Pinto Car Club of America
Shiny is Good! => General Pinto Talk => Topic started by: turbopinto72 on July 14, 2008, 09:14:10 PM
go to the link then to the bottom of the page to put together the puzzle. Have fun....
http://www.nhra.com/2008/gallery/pow/
By the way, this is a track I use to race on............... ;D
that was pretty cool. i used to race there too. took out a couple of transmissions there (2nd gear gone) that was a real nice facility. did you ever get a chance to get into the tower?
i got invited into the tower at a big funny car meet one year by a guynamed john barkley who ran a '57 chevy in the stock classes and managed Competition Specialties in anaheim.
i really liked irwindale though, on a sunday morning/afternoon you could show up with $7.00 and race all day if your car would last. some days it was ...make a run...cool down...make a run.. ALL day long.
there was a guy there at the time with a maverick / 302 that i used to race all the time when the car was N/A. he never did eat me though there were a lot of real close ones!
a lot of really fun times and good memories at both of those tracks. had a 1/2 day at irwindale with a couple of guys (forget their names) who were mechanics at huntington ford and had put together a pinto drag car.
nothing fancy mind you but they had the car in the mid to low 12's at the time. this was back in late '71 or early '72 i think while the Pangra program was starting out.
But Professor, I didn't have time to finish my essay.
I was putting together a Pinto puzzle :look: