Hey Mad Dog, saw your SBD car in Traditioal Rod and Culture, lots of pictures of your buddies too. (kind of looks like the beginning of the end, or the start of something big, it is hard to say)
There is now a chapter in Austrailia and somewhere in Oklahoma (I think).
Gonna be in Hotrod Mag in the Jan issue.
If it starts to self destruct the word is that we will just go further underground.
I posted that I was quitting and selling my car. I did sell the car for a healthy chunk of change. The SFVISBF informed me that I couldnt quit.
Its like the mob, and that I'm in for life.
So I caved in and have built another car relizing that this is the most fun Ive had since I stopped flying my ultralite airplane. (I watched 2 buddies die in just one year so I quit flying and sold my plane).
The new car is a junior dragster with the cage modified to accomadate an adult almost laying out flat. Moved the roll cage back and down. Split the live rear axle and added a 2nd disc brake. A little cardboard, masking tape, fiberglass cloth, some resin and bondo and its the most aerodynamic and safe, I might add, car to roll with the SFVISBF. The longest by a long shot measuring nose to tail 154".
Yes, I'm in for life.
Videos located on Youtube - search for SFVISB - The latest one is one of my favorites.
At the last race I had come down to the first stopsign after unloading a friends car to watch the race. I am looking up the hill waiting for the cars to come around the corner and expecting speeds of 60 mph+ as they run the stopsign where I am standing. To my suprise a cop cruzes by going up wondering what all thes people are doing on the sides of the street. He dissapears around the corner and I wait.... about 90 sec later he comes flying back around the corner coming down the hill with 34 cars about 200' behind him. The cop was doing over 60 mph when he ran the stop sign trying to out run all these cars. He pulled of on a side street about a half mile later and watched the next 2 races.
Attached is a pic of the cop running from the cars and my new car.
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