Street Outlaws. Are you guys into it

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back then if you had a 10 sec car you were somebody
Honestly, most of the street races I was around in the mid to late 70s and early 80, if you had a mid to low 13 second car on the street, you would win more than lose. My buddy's 70 Roadrunner, Purple Stripe cam and springs, specs were the one down from the .509, I think .488 lift/284 duration? dual plane aluminum intake w/780 CFM Holley 4bbl and headers. He went from the 3.91 ring and pinion gears to 4.3X in his 8¾ Sure Grip, and a Pistol Grip 4 speed. Centerline wheels and some pretty wide radials. 1st gear was a lot of noise and some forward motion, but if the car he was racing hadn't gapped him yet, 2nd and 3rd were game changers because his Roadrunner was a rocket.
Still, only a 13.XX second car, but most of the races he picked up were high 13s, and even more 14-15 second cars.
There were some solid 12 second cars out on "the scene" but they were known, and even the occasional 11 second car, but those were like unicorns.
 
will be racing at this event,dont care if i win or not

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Honestly, most of the street races I was around in the mid to late 70s and early 80, if you had a mid to low 13 second car on the street, you would win more than lose. My buddy's 70 Roadrunner, Purple Stripe cam and springs, specs were the one down from the .509, I think .488 lift/284 duration? dual plane aluminum intake w/780 CFM Holley 4bbl and headers. He went from the 3.91 ring and pinion gears to 4.3X in his 8¾ Sure Grip, and a Pistol Grip 4 speed. Centerline wheels and some pretty wide radials. 1st gear was a lot of noise and some forward motion, but if the car he was racing hadn't gapped him yet, 2nd and 3rd were game changers because his Roadrunner was a rocket.
Still, only a 13.XX second car, but most of the races he picked up were high 13s, and even more 14-15 second cars.
There were some solid 12 second cars out on "the scene" but they were known, and even the occasional 11 second car, but those were like unicorns.

Heck, we raced anything, it didn't have to be fast. At the same time I had my 440 powered 71 RR I also had a 73 short wheel base Dodge truck. It had a 235 hp 273, four speed and 3.91 gears. I'd leave flat footed on the floor and it would spin about six feet then hunker down and go. A lot of cars that were faster than me got beat because I'd get out on them and they couldn't run me down. I had something at home for the ones that did beat me, made some pretty good money that way.

Some how I survived all that and haven't street raced in a long, long time. There's an old saying "the good Lord looks after small children and fools". I wasn't a small child.
 
11.82 was the best I went in my street strip 340 Duster. I can count the times I lost on about 2 or 3 fingers and I even raced towed in cars. People still walk up to me today and bring up stories about us racing back then. About 1/2 mile from my house we had a brand new divided 4 lane concrete road. Right there started what was referred to as the missing link, a 1.5 mile connector that wasn’t built for years. 25 miles from pittsburgh people had to get off and rarely got back on so we had it almost to our selves. The cops knew we raced there and actually thanked us for not racing in our little town. People came from miles around to race us and one night we had 52 or 54 races. I ran Formula one tires (N50) and they still spun bad. Would have been nice to have a set of today’s radials.
 
11.82 was the best I went in my street strip 340 Duster. I can count the times I lost on about 2 or 3 fingers and I even raced towed in cars. People still walk up to me today and bring up stories about us racing back then. About 1/2 mile from my house we had a brand new divided 4 lane concrete road. Right there started what was referred to as the missing link, a 1.5 mile connector that wasn’t built for years. 25 miles from pittsburgh people had to get off and rarely got back on so we had it almost to our selves. The cops knew we raced there and actually thanked us for not racing in our little town. People came from miles around to race us and one night we had 52 or 54 races. I ran Formula one tires (N50) and they still spun bad. Would have been nice to have a set of today’s radials.
We had a good safe road as well here in Michigan. This one was an entrance ramp onto I-94 freeway, but they built it really long and two lanes wide for some reason. You had enough room for two cars to race perfectly straight with zero possibility of cross traffic or pedestrians before a gentle curve to the right and then both cars only had to slow down enough to freeway speed and merge onto the freeway safely, which had very light traffic in the middle of the night.
Some years ago they "modernized" that entrance ramp. It got moved over and made into a single lane. A small patch of the old concrete still remains in the old location, and it brings back memories each time I drive by there.
 
