What do you guys think? Drag car or Street car?

[MattConte]

Dragster2006
I took that photo last Saturday night at Firebird International Raceway. That was taken in the staging lanes, but earlier that night. I was walking around the pits and I had seen the car earlier. Me being a very big Camaro fane. Especially 2nd Gens. Also love the color Blue. I had to go look at that car. When I was the guy just walked up to me and asked me something about an announcement over the PA. I recognized him right away and I just asked him if this was the red car he ran on "Pinks" and if he still had the FORD in it. He smiled and said ,'Yea" then told me that the red paint was falling off the car. I think he told me that he saw a Toyota truck that color blue with the stripes and liked it. So he painted the car that way. Just wanted a change. Real nice guy. I saw that he had a name of transmission shop on the car. I should have asked him if that was his shop. If so. I might go to him for the tranns for my 71 Camaro.
On another note about that episode of pinks. You remember the winner. The guy with the green 86 Firebird S/G. That is the dad of a racing family here locally. the Dolezal family. You remember that his wife was on that show in the final 8 cars with a S/C dragster. You remember their son adn daughter in the lanes with them? Well they all have race cars. I see them at all the races at Firebird and sometimes at our other track on the other side of the valley, Speedworld Raceway Park. The daughter use to run the mom's old s/c Vega, but at this years Div 7 opener at Firebird. They had a new family car that I think the daughter was driving. So I bet this is where the "Pinks" money went into. LOL This was a really well built , very pro looking race car.

This just shows what the show "PINKS ALL OUT" is doing for our sport for the little guys. I think that it is one of the best things to happen to Drag Racing. I hope to maybe one day have my Camaro done and be able to get a crack at being on that show.
Hey, I like your Camaro. Do you still have it?
Oh yea, Disturbed is one of my favorite bands, too. Saw them on this tour. AWESOME live band. Dan Donegan is one of the best Metal guitair players today in my opinion. They are a close 2nd to my favorite band. SlipKnoT. I was thinking about naming my Camaro when it is done, "Psychosocial"
I would post some pics of my Camaro, but there really is not much to see right now. LOL!
Race On...
Matt

[dragster2006]

Originally Posted by MattConte

Dragster2006
I took that photo last Saturday night at Firebird International Raceway. That was taken in the staging lanes, but earlier that night. I was walking around the pits and I had seen the car earlier. Me being a very big Camaro fane. Especially 2nd Gens. Also love the color Blue. I had to go look at that car. When I was the guy just walked up to me and asked me something about an announcement over the PA. I recognized him right away and I just asked him if this was the red car he ran on "Pinks" and if he still had the FORD in it. He smiled and said ,'Yea" then told me that the red paint was falling off the car. I think he told me that he saw a Toyota truck that color blue with the stripes and liked it. So he painted the car that way. Just wanted a change. Real nice guy. I saw that he had a name of transmission shop on the car. I should have asked him if that was his shop. If so. I might go to him for the tranns for my 71 Camaro.
On another note about that episode of pinks. You remember the winner. The guy with the green 86 Firebird S/G. That is the dad of a racing family here locally. the Dolezal family. You remember that his wife was on that show in the final 8 cars with a S/C dragster. You remember their son adn daughter in the lanes with them? Well they all have race cars. I see them at all the races at Firebird and sometimes at our other track on the other side of the valley, Speedworld Raceway Park. The daughter use to run the mom's old s/c Vega, but at this years Div 7 opener at Firebird. They had a new family car that I think the daughter was driving. So I bet this is where the "Pinks" money went into. LOL This was a really well built , very pro looking race car.

This just shows what the show "PINKS ALL OUT" is doing for our sport for the little guys. I think that it is one of the best things to happen to Drag Racing. I hope to maybe one day have my Camaro done and be able to get a crack at being on that show.
Hey, I like your Camaro. Do you still have it?
Oh yea, Disturbed is one of my favorite bands, too. Saw them on this tour. AWESOME live band. Dan Donegan is one of the best Metal guitair players today in my opinion. They are a close 2nd to my favorite band. SlipKnoT. I was thinking about naming my Camaro when it is done, "Psychosocial"
I would post some pics of my Camaro, but there really is not much to see right now. LOL!
Race On...
Matt

