Post up your older Drag Cars

[Keith Richards]

This was a friends car I drove at one of the "Pinks All Out" here at Sonoma. My Challenger broke the Dana 60 and one of my buddies tossed me the keys to this and said "Drive it"! Fun car that only ran 11.60's.

 

[Keith Richards]

Here is another one I found and got in some horse trading deals, never ran it and I think the guy I sold it too was taking it back to his home in Australia.

 

[Boris]

Looking at this thread reminds me that I've never really been good at documenting my racing. I've just been busy racing. I need to drag out what pics I do have of my stuff from back when and convert them to digital.
Here's the only race car of mine that I have any good pics of. I bought it in '14 so it's not exactly from waaayyyy back. Pretty cool car though.

We ran 3.70's @ 205-210 with it. It ate time and it ate money but it was a fun car to race. 100% family racing. I did the engine work and tuned it. My son drove and worked with me on anything the car needed. My wife and DIL packed the chutes, pulled him into the beams, etc. Good times.
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And they call the Demon the "King of ICE"

Thats bad ass. Always wanted a Top Dragster or Top Sportsmen car. Someday.
The 55 Chevy body is the cherry on top.

 

[Keith Richards]

Last one for now, This was in my garage for awhile and while I never ran it I raced against it many times. It ran low 10's with a pretty nice small block 408 and PG.

 

[Boris]

Lot of memories in these pics.

 

[SilverBillet]

Had this one for almost 24 years. It was a real A12 (440-6) 4 speed car.

 

[TNREDEYE]

Here's one from a while back. It's the white Firebird. We ran OL 10.5 with it back when it was a real class. 25.2 chassis, 700+ inches, 4 stages of nitrous. It ran 4.50's @ 3000lbs. This was a really fun class until the rules stretching and the no b*lls tech guys killed it. I think I have a bunch of pics of it somewhere but I have no idea where to look. I lifted this one from the internet. I think it's the only cover we ever made with any of our cars.

 

[TNREDEYE]

That's way more expensive than I could afford to run. Billet hemi? Bad-Ass!!

The AJ stuff was billet. We also ran some "forged billet" blocks from BAE. Both were good stuff. The AJ blocks were whittled out of a 900lb chunk of aluminum!

 

[Unholy707]

This was a friends car I drove at one of the "Pinks All Out" here at Sonoma. My Challenger broke the Dana 60 and one of my buddies tossed me the keys to this and said "Drive it"! Fun car that only ran 11.60's.

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Did you lose it?

 

[Keith Richards]

Did you lose it?

All Out was a format were they would get as many to show up as possible (usually 300 - 400 cars) and pick the 16 closest cars off of two qualifying passes (no time slips). That number always seemed to be low to mid 10 second cars so did not make it into the program at 11.60.

 

[EricG]

Super awesome thread, love all the pictures!

 

[Keith Richards]

Here is the ad Ram did with our car in 2010 (they used it in 2011 as well), pretty much was there changing the Dodge name to RAM at that time as well.
I am also linking a video from back then I made of the picture taking and videoing experience, notice how the truck in the pictures is maroon. There plan was to digitize my Hemi Orange car black for the ad, but during the day the exec's there told me they loved the Hemi Orange so much they were going to digitize the truck black instead which they did.