Remember when we were young and this was the look we were going for.

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We would joke about it. "If you can't stand behind it and see the radiator cap, it aint jacked up high enough". LOL
 
I love the look myself also. Tennessee Thunder Demon is my hero and inspiration.

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1WildRT said:
Looks like some white paint on the springs and gas tank too... Use to see that a lot.... Never cared for it but saw it a lot....
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Yeah, had the Plymouth heart painted on the pumpkin. When I was 18, probably didn't care who liked it.
 
qkcuda said:
Nobody narrowed rear ends, mini tubbed or had custom offset wheels back then. If you wanted big tires, you jacked it up for clearance. Ask me how I know:)
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Old Homie built a V8 Vega, when Vegas were still young :steering: He put the narrowest GM 10 or 12 bolt he could find under it and some big Cragars and then made the necessary ride height adjustment. Needless to say there was a substantial amount of tire hangin' out in the breeze. He took the little booger over the pass to the big city to hit San Bernardino Racing, one of the very early Super Shops. He was on the freeway and got lit up by CHP. He knew he was in trouble when he looked in the side view mirror and the LEO was resting his foot on the drive tire while writing the ticket :lol:.
 
My 66 race car with an A body 8 3/4, MP 1" offset spring package and 10 inch slicks (all second hand). There was rust around the wheel arches, so I didn't feel bad about a little clearancing. We did what we had to do with limited funds.

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Unconventional said:
Old Homie built a V8 Vega, when Vegas were still young :steering: He put the narrowest GM 10 or 12 bolt he could find under it and some big Cragars and then made the necessary ride height adjustment. Needless to say there was a substantial amount of tire hangin' out in the breeze. He took the little booger over the pass to the big city to hit San Bernardino Racing, one of the very early Super Shops. He was on the freeway and got lit up by CHP. He knew he was in trouble when he looked in the side view mirror and the LEO was resting his foot on the drive tire while writing the ticket :lol:.
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Love that story! I put together a '72 V8 Vega that was a lot of fun back then. My story was when I left work about midnight one night the cops were waiting for me when I lit em up on Central avenue. We started talking after he pulled me over and I think he was more interested in my car than giving me a ticket.
Anyway, he went back to his vehicle with my driver's licence and some silly *** hot rodder went flying by us, so there goes the cop chasing him still with my driver's license! So I started to chase him not knowing there were Two cop cars behind me! And the one cop is running behind me hollering at me, stop! Which I did and long story short, I only got a fix it ticket for my mufflers. Lol
 
IF you look at my car in my avatar- I went the opposite back in those days. This car has been dialed at 9.90 to 11.90 depending on motor and track. I am going to put it back into the 9s , because that is the money class here, have to make the bars legal though. FYI I have had this car since 1984
 
More true to life in 1976:

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Even the gas per gallon price was priced right in 1976, at the Union 76 gas station.

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My high school car (1978-ish) was this '69 Satellite (purchased originally by my grandparents, then my parents, then my older sister and finally ME!). It had the requisite Cragar SS wheels paired with Gabriel hiJACKERS. Check out the MOPAR pentastar backboard! Great memories!

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Cruisingram said:
IF you look at my car in my avatar- I went the opposite back in those days. This car has been dialed at 9.90 to 11.90 depending on motor and track. I am going to put it back into the 9s , because that is the money class here, have to make the bars legal though. FYI I have had this car since 1984
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That's awesome! How many tracks do you have to choose from there?
 
Great pics! Love the stance from the day. Was never a question. I had to try to get it with the Duster. Totally dig stock and restored Dusters. But old habits are hard to break.

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Scamp Rhonda said:
That's awesome! How many tracks do you have to choose from there?
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Well, on the big island we have one. In Alaska, there was one. IN Alaska, the biggest class was "top street" which was 10.00-11.99, at least 30 cars every weekend in that class- so that was where the money was! Here in Hawaii, the "full" class is the 8.99-9.99 here, with at least 30 cars every race weekend. Hawaii is an odd duck- the track is actually owned by the county, rather than private. It has a good and bad thing about it as well. The location itself is kinda odd- it's in a rain forest, so rainouts common! But you have all year. In Alaska, you had about 13 weekends packed into a summer, and hoped there was no rainouts. Here you can race nearly every weekend, and there are two sanctioning bodies, and points are only every month. Oahu had one, the reason I moved her actually, that was shut down in the early 2000s. Maui has one as well, a very nice one. I believe Kaui does as well.
 
DartGTDan said:
My high school car (1978-ish) was this '69 Satellite (purchased originally by my grandparents, then my parents, then my older sister and finally ME!). It had the requisite Cragar SS wheels paired with Gabriel hiJACKERS. Check out the MOPAR pentastar backboard! Great memories!

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Sweet Satellite! Pentastar on the backboard, ma Mopar would be proud!
 
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