another new old guy

lurking for about a year, decided time to jump in the fun.
I live just outside of the old west town of Deadwood. I've been a motorhead for as long as I can remember. My first encounter with brute horsepower was my dad did some work on a 427 AC Cobra owned by actor Zero Mostel, and he took me along for a test ride. I was 9 or 10, and have not been "normal" since. It didn't help that at the tender age of 14 my parents moved just down the street from a nitro funnycar racer, and allowed me to travel with his family during summers.
My first pass on a dragstrip was in a factory SS/D Cuda in 1971 and My latest pass was today in a new nastolgia A/FD. Let the fun begin!

Welcome to the family Jay. :) Sounds like you are having fun with it and that is what it's all about. Is the dragster yours? That has to be a blast.


Don

Hey Jay, welcome!!! How's things going out in your end of the state???

Glad your here and welcome to Club Hotrod.
Sounds like a blast running a nastolgia A/FD. Have some pictures?
Larry M.

A horsepower and drag race junkie! My kinda people!

Welcome! ....from another Jay.

Welcome to da forum!

Keith**)

Ditto! I envy anyone who fell in love with a 427 Cobra, even if you were only 9 or 10!! (I would have been about 17 or 18 at the time.....:HMMM:)

Thanks for the welcome. Yes, the dragster is mine. We did a checkout pass with the car at the Sturgis track on Sunday when nobody else was around. We've been building this for a while. The chassis cert runs out in early 2010 so I need to get it reinspected before pulling the trigger in anger. The plan is to run with the midwest wild bunch just to learn the car next summer. Should be in Pierre a couple of times with it or my ADRL promod motorcycle. Somebody must have taken pictures yesterday, I was a bit preoccupied. I haven't had grasshopper leg in years, but that first fire up did the trick!

Yes, the fueler is mine. Ran it for the first time (other than just starting the engine at the shop) at Sturgis dragway Have you ever had grasshopper leg from nerves? This thing gives me grasshopper body. Shook all over. 50 degrees and no one else around (nice to have private access for testing). Somebody had a camera but I wasn't paying attention to them. I'll try to track down pictures. I did 2 short blasts then felt a vibration while trying a burnout for a third I didn't like, so we loaded up and hauled home.
Tore it down yesterday (Thanksgiving) and found that a main bearing had turned itself into 3 pieces. This is going to be an expensive deal.
My wife is all for this car, as it marks the end of a 20+ year journey on fuel motorcycles as a gun for hire.
(Hi my name is J and I'm a speed junkie)