Your first race
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Your first race
Tell me about the first time you raced, your screw ups, missed gears, or just plain stallin it.</P>
My first, and only race to date, was back last year in early december, when the air is thick with O2 and hp is good. I pulled up to a formula 1994 firebird, and revved a lil bit. He reved after he put in into neutral, and on the light we took off. He got out on me by about a car length at the start, but I caught up in 3rd and we ended with me about half to a whole car length ahead. I was kind of surprised considering formulas are pretty quick arent they?</P>
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Your first race
First race? Uh way back in 1985 I was driving my 67 Cougar. 289 2v auto 3.00 gears. I raced one of the guys in town with a simply beautiful 66 Stang with a 289 4V 4 spd and 4.11's. It was white with black stripes black interior, mine was red with a black top and interior. Can you figure out who won that one? I didnt win a race untill I bought my 72 GTO. I built a nice 400 for it and went out GT mustang smashing. lol.</P>
Just this past saturday night, well my TH400 is messin up on me, so I am gonna rebuild my other one. Heres the lowdown. I made my first run, no first gear, it started in 2nd. I moved the shifter into neutral after it hit third and wound to 6000, brought it back and it only ran an 8.1 @ 94 mph. Really sucked. Usually its well in the 7's. Next two runs I only had first gear, so I did a 10.4 at like 20 mph. All 60fts were 1.8 or 1.9. Even startin in 2nd. I really need to fix that thing, this is gettin old.</P>
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Your first race
My first race was actually a highway race with like 5 other cars. I was driving my '01 accord v6 from Baltimore down to DC, and my friend had fallen asleep in my front passenger seat. I was driving slowly, until I saw those 5 cars coming up FAST from behind me... just headlights approaching fast. I decided to put the pedal down, and see what my 200hp V6 could do. (my previous car was a '87 plymouth horizon auto) To my surprise, I caught and passed every single one of them going 110mph. It was dark, so I couldn't tell what all the other cars were, but I noticed a civic, and a lexus sc300. The funny thing is my friend slept through the entire race, and wouldn't believe me about it later.
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Your first race
I had an 86GT with a ton of mods, got spanked by a friends 97 Camaro with nothin but exhaust on. Heh, the Camaro was even an automatic... At that point I realized life wasn't fair, but oh well, I would never (In my right mind) own a Camaro, some things you gotta deal with
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Your first race
Raced my 67 coupe aginst a chevelle I had a 289 wiyh close to 300hp I thought it was hot $hit . I took the chevy off the line got almost all the way across the intersection and damm it blew my doors off. I learned that day a 289 is no match for a 454 with dual 4bbl
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Mine was a 64ss nova with a 427/400 turbo 4:56 gears worked 2 years on building it at school... thought I was the **** so I jumped on one of the big boys...guy pulled me about 4 cars out the whole and he never looked back I lost it by about 5-6 cars....guy had one of those family cars the dodge R/T with the lil ole 426 hemi.hell I was only 16*L*took alot of **** that day but the guys accepted me as one of there own..