how did you get your mopar?

well here is my most meroable race its a bit of a long story but worth reading '
i was intersted in buying my 74 duster, So i meet the guy who owned the car in cayuga on . sunday sept long week end
we were talking about the car, he said if u want to buy it u should try it
so i said ok i will try it tomorrow on monday at test n tune
he said no he had to go home on sun to spend the day with family, so if i wanted to try it it had to be now
so he went to buy back in and left me with the car, he was running street class and running constance 12.56
when he came back he said they called our class so we have to go now i got in and at the time i never knew much about cars or racing ,so i get in and we are going to the staging lanes and he is teaching me how to use the shifter (husrt rachet shifter)
and as we are going to the burn out box he is teaching me how to use the line lock.now let me explain the tach was under the dash sorta so i had to look down to see it and no shift light
i do a half *** burn out and stage last thing i asked was what to luanch at and what to shift at 1,800 and shift at 5,500
so off i go looking down at the tach shifted into second and looked up and relized the car was going to the left so straighten it out shifted to third and still watching the tach not knowing at the time that the car would come thru the big end reving over 5,500 so when the tach got to 5,600 or so i thought i did somthing wrong so i shifted again and it went in to nutural so i let off shifted back in to third and hit it again when all was said and done i ran a 13.01 and won the race so when i go back buddy asked me what happen and i told him.
so he said buddy u missed a shift went a 1/2 second slower than i have be running all day and still won the race Wow
he said he was not sure he was selling the car but after getting in the car for the first time and doing what i did he said the car is yours if you want it , you are one hellava driver and i know you will treat the car right so when i got my cash together in early november i went south to buy it and have had it since.

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