This was at the Crystal City track, which is an old air strip. There's all kinds of bumps, pot-holes, and it's uphill. The launch pad is really slippery and most of the high-powered cars were spinning through half the track.
I had raced early that day against a Shelby Cobra(not a mustang). I remember pulling up to the staging beams and hearing all hell break loose[Cobra doing a burnout]. My windows were blacked out, so I couldn't see it + my harness kept me front sticking my head out the window. Anyway, then I see the front of it with those huge pipes coming out the side. I remember thinking to myself..."Wow, I've never seen a real Shelby Cobra up close...I'm 'bout to have a whole 1/4mile to study the tail-lights". When we took off, I made sure to take off atleast as hard as him, but careful not to spin. Once I knew I hooked, I put it to the floor and watched him fall behind. People said I beat him by atleast 2 cars.
The car I was racing against in the video was a Z28. I don't know what all he had done, but I remember him saying he had ported LS6 heads and an exhaust, not sure on what else. I hit the brakes early, about right when I got even with the camera, to soften the impacts at the end of the track(huge dips caused me to bottom out). I ended up scraping my LCA's and crushed my chin spoiler. I decided not to race anymore after that.
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I'm hoping to get my truck tuned(if I can find someone to help me), then take it to HRP and race my uncle. He has a green 69 GTO Judge clone with a 505 in it. Maybe some of ya'll have seen him there with his Pontiac club? I don't think he runs it very often though.


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