Drag racing thread

One of Tripp's many "incidents" They ran that car on kill all the time and it could burn on any given run. 



 
onanysunday said:
Post anything cool in regard to drag racing here. My favorite is Big Daddy. Here he is hanging out in his shop.  https://fb.watch/bvHNV7bLPz/   Great book about him during the golden era of drag racing. 

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Big Daddy (Don) Garlits was my introduction to drag racing as a kid. First time to a drag strip I saw him race and got a huge Pro Winter Nationals poster of the pic below autographed by the man.  😁

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Cool inside look. How can you not like Clay Millican?



 
Nothing like the top fuel cars ripping by you at 300+mph.  I went to the Winter Nationals in Pomona about 4 years ago.  It was fun.  

 
Ive been a drag racer for just about all of my life.  my second car is the Yellow VeeWee.  simple 1776, with Dual Solex Carbs.  I beat the crap out of that car & learned a few things in the process. 

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Not actually my car............  I helped build this with my boss (His money, my labor).  for a while, it was one of the fastest street cars on the island. 

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my first "post Navy" hot rod.  69 Datsun 2000 with a Furd 302 & a C4.  Cool little car. 

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My 71 Camaro that had a 383 with a 750 carb, TH350 & a small plate system. 

Then an EFI Motor with an Accell Super Ram & a TH700R4. 

I miss this car.  I sold it to a guy "up in LA". 

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My youngest "helping" with Maint. 

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Then I decided I was going to "go fast".  66 Chevelle, 68 Caprice 427 with cast Iron heads & a 250+ plate system.  it was bitchen fun & again I learned a bunch.

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Goofing around.  LOL.

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Then I thought I was going to build a blow through turbo system.  It never turned a tire..........  I build both the hot & cold side on this.  uber cool project.  Wish I finished it.

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then I decided I was going to "help some folks out".

I helped a buddy for a year or so with his 275 drag radial car.  then I moved onto a different buddy with a 91 Rustang where we ran OL10.5.  nasty 426 CI SBF with Twin 88's.  Bitchen car.  

Then a guy I used to race with asked if I would help with his Pro-Mod.  Long story short, this was a 68 camaro that got crashed @ SCSN by the idiot that was running the car.  Derrol the owner got Bickel to put a 70 body on it & we raced it with a clutch & a 737/747/??? Nitrous motor & 4 kits.  Joe Lepone Jr. got involved in the car & he came on as the Crew Chief and Driver.  we beat the crank out of that motor & bought Pat Musi's 903 from his wrecked Stratus (Joe & Pat were LONG time friends).  I did firewall back & Joe did Firewall forward & Derrol wrote checks & drank beer. 

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Derroll in the Camaro

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we simply could not get the Camaro light enough to be competitive so Derroll bought this duster from Dennis Radford.  We did pretty well with it.  Won a championship & broke some hearts. 

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Joe got sick & Derrol sold the Duster to Robert Costa of NM (Another one of Joes customers) & AFAIK, Robert still has it.  Although he put an Automatic in the car. 

Derrol got hooked up with Ed Thornton & Shane Tecklenburg & decided that they were gonna build a turbo car out of the 70 (which I had been trying to get Derroll to do the whole time.  LOL).  I helped them for a year or so & felt like a third wheel, so I gave up the sport. 

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what they have done with this car is AMAZING.  with 9 million HP on tap, the car REALLY does not give a sheet about the weight.  in fact, this is a VERY well built car & does everything you tell it to go. 

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Bobalos said:
Ive been a drag racer for just about all of my life.  my second car is the Yellow VeeWee.  simple 1776, with Dual Solex Carbs.  I beat the crap out of that car & learned a few things in the process. 

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Not actually my car............  I helped build this with my boss (His money, my labor).  for a while, it was one of the fastest street cars on the island. 

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my first "post Navy" hot rod.  69 Datsun 2000 with a Furd 302 & a C4.  Cool little car. 

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My 71 Camaro that had a 383 with a 750 carb, TH350 & a small plate system. 

Then an EFI Motor with an Accell Super Ram & a TH700R4. 

I miss this car.  I sold it to a guy "up in LA". 

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My youngest "helping" with Maint. 

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Then I decided I was going to "go fast".  66 Chevelle, 68 Caprice 427 with cast Iron heads & a 250+ plate system.  it was bitchen fun & again I learned a bunch.

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Goofing around.  LOL.

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Then I thought I was going to build a blow through turbo system.  It never turned a tire..........  I build both the hot & cold side on this.  uber cool project.  Wish I finished it.

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then I decided I was going to "help some folks out".

I helped a buddy for a year or so with his 275 drag radial car.  then I moved onto a different buddy with a 91 Rustang where we ran OL10.5.  nasty 426 CI SBF with Twin 88's.  Bitchen car.  

Then a guy I used to race with asked if I would help with his Pro-Mod.  Long story short, this was a 68 camaro that got crashed @ SCSN by the idiot that was running the car.  Derrol the owner got Bickel to put a 70 body on it & we raced it with a clutch & a 737/747/??? Nitrous motor & 4 kits.  Joe Lepone Jr. got involved in the car & he came on as the Crew Chief and Driver.  we beat the crank out of that motor & bought Pat Musi's 903 from his wrecked Stratus (Joe & Pat were LONG time friends).  I did firewall back & Joe did Firewall forward & Derrol wrote checks & drank beer. 

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Derroll in the Camaro

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we simply could not get the Camaro light enough to be competitive so Derroll bought this duster from some dude up in the northern states (his name will come to me @ 3:00 am tomorrow morning.  LOL).  we did pretty well with it.  Won a championship & broke some hearts. 

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Joe got sick & Derrol sold the Duster to Robert Costa of NM (Another one of Joes customers) & AFAIK, Robert still has it.  Although he put an Automatic in the car. 

Derrol got hooked up with Ed Thornton & Shane Tecklenburg & decided that they were gonna build a turbo car out of the 70 (which I had been trying to get Derroll to do the whole time.  LOL).  I helped them for a year or so & felt like a third wheel, so I gave up the sport. 

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what they have done with this car is AMAZING.  with 9 million HP on tap, the car REALLY does not give a sheet about the weight.  in fact, this is a VERY well built car & does everything you tell it to go. 

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