Later today we’ll be able to go down New England Dragway for the first time in 2020. Smudge The Cat, for one, is very happy, as am I.
Update: I coaxed the '68 with its chicken-coop short block in to the 14s. Smudge the Cat couldn’t get it done (a 15.004) so I took over.
A great day being back in the real world after house arrest!
I’d love to take a shot at the drag strip one day.
Vegas is 1 1/2 hours away.
Looks like the car in my profile picture. Mine was an “A” code 289-4V / 4 speed. Stock except for a Holley 6oo carburetor. I don’t seem to have my best time slip for that day in May 1979 which was around 15.20. Beige exterior / saddle interior XR-7.
Wow! Tires are better now, and in that quiet Cougar I could hear my tires on all the traction compound yesterday. You had a better accomplishment in 1979, I argue (plus fewer inches)
Nice job! Love the Smudge the cat pic lol!
Back then I could not afford new tires so I often went to the junk yard and bought used tires from a wrecked car. I would then take the tires to the re-groover at Denton and Mockingbird in Dallas. They would use a hot iron and a tire lathe (illegal now) to deepen the grooves on the tires so they would pass state inspection. Needless to say I had lots of flats and blowouts. My tires of choice were Firestone Deluxe Champion bias ply F78-14 for the rear and E78-14 for the fronts and spare.
A hell of a story. In NY state those machines weren’t around when I came up (NY has a history of outlawing everything early). E or F78-14 was a healthy tire in 1969-70, a huge step up from weenie 7.35-14s. Used them on my '67 Comet Capri pillarless hardtop.