Is anyone else jonesing for a holeshot?

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Dana

Dana

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Sitting here watching it snow, and just dieing for a blast of gforce. I wanna be slammed in the seat, hear the rpm's coming up, feeling it up my spine, becoming part of the machine. As my consciousness fights its way through the euphoria, the only thing in my vision is the hood scoop and blue skies. I realize for the umpteenth consecutive time that the shift light will never do on THIS run. Were doin this baby by ear! Grab 2 begin to see the grand stands, then the scoreboard, then touchdown, give the wheel a little wiggle hen the shocks rebound, no time to cheer yet. Grab 3, look over your shoulder, wind her up to redline, glance at the oil pressure gauge, trip the beams. Its over. Interesting how that small fraction of a minute can consume a fella in these dormant winter months. Just wandering if anyone else is going through this same detox?
 
every once in awhile I get the itch to just stab the throttle. [ame]https://youtu.be/QgrYuOYNuLU[/ame]
 
Dana said:
anyone else is going through this same detox?
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LOL. I can't afford snowmobiles..........

This is a few years ago, but "last week" looked almost the same

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Just had the big tree removed, there is still plenty of snow

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Coming week

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Race next weekend...Saturday TnT....Sunday Bracket race suppose to be in low 60s with snow on the mountains about 50 miles away..
 
I get mine out with snow on the ground every once in a while. Granted it's slow and street legal but I still get to warm up the slicks and get some hits in!
 
In the meantime, another story from the old days. This happened just about this time of year, in the early of 1968. Later that year, I would be off to the Navy.

We had a lot of snow on the ground, but had some nice days, and the streets "dried up." One Sunday was sunny, and actually 'warm' if you stood in the sun. Don Blackmore had a 48ish Ford pu with a sb, I think it was a 283. I think he had the 2 fours on it then. This was an old 'Vette 2x4 manifold with adapters ground out to accept larger AFB carbs. The pu had I think 411's and a misery .........I mean Mystery shifter (Hurst) 3 speed. Dixco or look-alike tach.

So Don and "Kincaid" got together. "Kincaid" had a new Camaro 350. Don had homemade headers, not even collectors, just dumped each tube under the truck, with a hose clamp around the tubes.

The truck was easy to work on, and a "few minutes" on the local "Signal" station hoist dropped the street exhaust and the headers were hung.

Off we all went out the "Dover highway" to the "gravel pit." Don and I arrived at the "pit" to the sound of an electric pump gasping for fuel. Had to send "Kincaid" back to town for a few gallons of gas, LOL.

The "misery" shifter had an extension welded on, and the shifter must'a had a throw clear to the firewall. Don wound that thing up until the 5? 6? K tach just banged the needle down in the corner, and then KEPT RIGHT ON winding it up until "something" floated. I don't know whether it was valves or points. Then shifted to 2nd. It was all over, baby. The Camaro didn't have a chance, 2 out of 3. I don't remember what "gears" were in the Camaro, probably 3.38.

US-2, near Dover, between Spokamentro and Sandpoint. Narrow little thing. We didn't go all that fast, back then

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:) Already won a race this year! :) NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series in Phoenix last weekend!
 
Thanks pal. Tell me about your hot rod , and I'll keep an eye out for you at the track. Do you go to quaker city?
 
I just have a Duster street car currently, took a break from racing to concentrate on my son's travel sports. I sold my truck and trailer, 4 wheeler, race car, then he blew his knee out.
So I built me a big block lime green Duster to cruise around in. I use to race a purple 69 Dart that ran in the 9's on a 10.5 tire through the mufflers on pump gas. I miss that Dart but cruising the Duster is alot of fun. I'll look for you if I go to Quaker this year.
 
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