School me on Stock Eliminator?
Maybe it's because I'm so friggin' O-L-D, but it was a lot more fun back then...maybe, because it didn't COST so danged much!!!
Of course, we didn't go very fast then, but any street car that ran quicker than 15 flat was awesome....
Now, a 2009 front-wheel-drive, Toyota Camry V6 will run the quarter in the low 14's @ 100 mph with an automatic, right off the showroom floor (info from Car and Driver road test.) A soccer-mom/grocery-getter car...
We had a '35 Pontiac coupe with a 345 cu. in. Olds with 3 two-barrells, an Engle cam, a Hydro-Stick (4-speed racing automatic) and 8" slicks, and ran it for 3 years and NEVER got it to run 100... and, it was competitive (locally.)
Now, I've got more invested in aftermarket axles, wheels and slicks for my Valiant, than we had in that whole car!!!
Like I said... it was more fun, back then...
(yeah, that's me (the fat one) in the pic, in 1959...)
Maybe it's because I'm so friggin' O-L-D, but it was a lot more fun back then...maybe, because it didn't COST so danged much!!!
Of course, we didn't go very fast then, but any street car that ran quicker than 15 flat was awesome....
Now, a 2009 front-wheel-drive, Toyota Camry V6 will run the quarter in the low 14's @ 100 mph with an automatic, right off the showroom floor (info from Car and Driver road test.) A soccer-mom/grocery-getter car...
We had a '35 Pontiac coupe with a 345 cu. in. Olds with 3 two-barrells, an Engle cam, a Hydro-Stick (4-speed racing automatic) and 8" slicks, and ran it for 3 years and NEVER got it to run 100... and, it was competitive (locally.)
Now, I've got more invested in aftermarket axles, wheels and slicks for my Valiant, than we had in that whole car!!!
Like I said... it was more fun, back then...
(yeah, that's me (the fat one) in the pic, in 1959...)