yup! most certainly i remember that episode now! that green firebird hauled *** on there. but i was thinking that the red camaro was a different episode lol just proves i need to watch pinks all out more (been watching Pass Time way too much! I LOVE THAT SHOW!) lol so they used their 10k on that chevy 2? damn. 10k can sure go a long way! i could halfway build a comp eliminator car!!!! haha (I wish...) that 75 camaro of ours... we dont have it anymore my dad sold about 2 years ago cause hes a jackass and never finishes anything he starts lol damn shame. that thing was set up for nitrous and had a 10 pound empty bottle of nitrous in the back of it lol so yeah the person who started building the car had intentions of going VERY fast lol and the radiator in the car apparently was very expensive. all of the front clip was fiberglass, the fenders, the front end, the hood. so yeah the guy who put it all together was wanting to go very very fast. and i couldnt stop playing with the hammer shifter it had in it lol that thing was cool! but i tell you what... my dad could not make up his damn mind on what color that car was gonna be. he was thinking about painting it yellow with black racing stripes like the transformers camaro (since that camaro was the same year as ours) but he didnt paint it that way. he painted it blue with white racing stripes as you can see. but that didnt last he painted it white with orange racing stripes (which i thought was nice... but i liked the blue with white racing stripes better...) So you like Disturbed and Slipknot?! Dude so do i. lol i saw them at the mayhem festival in Bonner Springs, KS THEY KICKED ***! EPIC CONCERT.

[MattConte]

I do not know the Dolezals , personally. So I do not know for a FACT that this car is what they spent that 10k on. I was just speculating because it popped up at the track in their pits with their name on it after that episode. They are a racing family with a bunch of race cars. So they have the "Scratch" to play. They use to have this really nice little blue Vega that i think the mom ran. then the daughter ran it. Then I saw this Nova with, I think the daughter's name on it. Like I said. I do not know them personally. I am just at most of the races around here and see them run all of the time.
Man that Camaro was sweet. Your dad not only should have kept it, but also should have ran with the "Transformers" theme. My daughter is way into the Transformers and LOVES the 75 Bumblebee Camaro. I am putting black stripes on our Camaro because she wanted them on there because of Bumblebee. She is 14 now and has already told me that when she is 16. She wants a yellow 75 Camaro. She even wants to make it all "Junked" up to look like the movie car. She had me take her to a car show a few years ago that had one of the 75 camaro movie cars. I was all over that car with my camera.
Yea we were at the Mayham show last summer. Then we went to see Slipknot again last March. We were going to go to Cali to see them in Hollywood tomorrow, but funds are tight. I raised her on Metal and drag racing. She did not take to the drag race, but went way on the metal side. She is a drummer because of Slipknot and wants to be in bands. That is cool. I use to be in metal bands in the 80s. She said that she will drive the car if we were to get it built and start racing it. But she will not watch the drags at all or go to them anymore. She helps a little on the car. But her choice is to go to her room and play drums. I'm ok with that.
I do not have the cash to tub my Camaro. But I am thinking about in boarding the shocks and mini tub it. Just to get a little more room. I want to race it when we are done with it, but I am not going hard core with it like I was first going to do. I want to keep it street legal and I want to enjoy going to the cruise hang outs. It is going to pull double duty. My first engine is not going to be much. I can only build what I can, but I want the car to be built so that I can up grade to a stronger engine later. So my car will be a bit overkill for the first engine. But that is better then having to cut the car up every time I get a new engine for it. So it is getting a cage and sub frame connectors. The mini tubs yada yada yada.
When we took it off the road back in 97. It was only running high 15s. That was great, seeing that it started out when we first took it to the track to pull a 17.5 LOL. I just kept messing with it. I think it got faster more because I kept making the car lighter and lighter. I also made my own tracking bars that really worked. Hey the X wife and I just had a kid and she stayed home for that first year. I had to make my traction bars if I wanted a set. They worked great. They also looked like I went to LOPER'S and bought them. The good kind, not the "Strap-on" show ones. They worked so good that I will be keeping them. I made them adjustable and the way I would want them. They work great and I can tune them. Later I can go to something like Cal-Tracks if I want to. but I am not so much of a "I got it because it is the gotta have stuff" kind of guy. I am just into having fun with my car and I like building and fabricating most everything on the car myself. I am not much of a store bought parts, car builder. Again, I do this all in fun. I am an old man with a 38 year old car. I ain't ever gonna be taking Jason Line's job from him.
One day the car will be my kids. I do not plan on ever selling it. It was the car that brought her home from the hospital. She will never let me forget that. LOL! It is HER'S. Se told me so. LOL!
matt

