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07-14-2010, 08:46 AM
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Re: Who has raced the same car the longest time
Raced my 73/74 Ventura / GTO from August of 1973 to a few years ago .........Sure wish I had it back - best racer I ever owned .
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07-14-2010, 09:22 AM
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Re: Who has raced the same car the longest time
Jack: first off...nice hair!
anyway, the Winners Circle (congrats) shows billboard with Wally's, but by your car is a different trophy....were Wally's restricted to Eliminator winner? |
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07-14-2010, 09:30 AM
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PS -- And I still have that much hair .......but its a different shade now.
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07-14-2010, 10:50 AM
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Re: Who has raced the same car the longest time
My 65 Mustang has been in my family since new.
Original 289 Hipo K code 4 speed car with a factory vinyl top. It was raced occasionally by my older brother and became a class car right after he gave it to me in 1971. Except for a hiatus in the 80's, I have raced it since .
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07-14-2010, 11:49 AM
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Re: Who has raced the same car the longest time
Art & Jan Peterson still race the GTO that they took on their honeymoon in 1969, not sure when he bought it.
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07-14-2010, 05:07 PM
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Yep -- This is the car -- at the time it was a R/SA ......And I drove it to the track -- almost a hundred miles -- uncorked the exhaust - changed the rear tires to Concordes and away we went .Short field -- 129 entries ........The late Mike Smith was in the other lane at Englishtown when he redlit in the final with his SuperStock Magazine sponsored "Project Six Pack" C/S Roadrunner. BTW -- This photo was taken at Cayuga, Ontario, Canada -- long before it became Toronto Motor Sports Park .
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07-14-2010, 07:00 PM
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Re: Who has raced the same car the longest time
Here are our pictures of some of the cars you 're talking about.
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07-14-2010, 07:16 PM
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Re: Who has raced the same car the longest time
Our 68 Camaro, we bought it in March of 72 ,just so I could run INDY Nationals before I lost my other leg. Thank 'GOD' that didn't happen. I was class r/u at the 74 Sportsnations [lost to Felker]& the 74 Springnts[ Lost to Carl Holbrook] We ran it in SS/HA till after the 75 Winternationals, when Bill Felker who was buillding our engines said " Why don't you get a 69 body & I'll run SS/ga and you run SS/ha with the 69. So we took the drive train out of the 68 & put it in a 69 body we bought.
So we did, I put the 68 in the back of our garage till June of 06 when our son Tony restored it for us . We now go to cruise in with it 396-325, right intake & heads, plus the " Hooker headers we ran in 72... |
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