Thread: Whats a good inexpinsive car for the strip?

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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

A few years ago my Son and I went to the Mustang Nationals in Bradenton, Fl, and there is this full sized Ford station wagon running there that turned me on. The guy has a sense of humor about it, and has "within budget" shoepolished into the back windows. The announcer says things like " when his wife finds out he is not just out for a loaf of bread, he's gonna be in trouble". The guy was having a blast, and the car is there every week and rarely breaks anything.

So, at the time I was working at a body shop, and an abandoned Ford Granada wagon got towed in and the wheels started turning. It is built on the same Fox platform as the Mustangs, so all the usual parts will fit. I have an unused 466 ci Ford that is built and waiting for some project, so I figured this would be a fun way to go racing. I bought the car for $ 200.00 and began to strip it to the bare bones. Then Hurricane Charlie hit, and our shop got the roof taken off, so we had to move. To simplify the move I scrapped a lot of stuff, including the wagon, so the project never happened.

But the point is, a wagon would make a great bracket car. Good weight distribution, lots of room to carry your tools and slicks to the track, and it would be cool to blow some doors off with an ugly old wagon. I'd even put a baby seat in the back for effect, and leave the roof rack on it.


Don

Don, To my knowladge all Granada's were built on the Maverick/ Falcon platform. Fairmonts were foxbody's

Save your money and buy an old dragster frame and build it. It won't get any lighter or more aerodynamic than that. Old frames can be bought cheap. The time you find a full body car and do a build you can buy and old frame and go real fast. A 100lbs is worth a .10 seconds. So what going to be faster a 3500 lb car or a 1400 lb dragster.

Don, To my knowladge all Granada's were built on the Maverick/ Falcon platform. Fairmonts were foxbody's
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You are absolutely right, it was a Fairmont. What ever it was, it was ugly as h***.

Don

Originally Posted by RPM

Save your money and buy an old dragster frame and build it. It won't get any lighter or more aerodynamic than that. Old frames can be bought cheap. The time you find a full body car and do a build you can buy and old frame and go real fast. A 100lbs is worth a .10 seconds. So what going to be faster a 3500 lb car or a 1400 lb dragster.

I like that idea!

....yeah I also really like the Pinto idea. In fact I once owned a Pinto, believe it was a '70 or '71, don't remember. They are really light, & no smog.... zzz