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As much as we enjoyed admiring this well restored deuce coupe complete with a tear drop trailer, we enjoyed the crazy stories that the owner shared about it even more. The owner of this 1932 Ford first bought it 1958, then sold it a few years later, and after failing out of college found it in a used car lot and bought it back. If that wasn’t a cool enough story, it also survived two divorces where he used a classic T-bird and a “handful of drugs” to appease and distract his ex-wives from taking the Ford during the divorce settlements. Given a few more minutes of converstation, I’m sure this guy could’ve told us some cool stories about the era of free love, Jimi Hendrix, and his personal involvement in the anti-war protests.
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Plumber’s crack… Not exaclty the type of cleavage we’re use to seeing at Hot Import Nights!
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| Good Year Front Runner tires, also known as “skinnies,” are pretty standard affair on land speed racecars. |
The SCTA has some pretty unconventional safety rules. In particular, 1″ lug nuts and five, 1/2″ wheel studs are required on all cars that compete in classes with records over 200 MPH. A participant told us that the five 1/2″ lugs were mandated after a car got sideways and the lugs snapped allowing the wheels to fly off. We remain somewhat skeptical.
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| Land speed racing has a class for just about everything. This particular Chevy S10 holds the production mini pick up, D class record at 152 MPH. | This Chevy S10 was still powered by the factory 4.3 L engine, but flaunted an interesting set of headers. | After being inspected and verified for displacement, this engine was sealed by the SCTA. |
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On 1119/2020 I ran my 1999 Ford lightning pickup at El mirage at 140.8 mph my question to you now is quite different is there a two up class racing motorcycles at El mirage thank you
I just commented on my run with the lightning pickup however the date is totally wrong it was done on 11/19/2000