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Why a FED or Nostalgia racing

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wideopen231:
A thread for little fun.

What made you want to race a FED or other style of nostalgia car over more modern boring cookie cutter,oops kind of giving away part of my reason.

For me FED is cooler(to me),different than 10,000 RED's,lighter and little tuning challange to make it work as a bracket car. Most importent is its badass IMO and I am the one flipping the bill.

BK:
For me at first it was the look of a FED. Then I got one and it was a blast to drive. But I didn't really know how much I liked it until I had a RED.

JakeB23:
Because people will walk past 10 RED's going 4.7x's in the lanes to talk to me about my 5.50 FED.

As one guy said, "if I wanted to see flawless pretty cars, my hobby would have been car shows, but I'm a racer.."

Paul New:
my dad started running a FED in 84 while I was a kid and it is the only kind of car I know of that should go down a dragstrip....

PSweeney:
for me it was originally the cheapest and most accessible way to go drag racing.  In the UK we don't have the RWD V8 cars for easy street /strip fun, and american muscle cars were out of my price range.  My first slingshot was a 120" powered by a Ford V6 which I later put a Rover V8 in (aluminium Buick 215).  Got bitten by the bug and have been racing and building cars since. 

I may one day build a RED if only for the challenge of building a split chassis and something comfortable to drive.  I'm not hung up on the FED thing, what puts me off a RED is the way they're churned out with little to no individuality.  They've become a tool rather than an engineering art form. I put modern TF TED's in that category also.  For me the looks of a front engine car is as, if not more important that how it goes.

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