original owner made it to MCACN!

[PeteLeathersac]

THE Coolest!!!

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~ Pete

[Atuckman]

fantastic car and history

[black69]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Atuckman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">fantastic car and history </div></div>

thanks! I do think the car and the original owner stories need to be in camaro performer..or something like that.

here is what I learned at MCACN hanging out with the owner:

1. Professionally he raced against AJ foyt and waltrip brothers. He beat one of the waltrips with his inferior machine.
2. He is into small fast planes now, still holds some unbroken salom speed records he set in 1992
3. he got out of stock car racing because back then there was no money in like there is now. Plus, he was running a $3800
engine against a <span style="font-weight: bold">$15K </span>motor in a foyt/waltrip car. Its hard being on the road raising a family (and bulldozing roads in wisconsin paid better than racing, with overtime)
4. he hit a wall straight on, splattered his stock car bad. ripped out his liver, back to racing in a few months. this was last time his daughter was allowed to watch one of his races.
5. he got into motorcycles, he was known for riding up and down wisconsin roads standing on the seat, no hands. best distance was 13 miles between towns.
6. he never lost a road race with the camaro (various counties west of madison wisconsin). Its been airborn many many times.
7. he traded in a mint red fuel injected 63 vette convert on the camaro. The camaro was very expensive, and he only got $1600 for the vette at Hult/thorsat. He said the dealers grandson got the vette after trade and really made him mad after they whittled him down.
8. Said to NOT start the MCACN show on the same weekend hunting season starts in wisconsin!
9. he not only had the very first L88 over the counter engine sold in wisconsin (from hult in Madison), he had other L88s engines in his cars. They floated the valves in the first L88, and it recovered fine with fixes. At the end of his racing days, they would bore out new 454 blocks .125 and run 427 cranks (for the rpm). They never ran a 454 crank on the track as they could not get the rpms out of it.



Was a great day, and got quality time with a cool owner. If only more of us had those experiences, living on the edge. Like I said, the MCACN show got him out (even during the start of hunting season). An he did spend hrs there walking around enjoying himself.