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Part 7
Rancho Secco, still very early AM July 5th
#7
Scott H. his 70 GS stage 1
between some of the races I mentioned before
Scott gets a race
He has a guy with a nice Dark Green/Black top (IIRC)
65 442 4 speed car, I never saw the engine
we suspected it is another BBC, but it may have been a pure Olds
typical street cars of the day, bunch of bolt-ons exhaust narrowed rear & wide tires
both were on street tires
They go for $50 (I think)
they both do a dry burnout
get up to the starting line
Jim is flagging,
Jim drops his arms & off they go
keep in mind;
Scott's car/Buick is a beautiful car, he babies it usually, he loves that car
afraid to ruin anything (his dad is a Chrysler Dodge master mech.)
Scott one of my best friends, he is a diehard MoPar guy too,
he just has a Buick at the time...
Scott is a real character, a loud mouth an instigator
he's also now very nervous---
The 442 gets way out on Scott, hits second, then he misses 3rd, bad
Scott starts to gain on him, the guy in the 442 gathers it up
gets 3rd finally, Scotts right next to him & Scott barely loses,
by maybe 1/2 a car
He's all fired up when they come back
he wants to race again
the 442 guy wants nothing to do with him...
Scott goes off, sort of on a rant, everyone is laughing at him...
He goes over to pout...
& now he's 'Getting pissed'...
He wants another race now too, he's eager...
One of the locals with a Buick GN 'brand new car'
says; 'he'll run Scott'...
Buick on Buick crime
Scotts car is really a quick car...
same deal $50 race, dry burnouts
Jim lines them up
gets ready to drop his arms
Scott jumps the gun early
the guy in the GN doesn't even move, it was that early...
Scott comes back all happy 'he thinks he won'
we had to let him down, he lost again...
Sort of a comedy of errors...
Scott's all riled up now...
He paid the guy, asked to run again, now down $100
Jim drops his arms,
they're off Scott is way out on the guy like 4-5 cars
crosses the finish line...
Come back talking all kinds of ****...
We just guided him over to the side & stroked his ego a bit...
It was sort of hilarious...
(he'll race again later)
#8
Lanny (Lenny ?) a friend of Roland's old car convert. Pro-Street
68 Dart 426cid Hemi/tf727 dana-60 big rear tires, nice headers & exhaust
wants to finally run his car, he really never raced
Truck driver, good driver, just not big into street racing
more of a show scene guy
The aforementioned 442 wants to run him, he agrees to $20 (IIRC)
we all got another $20 each on Lanny (?)
The Dart has real potential, so did the 442, was no slouch...
They both do their burnouts, the Dart does an impressive burnout
the 442 does a nice smoky dry burnout too
they get up to the line
Jim drops his arms, off they go,
the Dart is freight-training the guy, like he's (442) got an anchor
out like 3 cars on him, doing very well, hauling ***
(never knew that car was fast, I thought of it as 'more of a poser')
Lanny makes it all the way down, no problems, handles it well,
wins easily...
I'd bet it was a low 12's pass, very respectable run,
especailly for a rookie...
You could imagine how happy he is/was, he's hooked now too...
He wants to race again...
Says he didn't even have it floored...
I don't know about that , the 442 guys paid everyone...
like 8 of us
He goes back & parks...
these 2 sets of events were happening between a couple of the fasters cars races
or running them back
It was an interesting time for sure
I laughed so damn hard a few times, my sides hurt...
to be continued
as I remember it...
Rancho Secco, still very early AM July 5th
#7
Scott H. his 70 GS stage 1
between some of the races I mentioned before
Scott gets a race
He has a guy with a nice Dark Green/Black top (IIRC)
65 442 4 speed car, I never saw the engine
we suspected it is another BBC, but it may have been a pure Olds
typical street cars of the day, bunch of bolt-ons exhaust narrowed rear & wide tires
both were on street tires
They go for $50 (I think)
they both do a dry burnout
get up to the starting line
Jim is flagging,
Jim drops his arms & off they go
keep in mind;
Scott's car/Buick is a beautiful car, he babies it usually, he loves that car
afraid to ruin anything (his dad is a Chrysler Dodge master mech.)
Scott one of my best friends, he is a diehard MoPar guy too,
he just has a Buick at the time...
Scott is a real character, a loud mouth an instigator
he's also now very nervous---
The 442 gets way out on Scott, hits second, then he misses 3rd, bad
Scott starts to gain on him, the guy in the 442 gathers it up
gets 3rd finally, Scotts right next to him & Scott barely loses,
by maybe 1/2 a car
He's all fired up when they come back
he wants to race again
the 442 guy wants nothing to do with him...
Scott goes off, sort of on a rant, everyone is laughing at him...
He goes over to pout...
& now he's 'Getting pissed'...
He wants another race now too, he's eager...
One of the locals with a Buick GN 'brand new car'
says; 'he'll run Scott'...
Buick on Buick crime
Scotts car is really a quick car...
same deal $50 race, dry burnouts
Jim lines them up
gets ready to drop his arms
Scott jumps the gun early
the guy in the GN doesn't even move, it was that early...
Scott comes back all happy 'he thinks he won'
we had to let him down, he lost again...
Sort of a comedy of errors...
Scott's all riled up now...
He paid the guy, asked to run again, now down $100
Jim drops his arms,
they're off Scott is way out on the guy like 4-5 cars
crosses the finish line...
Come back talking all kinds of ****...
We just guided him over to the side & stroked his ego a bit...
It was sort of hilarious...
(he'll race again later)
#8
Lanny (Lenny ?) a friend of Roland's old car convert. Pro-Street
68 Dart 426cid Hemi/tf727 dana-60 big rear tires, nice headers & exhaust
wants to finally run his car, he really never raced
Truck driver, good driver, just not big into street racing
more of a show scene guy
The aforementioned 442 wants to run him, he agrees to $20 (IIRC)
we all got another $20 each on Lanny (?)
The Dart has real potential, so did the 442, was no slouch...
They both do their burnouts, the Dart does an impressive burnout
the 442 does a nice smoky dry burnout too
they get up to the line
Jim drops his arms, off they go,
the Dart is freight-training the guy, like he's (442) got an anchor
out like 3 cars on him, doing very well, hauling ***
(never knew that car was fast, I thought of it as 'more of a poser')
Lanny makes it all the way down, no problems, handles it well,
wins easily...
I'd bet it was a low 12's pass, very respectable run,
especailly for a rookie...
You could imagine how happy he is/was, he's hooked now too...
He wants to race again...
Says he didn't even have it floored...
I don't know about that , the 442 guys paid everyone...
like 8 of us
He goes back & parks...
these 2 sets of events were happening between a couple of the fasters cars races
or running them back
It was an interesting time for sure
I laughed so damn hard a few times, my sides hurt...
to be continued
as I remember it...
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