[dragster2006]

Originally Posted by MattConte

I do not know the Dolezals , personally. So I do not know for a FACT that this car is what they spent that 10k on. I was just speculating because it popped up at the track in their pits with their name on it after that episode. They are a racing family with a bunch of race cars. So they have the "Scratch" to play. They use to have this really nice little blue Vega that i think the mom ran. then the daughter ran it. Then I saw this Nova with, I think the daughter's name on it. Like I said. I do not know them personally. I am just at most of the races around here and see them run all of the time.
Man that Camaro was sweet. Your dad not only should have kept it, but also should have ran with the "Transformers" theme. My daughter is way into the Transformers and LOVES the 75 Bumblebee Camaro. I am putting black stripes on our Camaro because she wanted them on there because of Bumblebee. She is 14 now and has already told me that when she is 16. She wants a yellow 75 Camaro. She even wants to make it all "Junked" up to look like the movie car. She had me take her to a car show a few years ago that had one of the 75 camaro movie cars. I was all over that car with my camera.
Yea we were at the Mayham show last summer. Then we went to see Slipknot again last March. We were going to go to Cali to see them in Hollywood tomorrow, but funds are tight. I raised her on Metal and drag racing. She did not take to the drag race, but went way on the metal side. She is a drummer because of Slipknot and wants to be in bands. That is cool. I use to be in metal bands in the 80s. She said that she will drive the car if we were to get it built and start racing it. But she will not watch the drags at all or go to them anymore. She helps a little on the car. But her choice is to go to her room and play drums. I'm ok with that.
I do not have the cash to tub my Camaro. But I am thinking about in boarding the shocks and mini tub it. Just to get a little more room. I want to race it when we are done with it, but I am not going hard core with it like I was first going to do. I want to keep it street legal and I want to enjoy going to the cruise hang outs. It is going to pull double duty. My first engine is not going to be much. I can only build what I can, but I want the car to be built so that I can up grade to a stronger engine later. So my car will be a bit overkill for the first engine. But that is better then having to cut the car up every time I get a new engine for it. So it is getting a cage and sub frame connectors. The mini tubs yada yada yada.
When we took it off the road back in 97. It was only running high 15s. That was great, seeing that it started out when we first took it to the track to pull a 17.5 LOL. I just kept messing with it. I think it got faster more because I kept making the car lighter and lighter. I also made my own tracking bars that really worked. Hey the X wife and I just had a kid and she stayed home for that first year. I had to make my traction bars if I wanted a set. They worked great. They also looked like I went to LOPER'S and bought them. The good kind, not the "Strap-on" show ones. They worked so good that I will be keeping them. I made them adjustable and the way I would want them. They work great and I can tune them. Later I can go to something like Cal-Tracks if I want to. but I am not so much of a "I got it because it is the gotta have stuff" kind of guy. I am just into having fun with my car and I like building and fabricating most everything on the car myself. I am not much of a store bought parts, car builder. Again, I do this all in fun. I am an old man with a 38 year old car. I ain't ever gonna be taking Jason Line's job from him.
One day the car will be my kids. I do not plan on ever selling it. It was the car that brought her home from the hospital. She will never let me forget that. LOL! It is HER'S. Se told me so. LOL!
matt

lol yeah that camaro you got is gonna be bitchin when its done! i was looking about a 70 camaro on racing junk that was for 750 before i got the mustang but that thing needed so much work to it. the body was great and all and it had all the parts but i dont think i'd have the time nor the balls to attempt finish it lol heres the picture i took of it... i doesnt look too great but the body was pretty much flawless. just dirty as hell...

[Charlie Yannetti]

I was just sitting around and watching this fiasco.... HEY KID!!!... do yourself a favor... get in touch with some people that race seriously.... Divisional Event and/or National Event style racing.... get on a crew and learn the sport... it really is fun and by doing this you'll see exactly what it is about and get a good direction on where you want to go... and how much it might cost to be competitive...

I HATE all these young guys talking about street cars or street/strip cars... if that's the way you wanna go, you will end up hurting youself, or God forbid, some innocent bystander or pedestrian.... racing is meant to be done on a track... a safe environment... STREET IS NOT NEAT!!!!!

