Ha! It must have been parked when the storm came last weekend, too heavy to move through the ice...love the clever saying the bar put up on their signboard in the background!
These things made good hot rods too! Stuffed one with a 392 hemi backed with a 727 Torqueflight tranny. It made over 750 HP on pump gas. I built the engine using the Project 200 article that ran in Rod & Custom magazine during the Summer of '71. I was lucky to find a lot of the hop-up parts in our local wrecking yard. Screwed it all together and promptly got into trouble. My BIL. lit 'em up right in front of the courthouse. Need- less to say, the cop who stopped us had a revolving ticket book. The judge threw out all the charges provided I sold the car to someone who would use it at the drag strip. A friend of Dad's bought it and raced it for many years. Last I knew, the car was still around. Man, was that ever a gas!
Well Tony, I got to see mine run high 12's at the dragstrip in Assumption, Illinois not long after I sold it to a friend of my dad's. He took it through the traps in 12.98 sec- onds at 124 MPH. Not bad for a car that was built in a backyard! He would race the car through 1991. I was told by my BIL that it still exists today. Sure would like to see it again. I have fond memories of that car every time I see one of these. It sure was a wonderful summer!
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Ha! It must have been parked when the storm came last weekend, too heavy to move through the ice...love the clever saying the bar put up on their signboard in the background!
beautiful. and ben's new hood is so photogenic.
that was an exciting three days, and then just like that, it's like it never happened. i even rode my bike tonight without a sweatshirt.
That juke box sign makes the side profile shot even better, lol.
A two door, and let alone a Lancer!
These things made good hot rods too! Stuffed one with a 392 hemi backed with a 727
Torqueflight tranny. It made over 750 HP on pump gas. I built the engine using the
Project 200 article that ran in Rod & Custom magazine during the Summer of '71. I was
lucky to find a lot of the hop-up parts in our local wrecking yard. Screwed it all together
and promptly got into trouble. My BIL. lit 'em up right in front of the courthouse. Need-
less to say, the cop who stopped us had a revolving ticket book. The judge threw out
all the charges provided I sold the car to someone who would use it at the drag strip.
A friend of Dad's bought it and raced it for many years. Last I knew, the car was still
around. Man, was that ever a gas!
what i wouldn't give to see one of these drag-racing.
Well Tony, I got to see mine run high 12's at the dragstrip in Assumption, Illinois not
long after I sold it to a friend of my dad's. He took it through the traps in 12.98 sec-
onds at 124 MPH. Not bad for a car that was built in a backyard! He would race the
car through 1991. I was told by my BIL that it still exists today. Sure would like to see
it again. I have fond memories of that car every time I see one of these. It sure was
a wonderful summer!
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