1964 F100 with a 390 Merc that I traded my brothers mini bike for . John still has hard feelings about that . 68 GTO that I spent my Texaco gas pumping paycheck on for 2 years . I drove it to Brownstown one night and decided that I needed one of those racecars worse than the old goat . A friend of mine gave me $900 for it and I promptly spent it on a 9" Ford floater , a kit to make a Powerglide direct drive , some zoomie headers and a set of angle plug Traco heads . It all came together and we won the Hobby Stock points at Brownstown that year with Tony Moore driving . My crew fired me before I even drove the thing once . They put Tony in it the first night to "sort it out" and he won the feature . That kind of sealed my fate as " default driver " . When they couldn`t find anyone else they let me drive . The crew finally got tired of dirt falling off in their faces from the hard top and sold what was left . They acquired a 79 Stewart sprint car . It was a box but we thought it was the greatest . The first lap of the first race I was in I followed Jeff Donaldson and Marvin Deputy into 1 at Lawenceburg . I threw it in backwards on the bottom with my 49" rear axle and 6" off RR wheel. A valuable lesson on too much side-bite was learned from that experience . That was the first of many times that I would get to repair some crash damage from a bad decision.
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