'70's life
I don't know about the 70's but mid 80's I was street racing every weekend in a 66 dart gt convertable.13 to 1 compression 750 holley torker intake fenderwell headers full manual auto trans with 4:30 geared 8 3/4 12 point cage and we got to run against florida's finest in their 5.0 mustangs ( had to let them win though )...theyd show up and check for drugs or alchohol and then they'd let us run at the old barge canal in inglis till the cows came home,we never raced for money just for the racing itself,had a few trailer queens show up wanting to race for $$$ but they did'nt ever get out of the trailer there were about 15 regulars with everthing from 283 4 speed gremlins to caddy powered nova's 429 mavricks to 70 chevelles a 65 belvedere four door with a tunnel rammed 440 my dart vert an a m c rebel machine that the guy who owned it liked to talk way to much smack about my old dart...He He he...gave him a rolling five car start and put ten on him...the maverick was the hot shoe he had slicks and could get out of the hole my dart had g 60 14's on it and he'd dump me about five cars out of the hole but you could barely squeeze a crushed toyota between us at the finish.last time i showed up to race the mavrick I brought a pair of pro tracs on ford wheels and asked him if he'd run me with em on his car, you know the deal..........that was the last time I brought my car out to racethat was about 20 years ago,I'm currently getting the duster ready to go to the drag strip will see how that goes
I don't know about the 70's but mid 80's I was street racing every weekend in a 66 dart gt convertable.13 to 1 compression 750 holley torker intake fenderwell headers full manual auto trans with 4:30 geared 8 3/4 12 point cage and we got to run against florida's finest in their 5.0 mustangs ( had to let them win though )...theyd show up and check for drugs or alchohol and then they'd let us run at the old barge canal in inglis till the cows came home,we never raced for money just for the racing itself,had a few trailer queens show up wanting to race for $$$ but they did'nt ever get out of the trailer there were about 15 regulars with everthing from 283 4 speed gremlins to caddy powered nova's 429 mavricks to 70 chevelles a 65 belvedere four door with a tunnel rammed 440 my dart vert an a m c rebel machine that the guy who owned it liked to talk way to much smack about my old dart...He He he...gave him a rolling five car start and put ten on him...the maverick was the hot shoe he had slicks and could get out of the hole my dart had g 60 14's on it and he'd dump me about five cars out of the hole but you could barely squeeze a crushed toyota between us at the finish.last time i showed up to race the mavrick I brought a pair of pro tracs on ford wheels and asked him if he'd run me with em on his car, you know the deal..........that was the last time I brought my car out to racethat was about 20 years ago,I'm currently getting the duster ready to go to the drag strip will see how that goes