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Old Oct 6, 2006 | 06:20 AM
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Born and live in the UK (someone has to!)

Run a property company which helps pay for the drag racing habit

Currently drag racing a '99 Z28 with nitroused 434 small block chevy. Swapped out the LS1 as couldn't find anyone to tune it in the UK back then, wish I'd kept it now seeing what people are doing with theirs.
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Old Oct 6, 2006 | 07:36 AM
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Welcome! Post some pic of the Z28!
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Old Oct 6, 2006 | 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by bigmouseuk
Hi

Born and live in the UK (someone has to!)

Run a property company which helps pay for the drag racing habit

Currently drag racing a '99 Z28 with nitroused 434 small block chevy. Swapped out the LS1 as couldn't find anyone to tune it in the UK back then, wish I'd kept it now seeing what people are doing with theirs.
Alright matey!!!

I recognise the name and the car

I'm only just down the A5 about 15 mins from MK. Nice to see you've found this forum.
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Old Oct 6, 2006 | 08:07 AM
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Welcome to tech.
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Old Oct 6, 2006 | 08:51 AM
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Thanks for the welcome.

300bhp/ton, where you from?

Plenty of pics of the car on the website and some poor quality vids; need to update it for next season.
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Old Oct 6, 2006 | 09:27 AM
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I'm only down the road not far from Leighton Buzzard.
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Old Oct 6, 2006 | 10:58 AM
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that's awesome you have an f-bob in the uk. If I lived there I would def. have an f-bod and shock everyone. welcome to the site.
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Old Oct 7, 2006 | 04:29 AM
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that's awesome you have an f-bob in the uk. If I lived there I would def. have an f-bod and shock everyone. welcome to the site.
F bodies are probably the most popular american cars in the UK; go to any of the big shows here in the UK and the show fields are full of them from 1st to 4th gens. Got a lot of them being raced too in the various race series held over here. Theres a vid on my website of me racing a 69 camaro who used to be the fastest car in the Saturday Street Racer series A 69 v 99 faceoff is pretty rare over here http://www.bigmouseracing.co.uk/movies02.asp
sorry about the quality of the video, we had to use a stills camera set to video as the camcorder got dropped!
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Old Oct 7, 2006 | 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by bigmouseuk
F bodies are probably the most popular american cars in the UK; go to any of the big shows here in the UK and the show fields are full of them from 1st to 4th gens. Got a lot of them being raced too in the various race series held over here. Theres a vid on my website of me racing a 69 camaro who used to be the fastest car in the Saturday Street Racer series A 69 v 99 faceoff is pretty rare over here http://www.bigmouseracing.co.uk/movies02.asp
sorry about the quality of the video, we had to use a stills camera set to video as the camcorder got dropped!
From what I understand (and have observed in Autosport), there are many 1st & 2nd gen old road race and Trans Am series cars competing in vintage/historic road races as well. Right?
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Old Oct 7, 2006 | 01:39 PM
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how is it owning an fbody right near the f1 shops?
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Old Oct 7, 2006 | 03:21 PM
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welcome
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