Street/Strip

[shybx1969]

My mentor/friend who has been dragging for 40yrs/ his 9 sec 69 vette at the strip only. He says he hates movies like fast/furious saying all it does is promote young kids to race on the street instead of strip risking thier lives....He doesnt have a hotrod for street never wanted one..Too make a long story short how many of you guys have or do both???? Drag/hotrod all in one or both??? I prefer doing both myself!!! I guess seeing that tragic accident w/the opel got me too thinking to maybe driving a little more carefully even when im on a long straightaway!!!!

[mopar1968]

I have both myself, Just got thru building another Dart prostreet, My wife has her Challenger, After a ton of tickets when i was younger i learned to slow down some :!: :!: :lol: :lol:


''JUST MY TWO CENT'S WORTH''

[DirkaDirka]

I have a 55 Series 1 Chevy truck that I will be building as a hot rod. I will also be building myself a street/strip car.

[FullTimeRacing]

I'm a nut on the street :twisted: ,so I drive a slow diesel. 8)

[TheYellaBrick]

I'm also a nut on the street, so I sold my '61 Merc Meteor with 460/C6 to concentrate on my REAL racecars,.....now I'm too broke to race THEM !
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[Scooterz]

Well, I have a 69 Camaro that has plates/tags... but a cage & slicks. The two are not a very good mix; I was pulled over for the slicks, no wipers, or drivers mirror. He let me go w/a warning. Since then, I put on a factory drivers mirror, & a drivers side wiper (w/o the motor assbly). I kept the slicks on & will take my chances... I drive that car occasionally on the street... but mostly like a grandma. All I can say is that it is hard having both in one car (street/strip). It is like leaving your girlfriend home & taking another girl to the Prom. I drive our Tahoe harder than my Hot Rod. I guess I am getting old.

[fbodyjunkie]

I have a 70 Camaro prostreet with wheelie bars and antique tags on it. I wanted something that would run on pump gas and be just plain nasty to drive around. So I built a small BBC (461) with a F2 procharger for power. It has ET streets and 4" Borla shootout mufflers that dump behind the doors. Its fun to drive around but the cops can hear me for blocks, kind of hard to hide. Told me it's too loud, so I guess besides shows, it's now a strip car. So I guess I got a street/now strip car :roll:

[blowninjected540]

I have the prostreet chevelle thats in the picture. And just sold my chevy ll topsportsmen car, my 67 camaro and front engine dragster to build a pro-mod 70 chevelle, It is still at the chassie shop, hopfully to be finished spring 2010.

There have been some bad accidents around hear street racing, Running around on the street with my Red chevelle all the kids want to race.( Never DO) :oops: They have no idea pulling up to some True American Muscel with a rice burnner. Come On :lol:

[DirkaDirka]

I have a 70 Camaro prostreet with wheelie bars and antique tags on it. I wanted something that would run on pump gas and be just plain nasty to drive around. So I built a small BBC (461) with a F2 procharger for power. It has ET streets and 4" Borla shootout mufflers that dump behind the doors. Its fun to drive around but the cops can hear me for blocks, kind of hard to hide. Told me it's too loud, so I guess besides shows, it's now a strip car. So I guess I got a street/now strip car :roll:

The cops are just jealous cuz you got one and they dont.

[DirkaDirka]

Well, I have a 69 Camaro that has plates/tags... but a cage & slicks. The two are not a very good mix; I was pulled over for the slicks, no wipers, or drivers mirror. He let me go w/a warning. Since then, I put on a factory drivers mirror, & a drivers side wiper (w/o the motor assbly). I kept the slicks on & will take my chances... I drive that car occasionally on the street... but mostly like a grandma. All I can say is that it is hard having both in one car (street/strip). It is like leaving your girlfriend home & taking another girl to the Prom. I drive our Tahoe harder than my Hot Rod. I guess I am getting old.

If you ever get tired of it I can take it off yer hands for ya. :D :twisted:

[Scooterz]

Running around on the street with my Red chevelle all the kids want to race.( Never DO) :oops: They have no idea pulling up to some True American Muscel with a rice burnner. Come On :lol:

Man that is SOOO true... little BS rice-cake cars that want to race. It is a TRIP driving my 69 Camaro on the street sometimes... it is like they have no idea what a true hot rod is capable of. Reminds me of a chiwawa picking a fight w/ a pit bull or something... I never risk completely wiping them off the road anymore... not worth it... not even worth the rubber loss on my slicks. That Opel accident/article was sobering & really made me think how easy it can happen... life would never be the same again.

[DirkaDirka]

Running around on the street with my Red chevelle all the kids want to race.( Never DO) :oops: They have no idea pulling up to some True American Muscel with a rice burnner. Come On :lol:

Man that is SOOO true... little BS rice-cake cars that want to race. It is a TRIP driving my 69 Camaro on the street sometimes... it is like they have no idea what a true hot rod is capable of. Reminds me of a chiwawa picking a fight w/ a pit bull or something... I never risk completely wiping them off the road anymore... not worth it... not even worth the rubber loss on my slicks. That Opel accident/article was sobering & really made me think how easy it can happen... life would never be the same again.

