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Sr Dragster Retires
Dolmetsch:
:) I have it in the vision!
Car is fixed as of an hour ago. Completely. I refired it. All is well.
don
Dolmetsch:
I will never forgot this moment , ever! I wanted to shout to my lil six "RUN FOREST RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
ricardo1967:
That is an awesome picture for sure!
I'm looking forward to start reading your Das Auto updates.
Dolmetsch:
Here are the last from a long time ago now when I first built it before paint and from the first night I ran it ever.
I remember after all the work of reworking the carbs making the complicated 4 line fuel system I took it to Shannonville track for a Fri Night test and tune. It ran perfect first pass. No bucking no farting just smooth and strong for back then. I had borrowed an old set of slicks that probably should have been burnt and it managed to give them a puff of smoke in all three gears. I made one run, had a coke with my pals and loaded it up and came home. One RED pilot asked me why I was going home and I remember telling him "I wouldn't ruin this night for anything." I sat on the couch mulling it over till 2 Am when I finally went to bed. The last run while a lot faster then the first by a long shot left me with the same pleasure. As you can probably see now I can retire it and enjoy the good times it gave me. It has been a great car for this ol boy!
Dolmetsch:
I forgot but should include in the story why did I build the car a shorty? First I liked the very early rails with their funky one of a kind appearance but also in the 70s I did a motor combo for a friend who was a local farm boy. He had bought my 32 Bantam altered I had quit on when I got married and asked me to supply an engine, any engine as long as it was mopar for it so we could go racing. I had a good 170 slant six and its push button trans and I had a Corvair turbo charger so I married the two. Here it is at Cayuga on its first voyage. Ran 12s out of the box and he took it to the track in the back of his dads 70s GMC longbox. I always liked that idea so......
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