Thread: Whats a good inexpinsive car for the strip?

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You can go as quick as 11.50 with just a driveshaft loop and a good helmet. Roll bars start at 11.49.

Ditto on the 79- 92 mustangs. We run at Cordova and Earlville and there seem to be a ton of those things running, especially when they have a high school night or a street car shoot out. Nice to see kids getting into them instead of Hondas. (No direct intention to offend our Ricer brethren on this board).

Now to the safety issue. Just two Sundays ago a young guy totaled his late 80's mustang at Cordova. The car runs deep in the 9's and it obviously passed tech, but that didn't help him much as he is now paralyzed from the waist down. He was torn up quite badly and the car was pretty much destroyed.
These mustangs can be wicked fast but they can get wicked squirley if the chassis is not built to perfection.
After 40 years of racing I've found out you either
DO IT RIGHT OR DON'T DO IT AT ALL!!
John

......yep, as Shawn stated above, a Fox Body Mustang would be a great choice. Or a '82 on up 3rd generation Camaro/Firebird. They are also cheap & errodinamic. Even though the Mustang might be a better choice, myself I prefer the looks of the '82 up Firebirds. In fact I had a '84 Camaro that I put on a 'diet' and the last time I weighted it at the truck stop it was 2800 lbs. AND I took more weight off after that. I went TOTALLY nuts on the weight loss thing. Not only did I take/cut everything off that wasn't necessary for performance/safety I even went so far as to cut the ends off of long bolts! Actually building a car is hard for me, BUT cutting stuff off is MY speciality! Bill