Many here no doubt, probably seen these photos
& this was a
street driven car, an actual Pro-Gas racecar,
shitty photos are the build in process,
never mind the date stamps that's when they were
converted to digital from Polaroids
With street tires it was a Pro-
Street car,
all steel body, 2" x 3" main frame, 1-5/8 roll-cage
(it was a 55 Chevy Chris Alston Chassis Works frame kit)
no fiberglass/no carbon fiber, weighed about 2900#'s with me in it,
all "thinner" glass windows, just straps to pull the side windows up
no heat or defrost or wipers...
Aluminum interior panels, divider & tubs, inner fenders & rad. support
the floor, firewall & tunnel was 0.060" steel, for some protection...
I actually ran in a Super Chevy Sunday Fastest Street Cars event
you had to do a 50 mile loop, had to have real tire treads, DOT approved
way before any of these "DOT Drag Radials" were so popular
my biggest issue was it ran on Methanol, it had a 16 gallon cell
could go about 90-100 miles max...
but you can't find that stuff at a gas station
& you burn 170% more fuel on methanol/alcohol
I could have changed nozzles, bypasses & pills
& ran pump gas, "If I had to"
But it actually stayed very cool thou on the methanol/alcohol
it was pretty docile really, especially for a roller cam & Mech. FI,
if not for the 4.88:1 gears...
With the "M/T S/ST sticky street treaded tires" it ran in the high 8's
black tracking the whole way
on the slicks it'd run 7.98 @ 169 best pass (too much gear),
Pro-gas was 8.50
before I went to a
Blown Methanol Injected on a 540 Milodon Mastodon Hemi 7.20's @ 188 best
I had a 67 Camaro with a similar N/A set up but 468cid,
same style/type tires 8.98 @ 156
I won the worlds fastest street car event in Firebird/Phoenix late 80's
you can't see it well, shitty photos
it has M/T S/ST DOT fully treaded 'sticky' street tires 15" x 31.5" x 18"
this car ran 8.50's back in the 80's on 15" x 33" x 15" slicks
it was street driven a few times, with the N/A Fuel Injected 499cid combo
wing, parachute & all
it actually wasn't that bad to drive, it was loud as ****
even had adapted some mufflers, the 5500 stall was a tad much
& it rattled because of all the tin work etc.
I registered it org. as a joke to my racing buddies
to talk **** they got beat by a reg. lic. street car
made for a few fun times out on Ignacio Valley rd.
in Concord Ca. Fri., Sat. & Sun. Street Races
or the adjacent city Walnut Creek cruise nights
Or Encino Grande Shopping center parking lot after the cruises
never could get anyone to line up next it, out there
Big Daddy Ed Roth did a shirt of it
the Camaro at Sac. Raceway, it was driven on the street a whole bunch more
than the 49 Ford, for like 10 years