X /Stock ?

[Mark Yacavone]

26 lbs. per.
RWD V8, 6, or 4
Stick or auto..100# extra for stick
Around 17.00 index.
Who would support it?
Who would build one?
Who just fell asleep reading this?

[stage1scott]

I'm not gonna build one-or anything else for that matter but I remember having my butt kicked several times by the X/S "Horse sense" Pinto in the mid 70s in my B/S 396 L78 Chevelle. Man I hated that car! we used to call it the "horse-***** pinto" Of course this was when I raced a car that I loved, instead of studying the guide and building a car that could win-IIRC the hp factor for my iron head L78 was 415 hp at the time with stock axles and a Muncie 4 speed. I learned how to repair that 12 bolt and that trans in the dirt at midnight pretty quickly.....
it's an interesting concept though I would watch em and root for them!

[Dave Noll]

Why not? Yes! Rowing gears is more fun.

[340Cuda]

Originally Posted by stage1scott

I'm not gonna build one-or anything else for that matter but I remember having my butt kicked several times by the X/S "Horse sense" Pinto in the mid 70s in my B/S 396 L78 Chevelle. Man I hated that car! we used to call it the "horse-***** pinto" Of course this was when I raced a car that I loved, instead of studying the guide and building a car that could win-IIRC the hp factor for my iron head L78 was 415 hp at the time with stock axles and a Muncie 4 speed. I learned how to repair that 12 bolt and that trans in the dirt at midnight pretty quickly.....
it's an interesting concept though I would watch em and root for them!

Yes I got my head handed to me by a Pinto at an AHRA race back then. Probably the same guy.

[FireSale]

Derrick Elam runs a Pinto wagon around here in D6. I looked it up and he bought it from Marty Buth. So, there are two who don't laugh at the idea. It's a W/SA. Very clean. One of the first OHC engines in a production car (I think).

[Jerry Terry]

I think that was Tom Rieder (Horse Sense) from Michigan I think he worked at ford or was a sub contractor for them those cars were way fast back then.




Jerry
Retired 3490 3492 STK SS SST

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by FireSale

Derrick Elam runs a Pinto wagon around here in D6. I looked it up and he bought it from Marty Buth. So, there are two who don't laugh at the idea. It's a W/SA. Very clean. One of the first OHC engines in a production car (I think).

Under this proposal, a car that was a natural W car , could drop down to X.

[TGould]

X/S was a 23 lb class until NHRA eliminated X,Y,Z in 1983 to make room for the FWD cars. In 1978 Stan Welch (Hobby Horse ?) set the X/S record at 15.25 and I think won the Gators one year. Or, it may have been Dan Rockwell.

Tom Reider was a Design Engineer at Ford. He and Mel Wallace, a Mechanical Engineer at Ford, formed the Reider and Wallace race team .

[1matcoman]

Originally Posted by Jerry Terry

.........those cars were way fast back then.

Huh?

(j/k Jerry, we know what you meant. Just got a chuckle out of what you said.)

[cicero819]

Come on Mark, you still have one more in you to build.I'm sure that your local junkyards have one in their inventory and in good shape.Claude R.