My 15 year old son and I have been working on an old FWD 4 cylinder stock car together for a while. Totally out of my element on these, I'm used to V-8 rear wheel drive racers.
Friday we lugged it to the track for the first time for some fun. Started 4th and finished 2nd in our heat of 8 cars, and started on the pole and finished 9th of 23 in the feature.
The clay track was really tacky in the features so the V-6 cars that really out-powered us were able to run straight to the front. We held our own with cars more equivalent to ours, and did it with about 1/5 the budget and investment they had in theirs.
Not bad for the first time racing in over a decade and in a totally new-to-me division. We had a blast.
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Brake Weight wrote:I didn’t know there was FWD dirt track cars.
Rear wheel full frame "stock" cars are going the way of the dinosaur here. It's like milsurps...finite supply and they haven't been factory produced in a good while. You're hard pressed to even find parts at the local scrap yards any more.
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Cool for you and your son. I don't go to race tracks anymore of any kind. I remember how it was and the next stop would be to start kicking out windows and buy tubing. It's in the blood.
Longcolt44 wrote:Cool for you and your son. I don't go to race tracks anymore of any kind. I remember how it was and the next stop would be to start kicking out windows and buy tubing. It's in the blood.
Boy I know how that is. I'm a third generation driver, and I can't seem to get away from it.
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Brake Weight wrote:I didn’t know there was FWD dirt track cars.
Rear wheel full frame "stock" cars are going the way of the dinosaur here. It's like milsurps...finite supply and they haven't been factory produced in a good while. You're hard pressed to even find parts at the local scrap yards any more.
Depends on were you look, I still have some RWD Crown Vics and Lincoln town cars on the lot
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steelbuttplate wrote:The crown Vics and Lincoln would reign supreme in the Demo derby .
Exactly. Its the 78-87 GM midsize cars that dominate the dirt stock car division if they are available.
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racerguy00 wrote:
Boy I know how that is. I'm a third generation driver, and I can't seem to get away from it.
From the grin on your son's face it looks like he's going to be the 4th generation. Good for you and have a great time.
Damn, I'll bet that's going to leave a mark! Probably hurt too!
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“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
I think the secret of the Vic was he had a dog showing the safest route and the trunk being open must create one hell of a down force on those rear tires.
Longcolt44 wrote:I think the secret of the Vic was he had a dog showing the safest route and the trunk being open must create one hell of a down force on those rear tires.
That could be. I just thought the dog was too smart to actually ride with him.
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Longcolt44 wrote:I think the secret of the Vic was he had a dog showing the safest route and the trunk being open must create one hell of a down force on those rear tires.
That could be. I just thought the dog was too smart to actually ride with him.
Good one M, that is a laugh out loud soda spitting post.
