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Liquid Knight

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15,754 posts

189 months

Monday 30th September 2013
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Wow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyqxn0shKQ

It's like a stretched GT40-esque chassis with a truck body dropped on it. wink

Liquid Knight

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15,754 posts

189 months

Thursday 10th October 2013
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Npa-9XNL4

Another seven second Camaro. smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykZH8ouKRMI

A broken Monte Carlo.

Maybe a Lancia Monte Carlo would have been better. wink

Tet

1,196 posts

210 months

Thursday 10th October 2013
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Liquid Knight said:
Maybe a Lancia Monte Carlo would have been better. wink
A friend of mine used to race his Lancia Monte Carlo at Santa Pod years ago. From memory, it was doing about 13s (and that was in far from stock trim).

Camaro

1,421 posts

181 months

Saturday 12th October 2013
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For anyone that was following Drag Week, this is happening next year...



UK Power Tour 2014

Uk's answer to the American Drag Week! V8s, Muscle Cars, Daily Drives, Pro Street and any other street legal cars in a multi day multi drag strip racing event!

http://www.facebook.com/UKPowerTour

Liquid Knight

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15,754 posts

189 months

Saturday 12th October 2013
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Brilliant! smile

I'd better get to work on my Panda. hehe

bulla003

69 posts

176 months

Sunday 27th October 2013
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Flame & Thunder show was on the 26th October 2013 - was epic - much like every event that goes on at Santa Pod Raceway. Its a one to watch...

Liquid Knight

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15,754 posts

189 months

Monday 28th October 2013
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bulla003 said:
Flame & Thunder show was on the 26th October 2013 - was epic - much like every event that goes on at Santa Pod Raceway. Its a one to watch...
Sounds good. Did you take any photo's?

We can make this a general drag thread if you like.

Liquid Knight

Original Poster:

15,754 posts

189 months

Tuesday 5th November 2013
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VORuB6yXKiM

Another Nova.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lriKOfMuWXo

A close of of the Wagon losing it's wheelie bar.

Liquid Knight

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15,754 posts

189 months

Saturday 7th December 2013
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My Panda is signed up to the UK Power Tour. hehe

Should be a laugh. wink

JB!

5,255 posts

186 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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Drag week is back!!!

Some very quick times and some big name casualties already...

central

16,744 posts

223 months

Turn7

24,110 posts

227 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Tell me. Ive been reading some stuff about DW of late. Am I right that the open close cars are removing cooling systems and changing shocks ect before a strip run ?

That doesnt really tie in with the street legal thing surely ?

Tet

1,196 posts

210 months

Sunday 14th September 2014
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Turn7 said:
Am I right that the open close cars are removing cooling systems and changing shocks ect before a strip run ?
Some are. Larry Larson changes quite a lot between street trim and race trim. Others change less. It's an impressive feat, certainly, but is it a street car? Not really. Then again, I wouldn't say Frosty's is either. They're cars that can be made street legal with varying degrees of effort. I wonder how much slower a top NHRA Pro Mod would be if you added the minimum necessary to make it street legal.

Quickest and fastest street car? I'd guess that'd be Steve Neimantas.

Total loss

2,138 posts

233 months

Monday 15th September 2014
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Tet said:
Quickest and fastest street car? I'd guess that'd be Steve Neimantas.
What about Doug Clines '69 Camaro ? all steel, no slicks, no trailer
ran an average 6.8 @ 210mph over the 5 tracks (all 6 sec runs), came 2nd in the unlimited class


Tet

1,196 posts

210 months

Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Total loss said:
What about Doug Clines '69 Camaro ? all steel, no slicks, no trailer
I love Doug's car. But he runs with wheelie bars, IIRC on methanol and isn't he running on cheater slicks?

Liquid Knight

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15,754 posts

189 months

Tuesday 16th September 2014
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As per the Hot Rod Magazine (we don't like Andy Frost) "Unlimited Class" rules. You can drive to the event, do whatever you like to the car in the parking lot, do a pro-mod run, make the vehicle road legal again and drive to the next track.

My ten Cents worth if a car drives from the road to the tree, does a quarter and drives back on to the road then it's a street legal quarter mile. Driving the car, stripping it back to pro-mad spec, doing a quarter and putting all the stuff back is a pro-mod quarter in a car that is then made road legal again.

I think Larry's truck is great for two reasons. It's a truck so Red Victor III is still the worlds fastest car and Dave Frieburger said "Let's see what you can do" and he did.

Edited by Liquid Knight on Tuesday 16th September 13:44

fc72

6 posts

123 months

Tuesday 16th September 2014
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We can all bh/moan about what is street legal/street useable but till they are proper rules, it's always going to be a if/but thing. What would happen if someone ran a five dead on a airfield in Zimbabwe with a funny car but drove it there on idle ????