"Charley" ...New ride for 2007 Power Tour

Verne_Frantz · #1 11-14-2006, 02:18 AM

That car is just the OPPOSITE of what "Pro-Street" cars were in the '80s. Fairgrounds cars with beautiful engines, paint, graphics, chassis, interiors............only none of them actually RAN good at all (if they even started at all)!!

I think the concept is very cool for someone who wants to imagine he's still back in 1970 or so with the baddest sleeper in existance, but as for today, I'd still rather have a good looking car. The days of midnight street racing with a dumpy looking car for money are over. If we could go back, it is certainly the car we'd all want to drive in to the local cruise spot and choose our next victim. It's a car that would be the perfect "best a sleeper could have been back then" car for that purpose, but as I said, it's only an image of the ultimate sleeper we can imagine in the past. As for today, I feel that it has no purpose. When we drive into the same cruise spot, I'd think most would prefer a nice looking car as well. We're no longer trying to fool anyone to putting an extra "C" note in our pocket.
That's just my own personal opinion. I do recognize the expert engineering work that went into it though.

Verne

**Charley Lillard** · #2 11-14-2006, 05:14 AM

The car would be easy to take apart, do the paint and interior.

Verne_Frantz · #3 11-14-2006, 05:40 AM

Come on Charlie, that would turn into a 6 month project and you know it!

BUT it would be a much better car when done

**Charley Lillard** · #4 11-14-2006, 06:16 AM

With me it would be a two year project...

**kwhizz** · #5 11-14-2006, 06:42 AM

The Tow Hitch is "Killer"

..............Anyone notice it......

Ken

**Xplantdad** · #6 11-14-2006, 06:54 AM

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The Tow Hitch is "Killer"

..............Anyone notice it......

Ken

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Yep...that car looked cool in person EH Ken?

Thanks for the call BTW.

Your request has benn taken care of!

68l30 · #7 11-14-2006, 07:04 AM

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The days of midnight street racing with a dumpy looking car for money are over........

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Come on out to Cleveland on a summer night....It's still going strong...It's not quite as obvious as it once was.Today it's done with cell phones.....Gotta be in the loop

Steve

**tom406** · #8 11-14-2006, 09:14 PM

I don't know, Verne. If a guy just wants to go out and get some attention and blow a few minds, I think you're better off leaving it as-is. To have the same visual impact that is has now as a SuperBeater, you'd have to go all out on paint, body, and interior. And once you did an ISCA level job on the cosmetics, would you really want to do full length burnouts or take it to the burger stand? Not that I don't like pretty cars, but if you do an average restoration on this car ($5K to 8K paint, new repro interior, etc) it just becomes another nice Nova (albeit with an extraordinary drivetrain). I'd be in the "as-is" category of buyers.

As a former owner of Jim Hughes' old 11-second turbocharged '72 Nova which looked all the world like a granny car with a set of Rally wheels on it, I believe there is still fun to be had on the "walk softly and carry a Really Big Stick" side of the hobby

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