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Rick

Rick

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RicinYakima said:
Yakima has had a "stock car" track here since the 1930's. Here a "stock car" has to have an engine block and body of the same manufacturer. But they are built on tube chassis and not anything I think of as streetable hot road car.
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Most would call this a "Modified" division. Depends on the sanctioning body of the racing at any particular track. Some smaller tracks don't use a sanctioning body and just put on their own thing. But there are still "Stock Car" races. Last track I seen it they called the "hobby" class.
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
We had a "hobby" class until the meltdown in 2008. Two of the local firefighters ran competing cars.
 
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popper

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Rick, As bro passed recently, going back through family history,
actually on Mom's side, from Hallowell Ks. Anyway, found that page about Ohio. Fortunately it tracks a bunch of history about the expansion of the US into midwest after the war of 1812. This was before Tn/Ky people moved west. Stuff they don't teach in school. Look at geography and you see why northeast/Virginia people came through there.
Sometime in the mid 50s, dad took me to the Pittsburg Ks mining area and out to the huge dragline machine. He talked to guys working there, I just watched the machine work. Recently found this. Second largest in the world at the time.
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JonB

JonB

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I recently posted (FB) a photo I took of another Bucyrus-Erie.
A well drilling rig that's been sitting on my late friend's property, where I use to cut firewood.
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462

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Hmmm . . . A range friend is a farmer, and he told me this morning that he needs a new well.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
RicinYakima said:
The last really fast Olds. '58's had so much wind resistence they could not get to speed.
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Don't know about that. Friend in HS mother had a 65 Delta 88 with a 455 in it. We opened it up on I 94, outside of Detroit, in the middle of the night. Could see red tail lights in the distance and in a blink of the eye, we were on their ass. That behemoth was scary fast.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Now that I think about it it might have been a Delta 98............ we never wore seat belts, back then.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I learned to drive on my dad's a 67 Buick Lesabre. It was a real dog. Had a 340 V8 with only a two barrel. Myself would have preferred the Wildcat or even the Electra deuce and a quarter.
 
JonB

JonB

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my second car was a 71 Olds Delta 88 (455) that I inherited from my Grandpa...it was geared well and was plenty fast. The 98s with the big block from that era were also quite fast. Now they weren't a Delta 98, they were labeled "Ninety-Eight" (I had a buddy with a Ninety-Eight from this era). Now I specifically use the word "fast", instead of quick...because they both were so big and heavy, they didn't do well off the line, but once you'd get out of second gear, they were "ready to GO".
 
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harm

harm

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I owned a 69 Buick LeSabre for a while. It was a four door that had been chopped into a convertible, with marbled black racing stripes down the hood and trunk that were expertly crafted from adhesive cabinet liner. I will say, I think I bought it mostly because the price was right, though one of the conditions of buying it was proving simply that I could get it to start when cold. The 350 with the 4-barrel was a decent combination, but I didn't dare push the thing past highway speed. Would've been fun to fix up mechanically, but dad sent it to the scrapyard when I moved. Too ugly to store in the back field, it turned out.
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Yep, I tried to wrap my 56 Buick Super (Roadmaster size) Rivera (4 door hardtop) in yellow, red and black paint around a telephone pole my senior year in HS. However, it just sheared the pole off and pushed the center door post to the frame. It had two 4-barrels and the ribbon speedometer would turn all red and peg out at 120 and I still had 1/2 in of throttle. Used bias-ply tires and what were seat belts?
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

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I had a 70 Lesabre for a couple years, 350 V8 and 4 bbl carb. It was a good car with plenty of power, and to this day remains the most comfortable car to ride in that I have ever owned.
 
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