Oh it doesnt even have to be American muscle they do that too. They do that to me all the time also. Just because I have a "fast" looking car.

[ashbros]

Always both, Heck sometime I have been known to drive my door car down to the local hamburger joint for chits and grins

[CamBirdRacing]

My ex-wife wouldn't let me build my 68 Firebird for hte street, only to race. At least I still have my drivers liscense.

[outlaw256]

the fast and stupid movies arent drag racing.i too hate them movies.some dumb kid watches them then goes out and gets in his rice burner and presto hes van desil. i still drag race on the street. on a country road with no driveways no houses nothing. both ends blocked.and nobody beside the road watching.i still do burnouts at stop lites and signs.i still lope my way around the parking lots.ive been pulled over by the law and just have them look at the car.ive been warned a bunch of times. but never caught doin anything wrong.(not since 98 anyway). but just the way i look gets me pulled over lol. i do not think racin on the street is very smart, but i can not help myself sometimes. its like ive gone back in time. the only way i can describe it is to say american graffitey.i quit going to the track when it cost more to go than my shop lite bill.but some day it will cost me everything of that im sure.

[Scooterz]

the fast and stupid movies arent drag racing.i too hate them movies.some dumb kid watches them then goes out and gets in his rice burner and presto hes van desil. i still drag race on the street. on a country road with no driveways no houses nothing. both ends blocked.and nobody beside the road watching.i still do burnouts at stop lites and signs.i still lope my way around the parking lots.ive been pulled over by the law and just have them look at the car.ive been warned a bunch of times. but never caught doin anything wrong.(not since 98 anyway). but just the way i look gets me pulled over lol. i do not think racin on the street is very smart, but i can not help myself sometimes. its like ive gone back in time. the only way i can describe it is to say american graffitey.i quit going to the track when it cost more to go than my shop lite bill.but some day it will cost me everything of that im sure.

The police do not like the loud cars w/ slicks & a switch on back.... I think that switch is what got the cop looking at my car @ a light... he asked me why it was there too. He told me: (Oregon DMV law) "You are not required to have a windshield, but you must a minimum of a drivers windshield wiper" The cop did laugh about that. I do understand that temptation of a good race on the street Ken... but not by a 99' Acura Integra w/a FART Box on the back!! LOL!! Gimmie somethin good ya know???

[shybx1969]

Wish you guys could be at the adirondack nats this weekend/lotsa hotrods/customs/sleds/you name it its here till sun... :D

[BEAST477]

Just a strip car now. Had both but sold my '66 Nova to finance my 540 BBC and acouple other things. You can view both in my profile gallery pics. I sure miss the '66 at times though. It turned alot of heads.

[russ67chevelle]

i dont go out often, but i live on the east side of town and take it out of town to test the tires, ive gone 8.66 running way fat on a 275 shot

what is street legal? in my opinion running 93 octane gas, dot tires and decent exhaust oh also 3 inch cowl max.

[OneBadGMC]

Drove my blown alky ride up to the local car cruises 10 miles away many times. Took 20+ gallons of alky to get it there and back home.

Probably woulda took less, but ya gotta set it up fat for the surge if you're gonna drive it.

Used to love tail gaters. A/C units don't filter out alky fumes!!!

Nothing like being able to light up the meats at 55 MPH by rolling into the throttle.

Somewhere out there, I know there's video of me pulling the wheels in front of McDonalds...

[kwkracing]

Boy i wish we could find that video!!!!

[shybx1969]

onebadgmc that is one mean lookin truck/i think my wife would be scared to ride w/me if i had it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ide have to step on it..........a little!!!! :D

[blowninjected540]

Drove my blown alky ride up to the local car cruises 10 miles away many times. Took 20+ gallons of alky to get it there and back home.

Probably woulda took less, but ya gotta set it up fat for the surge if you're gonna drive it.

Used to love tail gaters. A/C units don't filter out alky fumes!!!

Nothing like being able to light up the meats at 55 MPH by rolling into the throttle.

Somewhere out there, I know there's video of me pulling the wheels in fro




nt of McDonalds...




Hey!!! Mator Love to see that Video :D Be carfull with all that Horsepower on the Street

[OneBadGMC]

Well, the issue with the video...

The guy who had it is now dead. He killed himself about 6 yrs or so ago. Real shame, I liked him and he was a riot. Cops said it was a drug induced suicide. He apparently had a cocaine addiction that he hid very well.

At any rate, anything he might have owned went to his brother... His brother doesn't like me much, so I could only imagine that video is either being held hostage, or has been pitched in the trash.

We had a blast with it in 1997 at the DuQuoin Street Machine Nats. After the 'show' inside the fairgrounds, we went down to Carbondale for some cruising. Had a cop stop me and told me to stop hitting the gas pedal. When he opened my door, he saw it was still surging with my foot on the brakes. Said "Oh man, sorry, I thought you were doing that intentionally." Told him "Nope, it's the nature of the beast!".

Those were some good times.