Its weird how looking back at old pictures of your car make you realize how much you really enjoy it, and in my case how much I appreciate the styling of mine, and the memories in it that my dad and I created. Of course this picture also makes me wish that summer was here again, winter is just annoying at this time and point.
It doesn't really get any sadder then this, but then again, the footage is amazing to watch, even though a good driver went down that day. Art Arfons though was not driving that day! The driver was Gene Thomas, R.I.P.
This really requires the proper music for this rant, and any colour you like really helps me focus my emotions on this.
As of recently I keep seeing more people saying they have a few to many project cars, and such of that sort. Well honestly in my opinion any car you spend a lot of time working on starts to become fused with you, it becomes part of your soul. A car is never done, no matter what, no matter if the owner says its done, it will always be modified (restorations are a different story), but a modified car, will always be that way. It has soul, any true car has soul, and you can communication to it well driving it, and the more you drive it the more you get to know it. I'm that way with my 1963 Mercury Meteor which is named Mr.Venables, its a long story in regards to the car which I will explain later, but I have realized that when I am an old man, Ill still be modifying the car, its just what I do, and it just fits the car, its always changing like I am. Kinda a short rant, but I feel that all hot rodders agree on this one.
A while back I used to work for the facebook application vDream Racing, and on the app was the 1969 camaro rendering on the left. I didn't make it, but I had planned to go really into detail on making it better (i made the hood on it in about 15 minutes and it got in lol, it was just trying to match the car). Anyway, now that vDream is "closed" down, I just had to redo that 1969 Camaro. I felt so bad for the car in real life, compared to the game. For starters in regards to things wrong on the original render, its got no passenger side tire, its got 4 bucket seats, and the back two are higher then the front two, and its proportions are just way off. On the right is how far my redo of it is so far, and I am quite happy with it. Also the wheels on both cars are the same to show how things have changed so drastically.
Its weird to think that the whole pro street trend has started to die out. Sure Pro Touring is great, but Pro Street just has a whole different cool feel to it. People would build more dare to be different cars, and there wasnt a limit to how modified the car could be, and most of them were fast too. This Buick is a prime example of that, hopefully it will make a comeback in the near future.
There are such few cars as iconic in the world of drag racing as the Anglia. A handful at best when combined with a supercharged or injected power plant, but at the end of the day, an amazing car. Here's a few Anglia pictures to make the day just that much better!
Most people in my age group (myself sometimes included) enjoy the Toyota Supra. Its a great car for the price, and there is a lot of modification out there for it, but everyone overrates it. Now on the other side of the tracks there's this 1970s AMC Hornet, a car that isn't known for being the fastest thing around, although if you had a Hornet X back in the day you could do some damage. Well in this battle of epic proportions, it would seem like the Supra would have a clear win, and it would be over extremely fast, and it is in the first race when the Hornet is on motor only, but the second race, lets just say that this Supra owner went home with a whole different outlook on cars built by AMC. I can only imagine if the Hornet had been a Pacer at how bad the Supra owner would feel for his loss.
