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Dan Stoner from Garage Magazine sent me over to check this place out. Here goes... Aside from the usual addictions gearheads have, I'm also afflicted with "impossibillyum projectocrisis igmOraimness". I've heard it's not really that rare of a disease, but I haven't met anyone who has it other than me - yet.
I'm hoping some folks on here also (suffer?) from it, so I can experience that elusive "interweb group hug" thing my sensitive friends talk about. I first contracted the disease in 1970 when I touched a Mongoo$e Hot Wheel OUT OF IT'S PACKAGE at the local Woolco. This lead to a fascination with drag racing, but more specifically the already nearly extinct front engine dragster. By 1972 I realized actually owning, or even SEEING one in real life was a silly dream. From that point on, I refused to even look at them and my symptoms subsided. The sickness laid dormant for 28 years.
In 1999 I went on the internet and found www.wediditforlove.com, now I'm nearly $250,000 in the hole with the only pair of NHRA legal mid-sixties style tire smokers on the planet. Yes, I said tire smokers - my rails are engineered to run like they used to...Push start, turn 'em around, line 'em up and HIT IT. HARD. 165' wb, 2,500+ h.p. nitro Donovan hemis, locked up pedal clutches, direct drive, no reverser etc etc. I call 'em "Super '65s". What do they call me? I'd rather not say.
What I'm doing is frankly, impossible. Not only are these cars expensive as !@#$ and wooly as all get out, but the fastest I've ever gone in the quarter mile is 12.60 (I don't really even count that because the car was an automatic.) To add to all this the entire project is actually a multi-media art piece involving everything you can think of. It's huge. It's superbad. It's !@#$ing NUTS.
There are 10 million details but that's the rough outlay. I've got one of the rails ready to run and I'm within $20k of making the 6 passes to get my license with it. I'm a one man shop designing, fabricating, painting and assembling motorcycles and hot rods, plus I do a little comic art and writing. Go to www.condercustom.com if you get bored, and find Armageddon top Fuel to read about the project. I humbly and with great humility thank you for your time. - Pray to the Gods of Speed for me boys....I'm gonna need it.
I'm hoping some folks on here also (suffer?) from it, so I can experience that elusive "interweb group hug" thing my sensitive friends talk about. I first contracted the disease in 1970 when I touched a Mongoo$e Hot Wheel OUT OF IT'S PACKAGE at the local Woolco. This lead to a fascination with drag racing, but more specifically the already nearly extinct front engine dragster. By 1972 I realized actually owning, or even SEEING one in real life was a silly dream. From that point on, I refused to even look at them and my symptoms subsided. The sickness laid dormant for 28 years.
In 1999 I went on the internet and found www.wediditforlove.com, now I'm nearly $250,000 in the hole with the only pair of NHRA legal mid-sixties style tire smokers on the planet. Yes, I said tire smokers - my rails are engineered to run like they used to...Push start, turn 'em around, line 'em up and HIT IT. HARD. 165' wb, 2,500+ h.p. nitro Donovan hemis, locked up pedal clutches, direct drive, no reverser etc etc. I call 'em "Super '65s". What do they call me? I'd rather not say.
What I'm doing is frankly, impossible. Not only are these cars expensive as !@#$ and wooly as all get out, but the fastest I've ever gone in the quarter mile is 12.60 (I don't really even count that because the car was an automatic.) To add to all this the entire project is actually a multi-media art piece involving everything you can think of. It's huge. It's superbad. It's !@#$ing NUTS.
There are 10 million details but that's the rough outlay. I've got one of the rails ready to run and I'm within $20k of making the 6 passes to get my license with it. I'm a one man shop designing, fabricating, painting and assembling motorcycles and hot rods, plus I do a little comic art and writing. Go to www.condercustom.com if you get bored, and find Armageddon top Fuel to read about the project. I humbly and with great humility thank you for your time. - Pray to the Gods of Speed for me boys....I'm gonna need it.
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