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

69camz28 · 01-01-2014, 01:05 AM

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

Pentastar340 · 01-01-2014, 01:41 AM

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

Geerhead55 · 01-01-2014, 01:42 AM

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

01-01-2014, 01:05 AM	#1
69camz28 Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 148 Likes: 1 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Silly Season II What was your 1st Street car &/OR race c 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

01-01-2014, 01:41 AM	#2
Pentastar340 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: L.A. Posts: 58 Likes: 2 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Silly Season II What was your 1st Street car &/OR race c 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

01-01-2014, 01:42 AM	#3
Geerhead55 VIP Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Tacoma, Washington Posts: 1,632 Likes: 0 Liked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Silly Season II What was your 1st Street car &/OR race c 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