whats cooler a show car or a drag car

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Duster Drag Car

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Whats more fun to build a show car or a drag car, ive been to a bunch of car shows and saw some realy nice cars but found the overall experience boring and it gets old fast, shiny cars posing . Id rather see tires smoking and hear the motors winding out through the gears. Most car show guys baby there cars, i thought they were called muscle cars for a reason.
 
Duster Drag Car said:
Whats more fun to build a show car or a drag car, ive been to a bunch of car shows and saw some realy nice cars but found the overall experience boring and it gets old fast, shiny cars posing . Id rather see tires smoking and hear the motors winding out through the gears. Most car show guys baby there cars, i thought they were called muscle cars for a reason.
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A show DRAG CAR

Have a buddy with a 66 pro street Coronet but he shows it. Car was built for one of the drag series, caged, tied and built right.

Have tried to talk him into taking it down the track but so far he hasn't. Doesn't want to have to clean the rubber off it.

Personally I think he is kind of afraid of hammering it has some big tubs and he doesn't have drag tires for it and if he did it might need wheelly bars or drag the bumper if it hooked up, yeah got the motor for that too.

He isn't afraid of the power or speed, just keeping it straight. Has a 11.8 sec. SRT4 and 12 sec. 392 Challenger

Read years ago about the show cars and how many are now built to SHOW & GO so when you get tired of the shows go racing.
My Dart has a healthy 340, not a race car, but could have fun if I wanted, but like to drive it
 
I can take my 'net to a show and then drive to the track and put half the sportsman crowd back on the trailer.
 

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It's cheeper [not in building either] to have a show/driver, less chance of breaking stuff just driving to shows and doing some sprited driving occasionally, but i have to admit racing is much more fun than sitting by your car at a show.
 
I'd rather watch cars run down the track than see them parked in a field with the owner passed out in a lawn chair behind his car. However it really really sucks when something breaks at the track and a show quality drag car hits the guard rail.
 
I prefer the street/strip show cars. Everyone has different taste when it comes to car shows and race cars. Building a drag car is probably easier than restoring a classic. I actually enjoy them both.
 
I would have to say, a car that does both. I have taken my Duster to about 5 or 6 shows so far, and this coming year I plan on trying my hand at Drag Racing as well. I must admit, I'm a little nervous about taking it to the track, as I've never raced a car on the strip before, but it looks and sounds like way too much fun not to give it a tryl!
 
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I would have to say, a car that does both. I have taken my Duster to about 5 or 6 shows so far, and this coming year I plan on trying my hand at Drag Racing as well. I must admit, I'm a little nervous about taking it to the track, as I've never raced a car on the strip before, but it looks and sounds like way too much fun not to give it a tryl!
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Neither. I don't want a professional parking car or strictly a drag car. Sit in staging lanes for three hours to get a run in that's over in under 12 seconds. That's as boring as a damn car show.

Give me a cruiser. One that can run on regular gas and get in the muddled to upper teens mpg wise. One that I can pack the family into and go anywhere I want. That's the best car for me.
 
raced in my younger day but when family came I found it to be too expensive to maintain. Not many good things are inexpensive and stuff doesn't break on a schedule. I have also worked at a shop and helped build many award winning cars for shows.

Show cars and race cars can be built at different levels... Question is where do you want to go?

I will now keep my restifcation car and drive it anywhere and everywhere. I have many friends and accounts at the shows and in the car scene in general. So for me a show is not sitting beside my car getting a tan. It gets me out of the house and networking with friends and people, stimulating my brain. I am normally one of the few Mopar's at the show.
 
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Neither. I don't want a professional parking car or strictly a drag car. Sit in staging lanes for three hours to get a run in that's over in under 12 seconds. That's as boring as a damn car show.

Give me a cruiser. One that can run on regular gas and get in the muddled to upper teens mpg wise. One that I can pack the family into and go anywhere I want. That's the best car for me.
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X2 on that.
 
I like to have my cake and eat it to. While I'm not about to drive across the country I do drive it locally when ever I can. Car shows can be a great place to meet and talk to new people and take home a trophy once in a while. But nothing beats driving to the track, running a high 10 and driving home.
 

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:burnout:a drag car that you can bring to shows.My 1970 cuda I bought 25 years ago for $600 ,it was a 340 4 speed hemi orange cuda.I fixed it up as a prostreeter with a 440 bored .40 and steel heads ,headers but tubbed with plum crazy purple paint.Then faze 2 I took the 440 out and put a 392 hemi ,injected with injectors.Then faze 3 I made it a all out drag car, I redid the tubs and built a full tube frame for it.parchute and wheelie bars to ,It ran 10.20s with a old steel megablock,but with good stuff and open headers.faze4 I blew the engine up and I replaced it with a new rebuilt 440 megablock with mopar alum. heads,fully ported.faze 5 I put indy heads on it with all 90s performance parts and raced it until 2003 when racing around 9.90s it had mustang 2 frontend and a street dana and almost all of the int. Faze 6 I tore it apart in 2003 and put new updated front end for drag racing only and with disk brakes ,as for the rear I cept it the same but put more gear into it,I also put a fiberglass trunklid,hood and fenders.It went around 9.50s. Faze 7 ,2005, i tore it apart again and rebuilt the engine ,cut the fenderwells out,put all lexan windows in it and I made all of the int. tin.I also put fiberglass doors in it and it went 9.00 to 9.10 all day long ,Faze 8 2007 I took out the rear end and put a moser 60 with coil overs and new wheel tubs,Certified it to 8.50 nhra,put all electric boxes in it, and gave it a all custom airbrushed and marbleized paint job.ect,ect I guess what im saying is that you can have both,but if you really want to be free with what you can do to it .I would go dragcar all the way ,heres some pics only have updated ones
 

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it really pays off!
 

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Both are good in my opinion as long as they are drove the way they were built to be drivin. I love asking guys with huge blowers sticking out of their hoods covered in chrome what their car runs. Most of the time the response is I have no idea or my car will never go to the track. Thats like buyying a 60 inch plasma and never turning it on.
 
neither......id rather see cars tastefully restored and drivers. Survivors are also some of my favs at the shows.

usually at car shows half the show is over at the swap meet or on the roads around the car shows. my 2 cents
 
Neat street car for me thanks. Can take it to show & the engine will make it go. Full on drag car - NO, Full on Show - NO
 
Give me a cruiser. One that can run on regular gas and get in the muddled to upper teens mpg wise. One that I can pack the family into and go anywhere I want. That's the best car for me.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I agree 100% with Joe on this:cheers:
I like to see them all, but I like to drive mine.
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Both are good in my opinion as long as they are drove the way they were built to be drivin. I love asking guys with huge blowers sticking out of their hoods covered in chrome what their car runs. Most of the time the response is I have no idea or my car will never go to the track. Thats like buyying a 60 inch plasma and never turning it on.
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exactly ,I go racing and see cars there just for show.tow them in ,dont race them and the tow them out.
 
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