Your story reminds me of the first time I really got it on in my old 396 powered
T-bucket. I was 26 when I bought it, and I knew the potential for trouble it
had.
400 hp in a 2000 lb car. I was really good about driving it in a safe and sane
manner...until.
I was at a parking lot get together with some friends when some yuppie kids in
Dad's Beemer pulled in. One of them started mouthing off about hot rods in
general, so I told him to get in for a ride. I took him for a cruise around
downtown, and he was still badmouthing the cars. So, when the light turned green
at an intersection we were stopped at, I put my foot to the floor. Never tried
it
before that day. The car was well built, and it hooked up. It pulled the front
wheels almost 2 feet in the air before I could react and get off the gas. Scared
the sh*t out of me, and the kid had turned pure white! Think he peed himself.
Didn't lose control of the car or anything, just the thought that it had the
power to pull the front wheels was incredible! We got back to the parking lot,
and he jumped out and ran to his friends, shaking like a leaf. Didn't hear
another bad word out of him, though. They took off pretty quick, never saw them
again. *LOL*
Alan Gingles
1948 Chevy 1314
http://www.nucleus.com/~agingles
STMSymank@aol.com wrote:
> I hope you dont get it on in that truck.
> I had a 36 ford pickup with a HiPro 289 and a c4. I scared my self and
> the guy who invented the demarini softball bat so bad that I never drove it
> again. Sold it without riding in it on the test drive. Chrome reverse 6"
> cragers on the front and 8" on the back.It sounded so good that you couldn't
> drive it without getting on it . It had a quirck. Every serious commitment
> to torture sent it into a brody. Usually a 270 degree spin that sent your
> momentum sideways the direction you were traveling. I rolled (on the wheels)
> forward after one of those and stopped inches from a deep ravine. Man . My
> heart feels like it was yesterday. Sure have grown to like those stock 36
> fords
>
> Caution is learned by experience.Im feeling old
> Stan the man Symank
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