Garceau
Well-Known Member
Good morning - realized I never got around to posting in this section.
I have been around fast mopars my entire life - my father and I built my first car during high school and it was a track only car. Having grown up around racing of various sorts, travelling the country and world racing when I was very little he knew I would be trouble on the street with a fast car. I remember him telling me if I help you build a fast car, it will be track only - I am not going to your funeral for something stupid (he probably wasnt wrong) so we built me a 72 dart 440 while I just got my license, full drag car. It ran well, but as a teenager making 3.65 an hour it wasnt the fanciest. Thank God my old man was a master of making something out of nothing.....
Progressed into a few different cars through the years and campaigned an 86 Daytona with a alky injected big block in IHRA classes throughout the division for several years and then quite honestly - I spent too much money, racked up too much debt trying to keep up with those living a different lifestyle than me racing and I embarassingly enough got a Credit Card too high and had to walk away and take care of responsibilities. My nephew now has the Daytona at 16 and they transplanted a new gen hemi in it and an awesome fuel injection system. He came out of the Jr. Dragster ranks and won all over the country in those - so it was no surprise his first weekend in the Daytona (we called it the dragster slayer when I drove it as it won me a lot of big races) he went 7 rounds for the win in a no-box class. His first time out..... between my brother whom has a full race chassis shop and my old man - they updated this car to perfection.
anyways - fast forward to now - midlife crisis maybe I picked this up. Its a little bittersweet not building it myself, but there is enough work to do on it that I can still feel some ownership.
so here is what I got - its Wisconsin and I cannot wait to drive it.
505 inches, 727 and 8.75 rear -
Immediate plans to update are better headlights, and most likely a better carb system - this may be a little undersized at 750cfm, but I am guessing it has great street manners. Eventually putting a dana in, and updating the rear suspension - maybe caltracs, or at least a better spring system - then quite possibly a converter swap for something a little better matched.
But all of that depends on how streetable it is in current shape. Its not a track car by any means....just a crusier.
I have been around fast mopars my entire life - my father and I built my first car during high school and it was a track only car. Having grown up around racing of various sorts, travelling the country and world racing when I was very little he knew I would be trouble on the street with a fast car. I remember him telling me if I help you build a fast car, it will be track only - I am not going to your funeral for something stupid (he probably wasnt wrong) so we built me a 72 dart 440 while I just got my license, full drag car. It ran well, but as a teenager making 3.65 an hour it wasnt the fanciest. Thank God my old man was a master of making something out of nothing.....
Progressed into a few different cars through the years and campaigned an 86 Daytona with a alky injected big block in IHRA classes throughout the division for several years and then quite honestly - I spent too much money, racked up too much debt trying to keep up with those living a different lifestyle than me racing and I embarassingly enough got a Credit Card too high and had to walk away and take care of responsibilities. My nephew now has the Daytona at 16 and they transplanted a new gen hemi in it and an awesome fuel injection system. He came out of the Jr. Dragster ranks and won all over the country in those - so it was no surprise his first weekend in the Daytona (we called it the dragster slayer when I drove it as it won me a lot of big races) he went 7 rounds for the win in a no-box class. His first time out..... between my brother whom has a full race chassis shop and my old man - they updated this car to perfection.
anyways - fast forward to now - midlife crisis maybe I picked this up. Its a little bittersweet not building it myself, but there is enough work to do on it that I can still feel some ownership.
so here is what I got - its Wisconsin and I cannot wait to drive it.
505 inches, 727 and 8.75 rear -
Immediate plans to update are better headlights, and most likely a better carb system - this may be a little undersized at 750cfm, but I am guessing it has great street manners. Eventually putting a dana in, and updating the rear suspension - maybe caltracs, or at least a better spring system - then quite possibly a converter swap for something a little better matched.
But all of that depends on how streetable it is in current shape. Its not a track car by any means....just a crusier.