If you wanna cross breed parts and cars, have at it... I'm all about working with what you have... and it sounds like you could put together a really fun bracket car if you stick to it and keep asking questions... you will never know it all, so keeping asking... I'm still learning after 30+ yrs of this stuff...

AND please don't call anyone out... you will learn really fast that there are some of us racers out there just waiting for the opportunity to hurt someone's feelings... RIGHT ED!!!... OK, me too... LOL

Take advantage of those willing to help you on this forum... we are all serious about what we do and would love to help... GOOD LUCK with your project.....

[dragster2006]

Originally Posted by Charlie Yannetti

I was just sitting around and watching this fiasco.... HEY KID!!!... do yourself a favor... get in touch with some people that race seriously.... Divisional Event and/or National Event style racing.... get on a crew and learn the sport... it really is fun and by doing this you'll see exactly what it is about and get a good direction on where you want to go... and how much it might cost to be competitive...

I HATE all these young guys talking about street cars or street/strip cars... if that's the way you wanna go, you will end up hurting youself, or God forbid, some innocent bystander or pedestrian.... racing is meant to be done on a track... a safe environment... STREET IS NOT NEAT!!!!!

If you wanna cross breed parts and cars, have at it... I'm all about working with what you have... and it sounds like you could put together a really fun bracket car if you stick to it and keep asking questions... you will never know it all, so keeping asking... I'm still learning after 30+ yrs of this stuff...

AND please don't call anyone out... you will learn really fast that there are some of us racers out there just waiting for the opportunity to hurt someone's feelings... RIGHT ED!!!... OK, me too... LOL

Take advantage of those willing to help you on this forum... we are all serious about what we do and would love to help... GOOD LUCK with your project.....

i wasnt planning on calling anybody out i was just very offended and pissed off earlier when those guys were saying all of that nonsense because it was uncalled for and i know i said some stufff too but like i said a bunch before... i posted in the bracket part of the forum because i didnt think people would really care much about a chevy engine in a ford know what i mean?

crossbreeding... i dont really refer to it as that... i call it wat you said... working with what i have... just sucks right because of the financial crap... the car is just sitting there... its quite depressing LOL

[pro70z28]

Don't feel too bad. I've been working on mine since 2002 and still have a long way to go.

[bad440]

join the club.its taken me 5 years to collect the parts for my dart.it seemed like forever ,now its time to race.damn,i stillneed a helmet and some slicks.

[MattConte]

Originally Posted by Charlie Yannetti

I was just sitting around and watching this fiasco.... HEY KID!!!... do yourself a favor... get in touch with some people that race seriously.... Divisional Event and/or National Event style racing.... get on a crew and learn the sport... it really is fun and by doing this you'll see exactly what it is about and get a good direction on where you want to go... and how much it might cost to be competitive...

I HATE all these young guys talking about street cars or street/strip cars... if that's the way you wanna go, you will end up hurting youself, or God forbid, some innocent bystander or pedestrian.... racing is meant to be done on a track... a safe environment... STREET IS NOT NEAT!!!!!

If you wanna cross breed parts and cars, have at it... I'm all about working with what you have... and it sounds like you could put together a really fun bracket car if you stick to it and keep asking questions... you will never know it all, so keeping asking... I'm still learning after 30+ yrs of this stuff...

AND please don't call anyone out... you will learn really fast that there are some of us racers out there just waiting for the opportunity to hurt someone's feelings... RIGHT ED!!!... OK, me too... LOL

Take advantage of those willing to help you on this forum... we are all serious about what we do and would love to help... GOOD LUCK with your project.....

