Let’s hear a 340 story
Since we have been over taken by 318 posts lately let me make a 340 post that happened years ago. I bought my house in 1985 and lived with my ex wife till we got married in around 1987. She attended almost every race I entered and loved being around racing. At the time only two girls raced at keystone and she said she would like to try driving sometime but not my high 9 low 10 second duster. My buddy was building a beautiful 1968 (440) barracuda and put his 1970 duster for sale. He needed lots of parts so we did some horse trading and I ended up with the duster. I had some old NASCAR pistons and a Racer Brown solid lift cam so I touched up a set of heads and had a valve job done, fresh transmission, 780 vacuum carb, super hole shot converter and threw it all together. She couldn’t go to test n tune so I went and played around with carb springs and ran 12.20’s. I towed my car to the track next week and she drove hers. We had s/p, pro, modified, (12.00-13.99), street, and trophy. I entered her in modified and she went up for her first pass and went 15 something. After modified would run they would line up on the fire up road for there next pass. I ran up and said what happened. She more or less told me to run my car and she would run hers so I went back to the pits. I put her in trophy class as she was running to slow for modified and she went three rounds and won a trophy.
Since we have been over taken by 318 posts lately let me make a 340 post that happened years ago. I bought my house in 1985 and lived with my ex wife till we got married in around 1987. She attended almost every race I entered and loved being around racing. At the time only two girls raced at keystone and she said she would like to try driving sometime but not my high 9 low 10 second duster. My buddy was building a beautiful 1968 (440) barracuda and put his 1970 duster for sale. He needed lots of parts so we did some horse trading and I ended up with the duster. I had some old NASCAR pistons and a Racer Brown solid lift cam so I touched up a set of heads and had a valve job done, fresh transmission, 780 vacuum carb, super hole shot converter and threw it all together. She couldn’t go to test n tune so I went and played around with carb springs and ran 12.20’s. I towed my car to the track next week and she drove hers. We had s/p, pro, modified, (12.00-13.99), street, and trophy. I entered her in modified and she went up for her first pass and went 15 something. After modified would run they would line up on the fire up road for there next pass. I ran up and said what happened. She more or less told me to run my car and she would run hers so I went back to the pits. I put her in trophy class as she was running to slow for modified and she went three rounds and won a trophy.
