coolest race car in your opinion?
12-22-2006, 10:48 AM
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Bill Rimmer's old POS coupe. The first time I saw it he had a 632 cid BBC with Big Chief heads and multiple foggers and a year later it was a SBF with some dump truck turbo (considerably larger than a 106mm). I bet he had under $10k in the whole car and was running high 6s in the 1/4. The wheel wells looked like he used a chain saw to stretch them and his wheelie bars looked like an aluminum ladder he found on the freeway.
He got the keys to JR Granatelli's pro 5.0 car soon after that though and retired the beater. He's driving the car in the left lane against Grebeck and unfortunately got tied up in his fatal crash.
Rod Saboury's 94 TA was also a badass ****. He's the one that brought turbos back into the mainstream. It was a Jerry Bickel chassis with a 383cid Dutweiller turbo motor. On the outside the car looked stock as hell with slightly longer wheel wells. Then it'd bust off some 6.7s back when guys like Tony Christian and Pat Musi were struggling to get into the 6s. The next season Bob Rieger bought that car and put a turbo motor in his truck, ever since then they've dominated pretty much every class that allows them.
He got the keys to JR Granatelli's pro 5.0 car soon after that though and retired the beater. He's driving the car in the left lane against Grebeck and unfortunately got tied up in his fatal crash.
Rod Saboury's 94 TA was also a badass ****. He's the one that brought turbos back into the mainstream. It was a Jerry Bickel chassis with a 383cid Dutweiller turbo motor. On the outside the car looked stock as hell with slightly longer wheel wells. Then it'd bust off some 6.7s back when guys like Tony Christian and Pat Musi were struggling to get into the 6s. The next season Bob Rieger bought that car and put a turbo motor in his truck, ever since then they've dominated pretty much every class that allows them.
12-22-2006, 11:56 AM
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I knew you'd have some good ones BP! Wolfe's car is definately high on my list also, very bad *** ****. i heard somewhere its getting twins and a new paint job for this season???
12-22-2006, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by skipperbisket
I knew you'd have some good ones BP! Wolfe's car is definately high on my list also, very bad *** ****. i heard somewhere its getting twins and a new paint job for this season???
12-22-2006, 12:24 PM
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68/69/70 Trans Am Race cars where pretty cool (Z-28s. Boss Stangs, T/A Challengers, AAR Cudas and AMC Javlins) I think that series lasted 66-72 but I like these ones best.
12-22-2006, 04:50 PM
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definatly a big variety picked so far, figured there'd be more drag cars but some of those old road race cars were damn nice, and very dominant. C5-R and C6-R are both on the list as well. I'd also included the original 1st Gen "Sunoco" Camaro
12-22-2006, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by skipperbisket
who's is that gearhead? reminds me of an old drag radial car...
