12:05 Garage- ’70 Duster build

Moparty 2022 auto cross recap.
The autocross course was pretty much the same layout as last year but I think some of the cone spacing may have been different. It took a few runs to determine how much I could push the car. I ended the morning session with a 41.4x as my fastest time. That was good enough for 5th overall in autocross. I didn't improve on the afternoon session and fell to 10th overall after more people showed up and others improved. I was really hoping to get into the 40s the following day. After the morning session the second day, no one below me improved nor did I. I remained in 10th overall out of 50 cars. Late in the afternoon session I finally got a 40.8 on 3rd to last run. I was super pumped! The next run I slowed down, then the last run I backed up my best time with another 40.8. This put me in 9th overall out of 50 cars in autocross! I'll take that! I was unsure of how many of those cars in front of me were in the vintage class until the results were posted online. Turns out I was 4th in the vintage class on autocross! Two of the guys in front of me were 1st and 2nd place grand champion finishers for the last 3 years. I would need to knock off .6 seconds to beat the second place guy, but 4 seconds to catch first! That likely won't happen. (3rd place was a dodge omni and I was only .2 seconds behind him)
I'd like to point out there were 2 very high dollar E-bodies out there. One has the full speed tech suspension which I'm sure is north of $20K and the other had a full Shwartz performance chassis. I was over 2 seconds faster than both of them. I understand a lot of it has to do with the driver, but it makes me feel good that my garage built pile of bolts performed so well.
I'll cover more and add some pictures soon.