Welcome to Race Car Enterprises. This is exciting to me to be able to share the things that I enjoy with others and hopefully find others that like what I do. For years I watched and listened to recordings of national events and dreamed of the day when I would get me chance to race. Once I had a license like a lot of my peers we tested the roads with our hot rods and our ability to out run the police. But time passes and we mature and get away from those things and settle down.
Our desire to race is still there but we funnel it into legal ways to do it rather than visit the police station every weekend. For some of you this may bring back memories. In this blog I will show some of my rides and some future rides that I am looking to get. Please share with me your race car experiences and photos of your ride.
My very first ride was a 1956 Chevy 2 door coupe Bellaire. It was British racing Green with black interior. The coupe if you remember was a real sweet ride because it was not like the 210 models that had the post between the front and rear windows on each side. With the coupe it was wide open like a convertible without the retractable top.
I had a 265 v8 motor in it with a two barrel carb and a three speed manual transmission. I changed the carburetor out for a small four barrel carb. It had hedman headers and some higher priced tires on the car. I did not get the chance to really work with the car because of an accident that happened while taking my brother around the block.
I came around this one curve like always did, the car handled real well, but this time there was some sand on the road and the car slide out of control. I slammed into the concrete guard posts on the side of the road and broke one of them. The front end of the car was damaged on the passenger side. I wanted to keep it but my father didn’t want me fooling around with the car anymore. He was mad at me because he had to pay for the concrete post I broke.
Since then I have had several cars mostly pro street type cars that would get up and move.
There was the car I had for a while in the Navy while stationed in San Diego, California.
This was a 1957 convertible; once again it was British racing green, with white interior, four speed manual transmissions, and a 327 bored .030 over bore with high compression pistons, flat tappet cam, and dual quads with a fuel cell totally streetable. But it would move well over one hundred miles an hour with ease. Raced it upon occasion, but never for titles or money. Just for fun. The car was great. Searched high and low for a picture of the 1957 Convertible but have not found one, because I wanted to find one with the same color.
Once I came out of the Navy I purchased a Plymouth Road Runner 1968. It was that light sky blue color which was popular in those days. I had Mickey Thompson Tires on the rear with cragar brushed aluminum five spokes. The motor was a 383 with a four barrel carb and a four speed transmission. It had the Dana rear end I believe the gear ratio was about 353. The interior was blue vinyl with black carpets. The transmission and shifter were a Hurst four speed shifter with the white knob and the shift pattern on the top stuck out when you first looked in the car.
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Then there was the 1967 Camaro Convertible was maroon with white leather interior. This was a street car which I in turn modified and made a little more street lethal. I had big tires, but no fancy wheels. It was a sleeper.
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Then there was the 1968 Camaro Hardtop. This was a powerful car. It had a 431 cubic inch, motor in it with 750 double pumper Holley carb, Muncie high performance 4 speed transmissions with 11″ hays clutch, nine inch ford rear end with 410 gears. It screamed and beat 428 cobras, corvettes and even some Mopars. It beat my brothers 427 1967 Chevelle which put out 450 hp.
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Then there was my favorite of all.
The 1970 Chevelle Super Sport 454. This car was a sleeper. It was grey exterior with black interior a Hurst shifter four speed manual transmission on the floor, big tires on the back and smaller tires on the front. They were street racing tires, had hooker headers, 800 cfm Holley carb double pumper and it ran super fast and quiet on the inside. Good stereo and seats.
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Then there was the Corvair. This was my detour for a season.
I have some things in mind now. I desire to run a professional class drag racing car in a national event. I did that many years ago with a 1967 Chevy Nova II Super Sport Modified Production Car NHRA class C/SM. Every part of this car was cherry. There was not an after market part in the whole body. All stock steel. The front fenders were replacement though because they were lighter than the factory stock ones. This was my favorite on the track. There was not another car that could beat it in its class in New Jersey. I ran in the Summer Nationals an NHRA event which was in July back then. There was another car which I heard was the sister car of the one I had but I never had the chance of racing him. Just could not connect.
But now I am looking at the Pro Stock Class car. I like the idea of getting in and out of a door. It’s what is more commonly called “door slammers.” Here is a glimpse at what I am seeing.
More to come……
