[wytnyt]

good lesson learned huh
only race i ever lost was to a ford falcon
i missed 3rd and blew a sycronizer and had to go to 4th
lost my 2 lengths
still not too bad

[b-man]

Originally Posted by wytnyt

good lesson learned huh

Naw, I raced that particular car just for the thrill of racing against a very fast car that was pretty much one of the local legends. Didn't care if I won or lost really, it was solely for the experience.

My VW could handle itself plenty well among the local musclecar contingent. Beat quite a few cars that I wasn't sure I could take, but I put my money down and gave it my best. Among them I spanked a '69 302 Z/28 4-speed, '69 Boss 302 4-speed, '68 Corvette 327 4-speed, '68 Roadrunner 383 auto, '65 Skylark with a 327 (Chev) 4-speed and many others.

That little VW could easily kick the crap out of the newer 'smogger' Trans Ams and 'vettes of the day. I really didn't run into many cars that could take my 13-second VW as 13-second street cars just weren't all that plentiful on the streets back in the late '70s.

Besides, how could I possibly lose face getting beat by a V8 with only a tiny 4-cylinder?

Didn't lose very often, and that little VW was feared by the locals. Because of the low 1st and 2nd gearing they have a high-13s Bug leaves the line like a 12-second V8 car.

[78savette]

1st race in the TA, 2 weekends ago I'm over at a friends who is helping me get my timing right in my 81 w/ a 455 that I'm just getting on the road after 2 yrs of working on it, another friend I havn't seen in about 15 years comes driving up in his 69 Ford truck w/ a 428 Cobrajet motor in it, he's had it since high school but he just got done spending a bunch of $ rebuilding the motor, heads, and rear in it, anyway, we go run em.
Out of the whole we are pretty close, but once the TA gets traction I pretty much took off and leave him, end up beating him in the 1/4 by about 5 or 6 car lengths, he swears I have nitrous, which of course I don't, I saw one of his friends at the store and he told me he's been working on his truck ever since and wants a rematch when he "gets it all right", I told him all this talk about nitrous in the bandit maybe he needs to put it in that Ford if he wants to keep up, we'll see when he gets it all right.

[4dblnkldude]

I'm down in ne phila one night at a gathering of street racers, there was an oriental guy down there I used to work with. He had a 90 Iroc and was beating everything, he raced other guys in their cars, a drop top cuda with 440, a fox body with nitrous and a couple of other cars. Finnaly he asked me if I wanted to be his next victim, sure I said. 100$ and we were racing. We staged up and he heated his street slicks up and I passed on my bfg's. The flag guys arms went down and he got me by two cars in 60'. I caught him by the 1/8 and blew his doors off by about the 1200' mark. I got him by 4 cars at the 1/4. My buddy bitner was in the car with me screaming pontiac power, pontiac power. When we pulled up to the gathering a swarm of people came up to my car wanting to know what i had. I said stock bottom end 455, blackjack headers, performer intake, 13's, a holley 3310, t 350 and 3.23 posi. Everyone asked "wheres the sqeeze" and I said nowhere. Just about that time Jonny came up and shook my hand and " good race that m'fer runs good. His camaro had a 150 shot, 4.10's and a crapload of bolt ons. I was 19 and scraped together all the money I could to get that engine together. That 79 ta did run good but I sold it and now its a tomato can.