The worst car you dealt with,in high school.....
Mine was a '57 Ford Fairlane. What a piece of crap! .
Friend of mine lost some "big" money to a 57 Ferd
Don was a true hotrodder. Back then he had a 48 Ford pickup with a Chev 283, 3 speed, Hurst "misery shifter" and 411's. He'd scared up an old 'Vette dual quad built for WCFBs and adapted larger AFBs to it with much grinding "For what it was" it was pretty fast.
Now Don could 'ha beat the "57 Ferd crowd" any day of the week. And "they" hassled him and picked at him until he agreed to a race.
Put some money on it, and REALLY tuned up the 283
Dropped the rear U joint right on the pavement, right THERE.
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Neil Kincaid had bought a brand new 350 Camaro. I don't remember if it was a 67 or 68 Neil and Don decided to race "just for fun." This was just about this very time of year, we had had a "early melt" and the highways were bare. So, Jan-Feb of 67 or 68. Don had built headers, but had no collectors. They were just open tubes, hose clamped at the bottom.
We went chuggin out of the service station, around the hospitol, tryin' to get out of town and avoid the one Sunday afternoon cop. Bloopety Blap. Didn't work. "Officer Bourassa" came around the corner just as we did. Don killed the power and coasted over. Art was stupid, or didn't care. On his way to coffee. Just thought it quit, I guess.
So we finally made it out past Dover. Don's 48 ran out of gas!!!!! Kincaid had to run back into town and buy Don enough gas to race with!!!!
So Don has a cheap DIxco? tack about 6K. Winds that ***** up and dumps the clutch. Winds it up until the tach needle is bouncing down in the bottom of the tach, then just winds it some more!!!! It finally floated either the valves or points, I don't know which, so he shifted into 2nd.
The mystery shifter was not long enough!!! for a pickup, so Don had welded about 6 more inches to the lever. That thing had a throw that was unbelieveably long.
'Tell ya. He beat that Camaro!!!!