With the Winter's warm-up running today and the Winternationals next week end, I thought I might share an amusing story.
We had the blown 34 Ford coupe (mate owned it, I drove it) entered (about 1998 or 99) and I had the grand idea, of entering our 63 Pontiac in Super Street and I'd drive both cars over the week-end.
The 34 ran mid 7's all day and was bullet proof.
So far, so good.
Now, the ol Pontiac had a fairly stout little 350 Chevy in it with a turbo 350 box, 3500 convertor and a simple 3.5 geared Pontiac diff.
So far, so good.
Now, to qualify, I had to run a 12:99 or better and the ol Pontiac was a bit of a heavy weight old thing, but could boogie when required.
I had a gut feeling, a really high 12 was in the ol girl.
So, to make sure the heavy arse thing could run an easy 12, I slapped a 100HP shot of giggles on the 350 to liven it up.
Tried it on the street and it would blaze the tyres off it.
Looked cool though, as it was flat purple in colour, flames over the front, whitewall tyres and on its guts lowrider style.
The Winters Warm Up would be the test, we were entered for the main event, but I really wanted to run a 12 before taking it to such a big race meet.
I borrowed a set of slicks that would fit, even if I left the spats on. (Cooooooool)
So, lets put the ol girl down the track.
1. Rip off a billowing skid.
2. Place car in pre-stage.
3. Bring up revs against the convertor.
4. Arm the giggle gas.
5. Full stage.
6. Last amber on the tree, bury the right foot, get off the brake and away we go.
7. Listen to crown wheel as it tried to cut its way out of the diff housing.
8. Cringe as the tacho needle flew around and tried to bash up the speedo.
The poor ol girl moved all of about 3 inches from the start line.
We then spent hours, and i mean, hours trying get about 5.6 metres of busted up Pontiac onto a tilt tray.
Because of how low it was, we ended up using a set of ramps a racer used to put a short wheel based race car into a pantec truck.
Getting it off at home was a whole different story.....
