Love these cars! They are definitely iconic. And I think the challenge of making something with the aerodynamics of a cow barn go fast, appeals to a lot of drag racers.
makes me miss my first car. A 57 chevy 2 door poster, three speed top shifter, 4.11, 283, .o60 bore, duntov cam, two fours, and headman headers, I was hard to beat in 1962, for the first five hundred feet....
Excellent content! These cars originally gave me the horsepower fever. My father had a 55' Chevy with a tilt front end, 327 SBC , it was featured in car craft magazine. Every time I build a shoebox now it makes me wonder how some of the younger generation doesn't want muscle cars, this is real racing.
Those were the days I miss my 55 what a ride it was built to the max competition orange just a beautiful car I kick myself in the butt for selling it........
@catmodelt Yes, I went to Oswego drag strip (and Byron drag strip), remember seeing E.J. Potter, the Michigan Madman, at Oswego and Hurst Hemi Underglass there!
Luv'd ever minute of it fellas!! Thanks very much for putting it together and sharing just before Christmas. Even tho there's gobs a footage of it out there I was kinda hoping to see a couple pass's by Ron Crook's bad to tha bone AA/G '55 "Blu by You",, that sum bisch is tri 5 to the MAX!
Good stuff rite here fellas, recon that fella who manhandles his '55 as it took him a "joy slide" thru tha weeds had a pucker factor of 20 -- ON A SCALE OF 0 - 10! (in other words he broke tha pucker string!) AWESUM video!
Which one was my favorite? All of 'em, lol. Actually, Blasphemi was my favorite, I watched as the 426 Hemi was installed. That's one nice piece of work.
This is kinda like porno for old guys like me, go back. play, go back, play. That '55 orange wagon looked like a bullet off the line. I had a '57 in the late '60s with a 283, solid lifter cam and if the tach was accurate it would wind to 7000 RPM no sweat and I didn't have any mercy on it. It was a damn screamer!
I had a 55 competition orange with a 283 solid lifter cam 327 fuelie heads dual-point Corvette ignition built brand new from the ground up those were the days
All dragstrips should be 1/4 mile again. 1/8 miles not a race. My opinion anyway. Still lots of 1/4 mile tracks it's lots more fun running 1/4 mile tracks. looks like a couple of good tracks in the video.
At 3:08, isn't that the wagon that Dom Lagana crashed and lost his legs in? On the street, not wearing seatbelts, and with professional drag racers who should have known better?