Used to race my 71 rr 383,750 carb,recurved dist,3.23s. Went about 50/50 on the street. It was probably a mid 14 car at best. Sure was fun.
 
There were cars being trailered to a local street racing spot around me in the early 1980’s so using a trailer isn't something new. And I suppose it was going on long before I was born.

we used to have some video of my dad street racing in 1966 but that film wasn’t transferred to a different media and it is now lost.

Nothing new under the sun. Using a trailer doesn’t make a street car a race car. I will be using a trailer for my car for anything but lock stuff. The wear and tear on valve springs and things isn’t worth it.
For future reference "legacy box" is a company that can do all that transfer stuff
 
I can still see the spit build up on chritiansens sides of his mouth
He did a refinement of pinks all out, at our local 1/8 mile for a couple months, after pao went away.
It was called "one and done" and i wanted to try it, but my car was down at the time.
Christiansen was clearly more interested in the negotiations and the drama, more than the racing, but his shows gave the little guy racers a chance to make a few bucks. For that, i respect him, and miss his shows.
 
He did a refinement of pinks all out, at our local 1/8 mile for a couple months, after pao went away.
It was called "one and done" and i wanted to try it, but my car was down at the time.
Christiansen was clearly more interested in the negotiations and the drama, more than the racing, but his shows gave the little guy racers a chance to make a few bucks. For that, i respect him, and miss his shows.
Yeah you're right about the show & giving the little guy a chance, honestly we could use another show like that with more reasonable cars that the masses could build. We need alot of younger people to get interested or else drag racing could end up like the dinosaurs
 
Ryan Martin is probably my favorite, he doesn't dress or talk like a wanna be thug. You don't see him in peoples faces talking smack or spitting on them, sharp dude with a fast car. He just comes across as a good dude that you'd enjoy sitting down and having a few beers with.

I also like the Bird brothers even though at times they seem to have a dose of short man syndrome.
 
Ryan Martin is probably my favorite, he doesn't dress or talk like a wanna be thug. You don't see him in peoples faces talking smack or spitting on them, sharp dude with a fast car. He just comes across as a good dude that you'd enjoy sitting down and having a few beers with.



At the No Prep races I’ve seenRyan loan out his spare engine and I know these engines cost over 100,000.00 set up and ready to race. And they are very limited in how many passes you get out of each one before freshening them out. I know with coronavirus they canceled some of their racing, but they have been racing. Imagine the struggles they have been fighting to get parts.
 
I agree Ryan Martin is a class act. I'm really not a fan of most of the 405, starting to like the mso crew a little more, even though jj has done some disagreeable deeds on camera he's a pretty helpful guy to all the crews. I did like that dude who drove the blue mustang from Detroit as well.
 
I like Shawn/ Murder Nova, he is the original OG.
In the beginning he was the king of the 405, untouchable.
I'm glad to see he's starting to pick it back up.
 
Ryan Martin is probably my favorite, he doesn't dress or talk like a wanna be thug. You don't see him in peoples faces talking smack or spitting on them, sharp dude with a fast car. He just comes across as a good dude that you'd enjoy sitting down and having a few beers with.

I also like the Bird brothers even though at times they seem to have a dose of short man syndrome.
U said it
I like the exact ones the best they race and could care less about DRAMA ETC ! AND yes both are NON GHETTO
 
Shawn/ Murder Nova, he is the original OG.
In the beginning he was the king of the 405, untouchable.
Yep. Like I said, my wife and I really enjoy the shows, we went to Memphis International Raceway for a "No Prep Kings" weekend event and made a "mini vacation" out of it. Although I had met Farmtruck and Azn before Memphis at a huge local car show in New Orleans, and they were entertaining and funny and off stage genuine, funny, and appreciative of their fans, we both spent a few minutes with them at NPK in Memphis, and again, just really cool, funny, genuine guys. We are going to see if we can plan another "mini vacation" and each drive our cars, my Roadrunner and her GTO to their Firehouse Shop in Oklahoma, and visit with them. I'd even "bet" them to race each of us, knowing they have WAY faster vehicles, just to have the pleasure of racing them.
I have also met Chuck, Ryan, Bobbie, and a few others at my local Gulfport Dragway. Ryan IS a classy guy.
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Finally caught “the making of street outlaws” on the DVR.... pretty cool watching when they were low5 high 4’s back in the day.
 
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