Picture Thread - Your Street Car On The Race Track
 

Post a picture of your car at the track. I was lucky enough to have a friend who takes professional-quality photos take some shots of my car and give them to me.

Post a pic of your car in the staging lanes if you don't have any pics of it on the track.

Best run for the '64 Tempest pictured below was 13.899 @ 101.85 MPH at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield CA. Drivetrain - 8.2:1 455 w/068 cam, TH400 trans and a 2.56 open 8.2" 10-bolt rear.

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1972 Ventura best pass of 12.64 @ 109 on motor, 11.60@ 117 on 125 shot of nitrous.

Last year at St Thomas Dragway.

ESTA at Cicero NY
 

Attachment 40247269 GTO 12.4@107 in the 1/4 mile

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12.5s on whitewalls.

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Macho 78
 

10.66 @ 128

A couple of my wife enjoying some 11.50 runs at Atco raceway

Great thread! Here are some pics of my 68. I hope to take the 64 to the track later this year.

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Personal best so far of a 13.22 in a breakout run against Jeremy in the first round of eliminations Saturday last year at Norwalk where I lifted at the end knowing I was way too far ahead of him. Hoping for 12's this year - pretty sure the car can do it, just not sure the driver can. ;)

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...6&d=1436706453

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....Adam is coolest pict is Adam yet, because it is a cool 68 chromy huh

The old Goat...2014 at Bradenton Motorsports park, FL... 11.4x at 117mph

Thanks. I really love that look and that year. But in the interest of full disclosure, it's a LeMans with a GTO hood. Which I really loved. Sorry to see it go. But love the better condition of hardware of the new car.

Back in 2001, as a member of the Land 'O Lakes GTO Club, I worked on the committee to put on the GTOAA Nationals. Bill Meyer was the chairman of the Jim Wangers All Pontiac Drags and when he learned that I lived 20 miles from Rock Falls Raceway, he enlisted me to help him.

With zero drag racing experience, and being the "official photographer" for the event, I didn't have much time or talent for spending the day really racing. But I did make a number of passes and had some fun.

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...TO/GTODrag.jpg

A few of mine from Drag Week last year and a link to my photobucket of all the Pontiac pics from Drag Week I could find on the Hotrod website.

http://s61.photobucket.com/user/greg...?sort=3&page=1

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Its not 1/4 mile so I hope its ok here. Goodguys Auto x in DesMoines last weekend....

Video of a run...

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...psur2ei0g6.mp4

Random pics

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My 80 Trans Am with pump gas 455 Eheads and 3.42 gears runs 10.7 @ 125 on motor and 10.2 @ 134 spraying through second and third gear. The 70 Firebird is my brothers RAIV headed 455 that goes 10.5@128 on motor and 9.6@140 on spray.

Those smiles tell the whole story, 'nuff said!:D

My 67 FB at Pontiac Heaven. 14.33. I have easy 13's in it, just waiting to let it out.

Not much to look at, but she's a hell of a good cook!
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Was at that event.....first time the Goat went down the track...been at it ever since...still a nice car to cruise to the beach and even hits Home Depot running errands...reminds me that the paint job is over 15 years old now!

Getting ready to rumble.

You guys are gonna be jealous of the ET/MPH...15.0@92mph. Motor is a tired, original 1966 389 with who knows how many miles. It was a motor pulled from a junk GTO in about 1984, and sat for many years. I have put about 8k miles on it, and used a ton of oil. Someday I will install my 461 though.

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Here is a shot from the walkway at St Thomas..I believe this was taken before a 11.40 pass on a Saturday afternoon last year,track was being cleaned up for 20 minutes.2nd fastest pass so far.My niece Nicole took the picture.

Here is my TA at Kil-Kare Dragway in Xenia, Ohio. Best so far 11.69 @ 113 on Hoosier DOT Quick Times. 3:23 gears, TH-400, 3600 Coan convertor.

My best time is a 14.86 1/4 mile at 93 MPH. That was with bad wheel hop and spin. I still need to learn how to launch this car. My plan is to NEVER go faster than 13.7, technical inspector told me flat out that with a vert they would kick me off of the track at 13.5. To get back on I would need a 6 point roll bar. Do not want to do that with my cruser/show car. All of these pictures are screen captures from the videos.

Radman, consider shooting a PM to Goatless. He posted earlier in this thread, and had 12.5 slips with a vert.

Maybe it's for a closed FAST event or something, but he may be able to give some advice on your 13.5 ceiling.

Between my little buddy in the full interior with a trunk full of sub and amps for the open road. :) http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f49/400PLUS/400-1.jpg

My Lemans convertible was built to be a reliable street-only car with nothing really fancy under the hood. But I did get it to the track a few years ago just to see what it would do. Fuel flow made it run soft once it got into second gear so MPH was down and very inconsistent, ranging from 95 to 100 MPH. I only made 3 passes- I didn't want to hurt it running it lean that hard.

My best run was a 13.6 at only 95 MPH. I really wanted a 13.5 just to get kicked off the track but couldn't quite get there :)

It was night and very dark so my pics have a different look than others posted so far.

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It's really going to depend on where you are, what kind of event, and who you are running with... and accepting that you may get booted at any moment. If Radman's local track told him in advance that they'll give him the boot, then they probably will.

It probably also helps that my car looks totally stock, including under hood.

PSN's 2002..........
474, iron head, 3.23, 4speed
11 something @ 117

13.49 is convertible cutoff tune requiring a roll bar according to NHRA as noted on page 5.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...sCnEdZEFEGMfBA

My time at the '01 Jim Wangers event was somewhere in that vicinity (didn't save the time slip). At the time, I had the stock numbers matching '64 389 4bbl in it. I had a 462 built and installed over 2 years ago, but haven't made it to a strip yet.

12.4 at 109 - falken all season tires, 3.36 gears, 1800 stall = tire spinning fun

First time down the Track ever Norwalk 2007. First pass of the day was my fastest 14.11 with a 3.08 open rearend. Got a few good pictures including a great video of Announcing my name going down the track.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsywgcIF6qA

Launching at Bremerton on its way to a 12.60-something around 107 on 305/50-15 BFG tires:

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Picture of my former 1997 T/A taken July 2005 at the start/finish line at Eriez Speedway. The photo is taken in my hometown, Erie Pa. The picture of my 1967 GTO #35 in my signature was taken at the same track also at the start finish line circa 1976.

Since I never drag raced, this is the only street car picture I have taken at the dirt oval track where I raced for 11 years. My wife took the picture when we were still dating in 2005.

While going out to the racetrack the previous day I just couldn't resist throwing the T/A around the corners for a lap just for old times sake. My wife/girlfriend at the time had no idea I was going to make a lap under speed.................:D
I really didn't either, just seemed like the right thing to do.....................LOL

^ Hadn't thought about a dirt track...

My '64 has more laps around Deer Creek Speedway than some race cars...;) :) ;)

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And definitely has more time in Victory Lane...

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My wife and I run the Kids Club at the track and we have a drawing for a Junior Grand Marshall - the winning kid gets their photo taken in Victory Lane with one of the evenings trophies and the checkered flag and then gets to carry the checkered flag on a parade lap during the National Anthem.

My employer sponsors a race in late May every year and I put the company logos on and take a customer around carrying the American flag and have one of my customers kids carry the checkered flag.

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That is a great photo.

Going around the water box at Steele Alabama's quarter mile YEARS ago. I was running 225/70-14's all around. I had a shot as I left the line and one of the car beside the time/speed sign but I've managed to delete them some way or another. I do have the time slip though. 13.31 @ 103.79 with a 2.04 60 ft.
http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...ntid=20690&d=0

Thanks David!

If I have the "right" kid, I usually ask them if they "want to get behind the wheel". This young lady was one of those "right" kids - and the Kids Club had a face painter (free of charge) for the kids that night too.

Her face "demanded" she get a chance behind the wheel...;)


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Norwalk Ohio, Best 11.59 @ 118mph with me rowing through the gears. ;-)

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Drag Week 2012?
Nice .....2 stick cars.

All American day last year, had a great time.

Here are some pictures of my car from Drag Week last year.
4060 Lbs. TKO 600 5 speed 3.73 rear end
Best time is 11.26 @ 122
Put on 6000 miles in two weeks

thompson drag raceway
 

Pontiac drag day. My first time out at the track.

No biggie,that's faster then my best pass before I rebuilt my original 400. I was 15.2 at about the same MPH. :o

Yup, the pressure plate seized up on me in Denver when I was driving out to Bowling Green in 2013 so failed to make it with the car. I took last year off, and I just re-cammed the engine this summer (it got a new clutch set a few months after DW 2013) and stuck the engine back in last weekend with my DW2015 golden ticket in hand ready to go.

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Some awesome photos for sure. :D