Mike Gaines!
Awesome dude!
I'm in AWE!
You truly Drag Raced, and furthermore..."In the ERA"
It was all groundbreaking then!
PS: Was this car a Hemi powered car?
Answers:
I lived in central Illinois and raced primarily in central and southern Illinois, St Lous area and Indianapolis Area.
I sold the car in 1969 (when I moved to California) to a guy in Burlington Vermont, never seen or heard about again.
I raced from 1963 (with my brand new 63 Plymouth Max Wedge aluminum nosed car) thru 1968. Built the Funny car in 1966.
My Funny car was, I believe, the
GRANDFATHER of ALL WEDGE EFFORTS. The motor in the Funny Car was out of my Max Wedge.
It was a Stage III Max Wedge. I installed a Crane Roller Cam, Vertex Magneto and the Hilborn Fuel Injection running 80% Nitro and 20% Alcohol. Torquefilte Trans with 8 3/4 rear end with 4.88 gears. Car weighed 2400lbs.
I owned the Max Wedge Motor and could not afford to buy a new HEMI motor for the car....so I made the most out of my Wedge Motor. I think I was probably the ONLY guy in the country running a WEDGE powered Mopar Funny Car....but its what I had. I could NEVER outrun a similiar build Hemi (with him running Hilborns on Nitro also)...but I did regulary beat the Pontiac and Chevy Match Race Funny Cars.
I was NOT drag racing from 1968 until the Fall of 2014 when I bought my current 1966 Dodge Coronet Pro Street Car.
I raced it pretty much like I bought it during the last few months of 2014 running a best of 11.85 @ 112MPH.
I built the 505" stroker motor in Oct of 2015 and just got to the track once during the late fall of 2015. All ready for a full schedule of racing for 2016 starting the with MARCH MEET at Famoso (Bakersfield, Ca) and the Mopar Nationals (Mopars at the Strip, Las Vegas,NV) the end of March.
I now have a genuine 10.70 car and I am going to relive drag racing all over again.