I don't know why you brought this up BJ, but i've had 4 incidence that i should have been SKERT (redneck for scared) and and 3 of those were in the same race car and that was my first fast car (at that time) 1956 t'bird blown s/blk chevy.
The first time was at Oswego drag strip in 1966. I was 27yrs. old at that time.
I had just saw a 1953 stupidbaker, break a driveshaft in the front yoke and it picked the car up and swung him left and into 4 rollovers. My car always ran between 136/148mph. I had already ran
[email protected]. We had a rain break and the track dry'ed up. there was a dip at about 900ft.i hit the dip and the car went totally right, i mean almost 90*, i saw everything i had ever done wrong in my life and just knew i would not live to be 30 yrs. old, i lifted and the car came back, i even mentioned that to my wife who never attended the races. The next was in 1967 at MeadowGrove a new track in Il., nite race i had never been down the track, in fact it was the first race the track had run. It was a road race course and they added a dragstrip. Very poor lighting at the end. My very first pass i ran 138 and pulled the shoot,and looked up there was a light and a turnoff to the left, maybe 400/500 ft. from the traps, 2 wheel drum brakes at the rear, i tried it, 2 donuts later i ran over the parashoot and was facing the starting line, i just touched the guard rail with the right front splast pan little crack no damage. i wasn't skert, it happened too fast. Next time in BJ country, at Starlite Dragway in 1968, i went 138, pulled the shoot, and my helper had forgot to flip the hood pin rings over and the hood came up, and wrapped over the roof and knocked me silly. All down hill, swamp on the left and i can only look out the blower hole in the hood and the plexiglass door window that didn't roll down, again i wasn't skert. The last time was in Phx. at Phx Raceway park, next to the last run of the nite. There was 3 cars left, me a an altered and Larry Nance, Nance drew the by. The altered red lit and i was behing him by about 50' in the left lane in my nova. The left heim joint broke when i lifted at the end and the rearend pushed back the left rear tire went under the trunk and i went 600ft. sideways and backward and at one point saw the starting line straight ahead of me. I broke the drive shaft, trans. tailhousing and flat spotted (junked) all 4 tires, i wasn't skert.
I have already purjured, made myself into a hyprocrete in the poll for the s/blk vs b/blk by saying i liked to run cars that were overpowered for the track and wouldn't run straight. When most know that i'm in the process of building my last ride of my life, the 1948 Anglia with somewhere between 1200 and 1600HP. I doubt if it will run a 100ft. straight even though i've streched the WB to 92". BUT you know WHAT? at 68yrs. old i need to be SKERT again just one more time before i push daisys. :lol: :lol:
zip.