Guest Gerhard Tieseler Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 My '47 Dodge sedan vs. my friends '53 Ford sedan. It's a ridiculous idea, but we are going to have a drag race, and yes it will be on a country road. I know it is wrong to race on the street, but I don't think we will get going fast enough to be speeding, and the road is hardly traveled. We are going to video tape the illegal action, and celebrate afterwards. Winner buys BBQ. It will be a twin carb 230 Mopar versus a stock overdrive 223 Ford. I thought I would share it with everyone. It will be fun. Please don't think we are retards. It's in the name of good ol' fashioned fun! Quote
jamesadams Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 You mean...uhh... its illegal to race on the road... oh yeah, your in California! Whew! Thought i had spent my teen years as an outlaw! Then my teachers would have been right! Quote
Dennis Hemingway Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Just keep the video to yourself. We have busted dumb kids who have but videos of themselfs breaking the law on youtube. Dennis:cool: Quote
claybill Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 hands down .....'you got 'em...by the cajones! bill Quote
55 Fargo Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Hey Dennis, the kids on Youtube were videoing there dragracing in Winnipeg Manitoba,on the main drag, Portage Avenue, which is about 4 to 5 lanes wide in each direction, they put it on Youtube, then got busted by the Winnipeg Police. You can run but can't hide on the web...........Fred Quote
BloodyKnuckles Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 That's funny! A friend and I raced our cars. My 218 and his 250 chevy. It had to have been the loudest and slowest race ever. It was a riot. We raced stoplight to stoplight. Believe it or not we were evenly matched. On the highway I'll blow him away...OD all the way! He is putting in an OD as we speak so we'll have to see who's faster when he's all wrapped up. Good luck. I know you'll beat him! BloodyKnuckles Quote
greg g Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 It has always been my contentions that driving a slow car fast, is much more fun than driving a fast car slow. Imagine that drag racing, without raising the ire of the local constabulary. Speed contest???? Officer, are you being a bit oxymoronic??? After all these cars are inline 6's....surely you must be mistaken.... Quote
Niel Hoback Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 Picture this, it's 1960, we're drag racing down the middle of 5th avenue in Gary, Indiana. Common? Yes, but I had a white 1950 Nash Ambassador Custom, OHV 6 with Hydramatic. The other kid? A black 1951 Nash Statesman, flathead 6, 3 speed with overdrive. Who won? I don't remember, but I do think about how that must have looked. Sorta like two turtles trying to escape a snail. About as fast too. I still chuckle about that because if we had been seen by the local cops, they wouldn't have known we were racing! Quote
greg g Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 Gerhard, You might wanna put some electrical tape over your License Plate. If the tape goes public, sure it wouldn't be hard to track down a 47 Dodge and a 53 Ford, even without plate numbers showing, but with the plate blanked off you will at least have plausible deniability. Put on some Groucho glasses also........... Quote
Guest Gerhard Tieseler Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 Well folks, the recording is locked up in my competitor's office, and it sure is neat to watch! The gas pedal jammed on the Dodge, and it was catching up but too late! 50 MPH was the top speed, the Ford got a little bit of chicken scratch, the flag girl was a guy who dropped his pants and had "GO" painted on his butt cheeks, and it was overall a close match and a silly idea. I think we'll do this again, but at a real racetrack next time! I just hope the video doesn't get out. Quote
Don Coatney Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 Well folks, the recording is locked up in my competitor's office, and it sure is neat to watch! The gas pedal jammed on the Dodge, and it was catching up but too late!50 MPH was the top speed, the Ford got a little bit of chicken scratch, the flag girl was a guy who dropped his pants and had "GO" painted on his butt cheeks, and it was overall a close match and a silly idea. I think we'll do this again, but at a real racetrack next time! I just hope the video doesn't get out. Come on you gotta share the tape with us! :confused: Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 It was kinda tough to drag in my high school days '47 Chevy with vacuum assisted shift. No speed shifting with that deal. There is a straight stretch of Jefferson St down by the cemetary we used to use. Didn't do that very often, and don't recall ever winning. Mine was faded black. At the time, I thought it was sorta ooogly, but they have gotten better looking with age (my age, that is). Of course it was free to me....as grandpa bought it for me. Cost: $115. In 1959. Quote
Don Coatney Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 I once bought a 46-47 vacuum shifted Chevy for fifteen bucks. Must have been around 1966 just before I was drafted. I swapped plates from my other car and drove it to work (about 35 miles one way) one day. No car problems but my dad busted my chops for swapping plates. I once raced that Chevy on a drag strip. It would not shift out of first gear. I just held it to the floor in first gear the entire 1/4 mile. Think I won the slowest time for the day. The engine never blew up. Quote
greg g Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 I had a friend in highschool who had two areas of interest. Drag Racing and Hi Fi (see how old I am) he was one of the first people I ever knew with a reel to reel tape recorder/ player. He also had some sophisticated recording equipment for the day. He would set up the recording equipment at the starting line of the Drag Strip and record the races a he spectated. He then would rerecord the tapes based on classes and engine sounds. Now at the time he was driving a 59 Rambler Classic 4 door with a 6 auto. So he installed a tape player, amplifier in the car and a couple of speakers up under the front wheel wells. Well on friday and sat nights when we went cruising, he would, when some hot car pulled up next to him, turn on the tapes and play amplified dragster engine sounds out of the wheel wells of his Rambler. Most everybody backed down when the light turned green....... Quote
crosleykook Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 "So he installed a tape player, amplifier in the car and a couple of speakers up under the front wheel wells. Well on friday and sat nights when we went cruising, he would, when some hot car pulled up next to him, turn on the tapes and play amplified dragster engine sounds out of the wheel wells of his Rambler. " This may be the most genius thing I have ever heard... Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted April 10, 2007 Report Posted April 10, 2007 Probably would work on a Crosley. Quote
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