My most recent acquistion!

[olredalert]

-----Any insurance on a race car I ever heard of will only cover the car when its not being raced.Have often thought of the ramifications,but it was always more important to race,than worry.I went to great lengths to race safe and never had a problem.Do I think I was pressing my luck?...No...Loads of Drag racers have gone thier entire careers without a problem.Others have not been so lucky,but you do your best to take the problems out of the equation.There is something intrinsicly exciting about seeing the actual original car race.
-----Yes,"Red Alert" is faster than it was when it held the world record,but it is in every racers nature to go faster.Had Bob Hamilton kept racing he surely would have wanted to go faster as well.The only reason I never ran in the nines was because I would have had to change the nature of the car to meet new NHRA rules beyond what I felt was acceptable to me and "Red Alert" fans everywhere.I just didnt want to cut the car up any further.........Bill S

[69rsz28]

Hey Bill,

A little of this and ol "Red Alert" would have been in the 9's. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[MosportGreen66]

I do not know off hand what issue of Muscle Car Review it was, but someone had the exact same car (drag car with huge slicks) in the magazine. Amazing car, sorry!

-Dan
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[Canucklehead]

When i had my car stored for the winter, i did'nt realize that there was some junk stored in the attic above it and the guy that owned the garage dropped a lawnmower ontop of the car. All i got was a sorry when i picked it up in the spring. One nice summer day as we were trailering our cars to race for the weekend, one of the wheel bearings in the trailer siezed, he hit the ditch to save the car, everybody was ok, it could have been alot worse but crap happens. Sure looked funny driving the car down the highway to get to the meet. The cops pulled us over and just had to laugh, they escorted us the rest of the way. We were only about a 1/2hr away

[hvychev]

Why did you post this story in this thread?

[55chevy]

I was thinking the same thing.. and what "car" is he talking about??????

[Belair62]

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One nice summer day as we were trailering our cars to race for the weekend, one of the wheel bearings in the trailer siezed, he hit the ditch to save the car, everybody was ok, it could have been alot worse but crap happens.

[/ QUOTE ] He is catching up !!! Look at the first post on this thread !!!