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Hell...I'd just like to take my GTO to VIR someday.

[Skip Fix]

I drag raced back in the early 70s winning class in my 409 Impala in a couple of IHRA events. Autocrossed my 78 Trans am pretty heavily with road race slicks and took it to a Porsche road race event at Texas World Speedway in College Station. Still had the 180 hp 400 and 2.56 rear gears. Would only pull 4000 in third on the oval straight. Most of the road course was in 2nd. Then switched it to drag racing in NMCA.
I picked up a Late Model asphalt car -fuel cell area crunched I was going to make a budget road race car just not enough time and money with other projects.

A few Nascar laps would be cool too.

[Sirrotica]

Attica, Fremont and Wayne county are the tracks my wife, and I frequent every year, along with Tony Stewarts, Eldora Speedway. Atomic Speedway in Chillicothe Ohio is also one we travel to often.

Attica is the track within 30 minutes of Norwalk, this is probably my wife and I favorite track that runs 410 cu in and 305 cu in sprint cars, they also run super late models as part of their weekly program.

Once every couple of years we'll make it to Brushcreek Speedway if they're running a winged sprint car show.

One other track we like to attend is Limaland Speedway n Lima OH. The track is owned and run by University Of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) which is a automotive based learning center that has as part of their curriculum, High Performance Motorsports. They actually build and maintain cars that race in the weekly programs featured at the racetrack. Interesting way to learn your trade, as well as having fun doing it.....

The auto mechanics class I attended in high school we had a teacher that built and drove dirt track cars, it made learning much more fun to do it on race cars.

Ohio has it's share of sprint car teams, and also has many dirt tracks that run sprints as part of the weekly program. If you think running ten seconds in a quarter mile is relatively fast, try running it with 4 corners on a dirt surface..........

Of all the forms of motorsports I've participated in, and spectated at, sprint car racing is my favorite. I've never had the opportunity to drive a sprint car, only driven stock cars on dirt, but would love to do it someday before I'm too old to even get in one...........LOL

If I live long enough, I could do one other thing on my bucket list in reference to sprint cars. I'd love to have a Pontiac powered street legal sprint car, but the good Lord will make that decision........

BTW, I tried the Attica site too, (it's on my browser) evidently someone has hacked it, and it's down.

[67Fbird]

Since I have been "working" on my 80 Bird since 1994 I would just like BOTH time and money to actually build it RIGHT! Since that aint happening...I'm currently trowing it together so it drives to teach my boys how to drive a clutch!...Maybe....just MAYBE 1 of the 3 will find this to be exciting as i do. Hopefully none of them get "bit" by the same "excitement bug" that got me as a teen as that lead to many many not so great adventures. Most of those adventures lead to a learning experience that fuels MY need to do something AT THE NEXT LEVEL.
My bucket list would be to have somebody PAY me to build hot rods! Instead of me trying to find time to actually work on mine....If my JOB was building cool stuff I think i would be satisfied.

[Steve C.]

DRIVE a NASCAR RACE CAR!

https://www.nascarracingexperience.com/

I've done it and it was fun.



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[455firebird1969]

I would get a rotary wing rating for my private pilot license and buy a MD500, and see if I could find a race. You said money and time was not limited, if I were ever in that situation, I’d be in a helicopter in a heartbeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2si4h06ZrE

I guess it would be a rare find, a helicopter race that is. In the mean time I would just fly around the country chasing my dreams. I would definitely fly to Alaska for some fishing in the summer. When it comes to performance machines airplanes are my favorite, and when it comes to flying machines, helicopters are my favorite. The helicopter is the ultimate high performance machine in my opinion.

Boat racing would be fun, I always liked boating. I probably don’t have what it takes to drive one really fast though, it probably takes more skill than I can imagine. Unlimited hydroplane racing boats seem to be on the ragged edge of control, every moment they are at speed, especially in the corners.

Yeah, never mind the boat racing. Where’s my MD500.

On a serious note, I have a CJ-7 that I replaced the engine in last year.

I removed the 258 and installed a little inline six bored & stroked to 284 CID (4.7), based on a 4.0 out of a Cherokee. It now has more the twice the power. Next, I’m going to convert it for some serious off roading. Not extreme rock crawling, rather I just want to be able to make it through some tough trails, without breaking.

I already a spare CJ-7 frame for my conversion, and a Ford 9” from an early Bronco for the rear axle and a hi pinion Dana 44 from a mid 90’s Ford Bronco, for the front axle.

When I am finished I plan on taking it to some off-road parks to run some tough trails. It’s not really a competition so to speak, but it is a form of Motorsports.

The bucket list for my Jeep is to take it out West, and run some trails ones day.

[nas t eh]

Finish my bird and road race it locally.
Off Shore powerboat racing,

[mgarblik]

I would like to go to the salt lakes for land speed runs. I would like to be there as a helper or on a crew. Hey Jack, you up for it?

[Mr Anonymous]

Originally Posted by mgarblik

I would like to go to the salt lakes for land speed runs. I would like to be there as a helper or on a crew. Hey Jack, you up for it?

(me too!)

[Tom Vaught]

For being on of the most barren places on earth, (outside of the deserts) it is a very
spiritual experience. Racers should see "Floating Mountain" at least once in their life.

https://octopup.org/utah2005/saltflats

Tom V.

[Jack Gifford]

Originally Posted by mgarblik

... I would like to go to the salt lakes for land speed runs. I would like to be there as a helper or on a crew. Hey Jack, you up for it?...

I hope to visit Bonneville. But racing there is not in the cards. Footing the bill for housing/feeding a crew, etc. plus travel & entry costs is daunting; and costs the same whether track conditions allow any runs or not!
Mike, how about if you volunteer a few weeks of the following winter to totally tear down the lakester, remove all traces of salt, and put it back together- as its former owner and crew had to do after Bonneville 2008.

As for my own bucket list- I've trimmed it down to just one item, so hopefully I'll get it done: Visit Speedy Bill's Museum of American Speed in Lincoln NE for long enough to peruse every single one of its oddball engines- 2 days? 3 days? Since it's in my will for my hemi V8 Pontiac to go there, I really do need to get there. I sort of regret not donating the engine while Bill was still alive.

[Mr Anonymous]

Jack, I'd glad pay my own way.