang when my broker talked me out of investing 50K in a new IPO for some company called Google. (D'oh) Who knows what I might be driving if he hadn't done that.
I'm struggling to get back into racing building a '67 Shelby from scratch at age 63. Hope to finish it by the time I retire in a few years.

[John Kissel]

I bought my'67 FireBird in July 1980. Finished it up and moved to Bradenton and raced it on and off till 2010 when the ekonomee dumped. I've gone up and down I-95 enough and had fun,but with an open trailer it might be hard to stop and sleep at night now. The last couple of years I have bought it new stuff, threatened to go race again, and stuff just happens, and e-town closing didn't help matters any. Since I'm 70 now, I got to get busy, and get to Atco, but the thought of towing down the road with these idiot drivers around here is scary. I guess I'll just have to pass them by with our new Hemi Durango. Merry Christmas to all, John Kissel K242

[Craig Dawson]

Turned 64 last month. Haven't raced on a regular basis in 20 years. Since then just dabbled here and there in Nostalgia Super Stock and Stock Eliminator. 2019 is the comeback year!