Where was that picture taken? Sitting here in Manhattan NYC, riding the train to work every day, I dream about owning a car like that, driving around those wide open spaces.
Posted on 02/25/2007 5:52:25 PM PST by StarCMC
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Where was that picture taken? Sitting here in Manhattan NYC, riding the train to work every day, I dream about owning a car like that, driving around those wide open spaces.
Its a beautiful car. I would have painted it hemi orange also.
BTTT
Not in miles, but in most other ways it is about as far from NYC as you can get. We're in the middle of nowhere on the high plains of eastern Colorado. Dry and dusty, coyotes and rattlers, and a neat, little town called Julesburg not too far away.
Located in the extreme NE corner of Colorado along the Nebraska border, they shut down the airport on Sundays and have a sanctioned NHRA drag strip. The timing electronics are portable and kept in an old school bus that they park by the starting line.
This is father and son, (my brother and nephew), in the staging lanes. The red one is a true '70 Roadrunner but it used to be a 383 car, now a Hemi.
The Hemi used to be mine, had it in the 'Cuda I told you about, but not with a supercharger. The wrath of that Hemi when the puffer kicks in is almost surreal.
Believe it or not, my Challenger went quicker that day by about 3/10s of a second, but only because the nephew smokes the tires almost all the way down the track, which is far beyond ludicrous because he runs 22 inch wide drag radials on it, (wish I had a picture of the backside of it to post). He did beat his daddy though, which was rude. You should always let your dad win.
The car is a handful and a half, to say the least!
"I almost bought a '69 Road Runner with a 383...but I decided not to when I decided to solve my draft board worries by joining."
I got a blast from the past from your post. I recall looking at a 1969 Camaro convertible Indy Pace Car on the showroom floor and wondering who in the world could afford to pay $4100. for a car.....beautiful as it was.
I was in college at the time and also made the decision to leave school and enlist in the military.
EODGUY
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