Charlie
I respect your views and your time in the sport. You have some very good advice here. But one thing you said here that I quite disagree with you. First all I NEVER suggested that anyone race on the streets when I talked about a Street/Strip car. I have never and never will race on the streets. When I said "Street/ Strip car I ment a car that can be bracket raced and also be driven on the street legally. I am also not a "Young Guy" that has never been in the trenches of race competition. I am 43 years old and have been in all kinds of very competitive race teams over the years. From NHRA to NASCAR Busch Grand National racing.
Also the very first, very real race team I was on and also was a big part of the building of the car. was a full on, very competitive, very serious race car that the owner of that car drove it on the street to the local cruises and sometimes even to work on a nice day. Him doing that was apart of one of our major sponsor's deals. Arizona Speed and Marine wanted to make a point that thier product that we were pushing, is that they made a very streetable and racing competitive product. So the car had to be very streetable. We ran very well in Super Pro back in the late 80s. The car got on the cover of, I think it was Pontiac Magazine. We were also sponsored by Rockford Fosgate so we had allot of responsibility to our sponsors. It was also in the contract that if we were to EVER race on the streets. We would be dropped on the spot. Yes the car was allot of work, but it was fun and very popular at the track. We won or made into many final rounds. This photo was taken at Firebird International Raceway at the 88 Super Chevy Show ( We got in with our Pontiac because we had a Chevy 400 with the 86 Chevy Vette TPI systems that AS&M redesigned and built ground breaking speed parts for those induction systems.) This was my first race team I was on and I hold those times in allot of ways, higher then my NASCAR days. It was the most original race car I have ever been apart of. The car was all street legal, no tubs on DOT slicks and all full on stock interior, 300 lbs of Rockford Fosgate Stereo system and a car phone.(Rockford wanted that) This was the 80s so a car phone stayed in the car. The car went into the high 9s on Nos. I always wondered what we could have done without all of that not needed stuff, but we got paid to have it. BTW I was the guy that always wanted to shed the RF stwereo crap and get the car off of the street. but looking back. That was the part of the car that got us alot of the attention.


The last I heard of this car. It sold in the early 90s at the Barrett/Jackson auto auction. I will say that this car could not have been done without the sponsors.
Rule number on DRAGSTER. Never let ANYONE tell you that it CANNOT BE DONE. It can.

[dragster2006]

Man i bet its awesome being sponsored... hopefully in a few years after the cars done and i've been racing a bit maybe i can get the car sponsored by somebody... it would be kinda cool if mallory ignition could be my sponsor considering thats my last name LOL! about that car in the picture... i would of been trying to get rid of the stereo equipment too lol so it sold on the barret-jackson? thats awesome man. my grandpa had one of his coupes sell on there. so you and him have something in common lol

Originally Posted by MattConte

Charlie
I respect your views and your time in the sport. You have some very good advice here. But one thing you said here that I quite disagree with you. First all I NEVER suggested that anyone race on the streets when I talked about a Street/Strip car. I have never and never will race on the streets. When I said "Street/ Strip car I ment a car that can be bracket raced and also be driven on the street legally. I am also not a "Young Guy" that has never been in the trenches of race competition. I am 43 years old and have been in all kinds of very competitive race teams over the years. From NHRA to NASCAR Busch Grand National racing.
Also the very first, very real race team I was on and also was a big part of the building of the car. was a full on, very competitive, very serious race car that the owner of that car drove it on the street to the local cruises and sometimes even to work on a nice day. Him doing that was apart of one of our major sponsor's deals. Arizona Speed and Marine wanted to make a point that thier product that we were pushing, is that they made a very streetable and racing competitive product. So the car had to be very streetable. We ran very well in Super Pro back in the late 80s. The car got on the cover of, I think it was Pontiac Magazine. We were also sponsored by Rockford Fosgate so we had allot of responsibility to our sponsors. It was also in the contract that if we were to EVER race on the streets. We would be dropped on the spot. Yes the car was allot of work, but it was fun and very popular at the track. We won or made into many final rounds. This photo was taken at Firebird International Raceway at the 88 Super Chevy Show ( We got in with our Pontiac because we had a Chevy 400 with the 86 Chevy Vette TPI systems that AS&M redesigned and built ground breaking speed parts for those induction systems.) This was my first race team I was on and I hold those times in allot of ways, higher then my NASCAR days. It was the most original race car I have ever been apart of. The car was all street legal, no tubs on DOT slicks and all full on stock interior, 300 lbs of Rockford Fosgate Stereo system and a car phone.(Rockford wanted that) This was the 80s so a car phone stayed in the car. The car went into the high 9s on Nos. I always wondered what we could have done without all of that not needed stuff, but we got paid to have it. BTW I was the guy that always wanted to shed the RF stwereo crap and get the car off of the street. but looking back. That was the part of the car that got us alot of the attention.


The last I heard of this car. It sold in the early 90s at the Barrett/Jackson auto auction. I will say that this car could not have been done without the sponsors.
Rule number on DRAGSTER. Never let ANYONE tell you that it CANNOT BE DONE. It can.