Poser road race corvettes

[DJ Dep]

Does a drag strip count? But it wasn't in a C3

What do you think? Every swinging dick has been on a drag strip. And, I doubt you will ever be on a dragstrip in a C3, but it will make a nice coffin though. You must be saving it for that.

Have you?
Show us the pics.

 

[turtlevette]

You know what I mean, the part where turtlevet gets the crap embarrased out of himself and then is too stupid to even realize it. Good entertainment.

Go for it.

If someone wants to embarass me they need to prove me wrong in a scientific way. Not merely calling me trailer trash or my car a POS like a certain english major we all know and love. He lacks the technical knowledge to ever prove me wrong and i'm not worried about you either.

I really don't care who is posting what. I argue with ideas and concepts and i don't get intelluctally dishonest just to take a crap on some guy. You are either technically right or wrong. I give my friends as much crap as anyone else if i think they are wrong. I will acknowledge when DB is right.

And i really hate the pile on mentality where a guy says something unpopular then the whole site attacks like a pack of hyenas. Thats a high school mentality where you do or say whatever it takes to be deemed "cool".

I couldn't give a rats ass whether anyone on this site or this whole friggin planet likes me or not.

 

[Bullshark]

Mid America Raceway

Back in my younger years (mid to late 70's), when I knew no fear..... We (Boonetrail Corvette Club) would rent out the local Racetrack for our Gateway Glass Reunion". We would schedule a drag race and a autocross during the extended weekend event. Held at Mid America Raceways, the track was a 1200' dragstrip located near Wentzville, Missouri. The facility also featured a 2.89 mile course which passed out of service quite some time before the dragstrip shut down. The road course was highly regarded, with varying elevation changes, a very long straight, and ten corners, 7 right and 3 left turns. There were 11 flag stations, #11 being on the straight after the driveover bridge near the end of the dragstrip. The dragstrip also had its run-off area downhill, so there was a strong need for good brakes.



Although, we did not do wheel to wheel racing, doing a timed hot lap around the track was all I could handle. We handed out trophies based on NCCC class. Can't remember what times I turned, but after a few practice laps, it was respectable for my car at that time and a rookie driver. No trophy though Here are a few photos from back then. I had my modified 70 454 (pre RamJet) at the time but was to busy running our timer to take pictures. Being the club EE, I designed an electronic timer using an old Heathkit electronic stop watch interfaced to an optical beam. :lol:

Here is a picture of one we pulled out of the woods on turn 7






Bullshark

P.S. After Reminiscing my younger racing experiences, I stumbled across this link. It pretty much sums up alot of my feelings and memories of the old "MAR". It's a shame all good things seem to pass.

MAR revisited

I especially remember damn near going air born over the top of this as it headed into the long straight away

 

[Yellow73SB]

I've only auto-x'd

I'm going to do some track events next year, and eventually get my SCCA comp license

I should hit 200mph at daytona in 2-3 years

 

[mrvette]

I've only auto-x'd

I'm going to do some track events next year, and eventually get my SCCA comp license

I should hit 200mph at daytona in 2-3 years

In a '91? ZR1 back in '97-99? I went to Atlanta with Doug Johnson on a vette cruise....he drove me shotgun around the track he dropped WAY back on the parade group...then took off like bat outta hell....we did a high bank oval at about 140, he was not fighting the wheel at all.....car just dug in and it went....only scarey thing is not seeing the sky, just pavement once used to it, no sweat....

I suspect in actuality a NASCAR ride would be like glue and easy to do the high banks....alone...

in traffic at ~200 mph....well.... that's why they make the big bux....

:stirpot:

 

[mrvette]

Bullshark, that beige car with the black hood stinger....

that hurts.....sad even today....

 

[Yellow73SB]

It will be in this bad boy....hopefully

Road course car, not an oval car

 

[kwplot34]

Hey Wayne,when you get to bleeding those brakes and putting the wheel's back on,you better have some pic's, pic's of the assistant helping you :yahoo:
if she is not in there don't bother posting

J/K but the pics would be better with SWMBO in them :amused::beer:

 

[Sadistic]

Wow........sounds to me like yellow owns a pet turtle. Go yellow racer, go.

 

[turtlevette]

Wow........sounds to me like yellow owns a pet turtle. Go yellow racer, go.

Blieve it or not i'd even back you if i thought you were right.

After reading through this whole thread i just kinda said to myself, wait a minute, how many of these guys dumping on Liverpool have even set foot on a road course much less driven a C3 hard in traffic. He who is without a pretty waxermobile......let him cast the first stone.

How about you? You told me yourself you don't want your paint to get nicked.

 

[DJ Dep]

Wow........sounds to me like yellow owns a pet turtle. Go yellow racer, go.

Blieve it or not i'd even back you if i thought you were right.

After reading through this whole thread i just kinda said to myself, wait a minute, how many of these guys dumping on Liverpool have even set foot on a road course much less driven a C3 hard in traffic. He who is without a pretty waxermobile......let him cast the first stone.

How about you? You told me yourself you don't want your paint to get nicked.

And from the looks of things you COMPLETELY missed the point of the criticism of Liverpoodle. Let me quote myself in post #73 of this thread:

"The problem with that thread at the other place is people veered way off topic just to show off their non-vintage poser cars. The topic of the thread was, and still is, Vintage road race pics. There is nothing "vintage" about making a clone of a real race car. You can call it a "tribute" car, but that yellow car isn't even that. It has the wrong color paint, the wrong engine, and a ton of wrong parts installed on it. A tribute car is a car done as closely to the original as possible with today's parts availability. That yellow car doesn't come close to the original red one in that description. There are no pics of it actually road racing, so it can't even make that claim. Where I used to live we used a different description than poser for what was done to that yellow Vette. But if I used it I'd be banned. I'm on thin ice as it is over here, so don't want to bring any more heat on me."

It's not about whether any of us ever drove on a road race track. We never claimed to have done so. We also haven't claimed that our cars are Vintage road race Vettes When Liverpoodle posted in that CF thread, he hijacked the thread and made it all about his "replica" road racer. Quite simply, his posts and pictures didn't belong there.

 

[turtlevette]

Dep,

I don't follow CF that much anymore so i wasn't involved in that thread. To me it's a philosophy that can apply to all of us. I see a lot of people who have their cars in a million pieces or up on blocks that talk a lot of shit.

Maybe we all need to keep ourselves honest. As much as i talk about my track days, i ain't shit. As lowly as i am, there are guys that would get sick to their stomach beating on their cars they way i do. Its all relative.

There's only a few guys that hang around here that are true C3 bad asses and you and i ain't them. Kapish?

 

[JPhil]

There's only a few guys that hang around here that are true C3 bad asses and you and i ain't them. Kapish?

Well, you're not 'bad', anyway.......:harhar:

 

[DJ Dep]

Dep,

I don't follow CF that much anymore so i wasn't involved in that thread. To me it's a philosophy that can apply to all of us. I see a lot of people who have their cars in a million pieces or up on blocks that talk a lot of shit.

Maybe we all need to keep ourselves honest. As much as i talk about my track days, i ain't shit. As lowly as i am, there are guys that would get sick to their stomach beating on their cars they way i do. Its all relative.

There's only a few guys that hang around here that are true C3 bad asses and you and i ain't them. Kapish?

I never said I was god's gift to racers. And I don't hold anything against guys that have their cars in a million pieces either. There are many cars I've seen in pieces that I'd rather have in my garage, than some of the completed cars that people seem to drool over. Nobody's criticizing what guys DO to their cars, just what they claim the cars are

 

[turtlevette]

I autocrossed my car back in 1980. Does that make my car a Vintage racing C3?

I just looked at that thread. You seem pleased with some guy that had a few yellowed picts of his vette sitting on a runway or abandon road in a club type setting and pronounced his car a true vintage racing corvette. I don't know if holy water is involved or not.

I don't know. Where do you draw the line?

 

[DJ Dep]

I autocrossed my car back in 1980. Does that make my car a Vintage racing C3?

I just looked at that thread. You seem pleased with some guy that had a few yellowed picts of his vette sitting on a runway or abandon road in a club type setting and pronounced his car a true vintage corvette. I don't know if holy water is involved or not.

I don't know. Where do you draw the line?

Pictures of beat up raced cars at tracks are more beleiveable than some banana sitting in a guys driveway. Do YOU believe the JC Whitney Vette was ever raced? If so, I have some swampland I'd like to show you. :lol:

 

[turtlevette]

Do YOU believe the JC Whitney Vette was ever raced? If so, I have some swampland I'd like to show you. :lol:

No i don't. I posted twice in this thread asking him to post 1 on-track picture and he can't come up with one.

Maybe he did a parade lap.

 

[mrvette]

But you simply have to do 150+ mph with the top and windows down....

otherwise you all a bunch of wooses.....:trumpet::trumpet::harhar::devil::crutches::crutches::hi:

 

[saudivette]

Hey Wayne,when you get to bleeding those brakes and putting the wheel's back on,you better have some pic's, pic's of the assistant helping you :yahoo:
if she is not in there don't bother posting

J/K but the pics would be better with SWMBO in them :amused::beer:

You'll probably never believe it Kev, but I finally got the damn brakes bled today. I used a Motive pressure bleeder and before bleeding without the engine running, the pedal nearly went to the floor. After bleeding, the pedal's lucky if it moves even an inch. I can see myself with a cracked noggin the first time I drive this and introduce my foot to Mr. Hydroboost.

I got the exhaust hooked back up too and my bloody arms are killing me. I might put the wheels on tomorrow if I get the last bit of tidying up done and the valance re-fitted. I will, however, endeavour to take some pics so that at least it looks like Monster Lady's assisting me to re-fit the wheels :thumbs:

 

[kwplot34]

Hey Wayne,when you get to bleeding those brakes and putting the wheel's back on,you better have some pic's, pic's of the assistant helping you :yahoo:
if she is not in there don't bother posting

J/K but the pics would be better with SWMBO in them :amused::beer:

You'll probably never believe it Kev, but I finally got the damn brakes bled today. I used a Motive pressure bleeder and before bleeding without the engine running, the pedal nearly went to the floor. After bleeding, the pedal's lucky if it moves even an inch. I can see myself with a cracked noggin the first time I drive this and introduce my foot to Mr. Hydroboost.

I got the exhaust hooked back up too and my bloody arms are killing me. I might put the wheels on tomorrow if I get the last bit of tidying up done and the valance re-fitted. I will, however, endeavour to take some pics so that at least it looks like Monster Lady's assisting me to re-fit the wheels :thumbs:

Sounds like you are close to getting it on the road :bounce:
and we will require some pics of the little lady working on the car,or be prepared to suffer the consequences :crap:




Can't wait for the pics :drink: