Phun kin A !! That's exactly what we're gunna do!! LOL

"hotley and motley" this weekend!! It's 106* in my little shed trackside today -- and I have a radiator to replace - valves to adjust - and maybe even swap out the Wilwood Master Cylinder Charley bought me. I have a "redneck A/C" idea I'm going to try tomorrow !! Thank god we have a WallySchmart practically next door!! I figure a few blocks of ice stacked behind the 36" shop fan oughter be more better than nuttin' honey!!! LOL

Yeah! If you'd have kept it -- it wouldn't have lit the wall up from 9 down to 10 at Sonoma last year!!! Tore the front end off the poor thing.... He wasn't hurt thank god!! He was following me thru there and I think he said he dropped a wheel off in the dirt.... then corrected and then..... well.... it didn't work out. Except that the car is way better now with a new frontend and motor and all that stuff. Kevin Sittner did a great job on it!

here i will save you the brain power

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=...01770371733231

Was wondering how he and the car were doing.

Put on your cool suit and rig up a fancy IV style cart you can drag around the shop....The heat is no joke, stay hydrated my friend!

So now that the yellow car is coming apart...when does the trans go for sale =)

Good luck on the new build! Was hoping to make Sonoma this weekend but new motor isn't done yet.

Do you suspect you'll run t-hill later this year?

You know you're important when your shop of choice has to run a marketing campaign to find a guy (or girl) to "fix" your car. Is this like back in the old days of coach building when they'd have to send people (experts) to and from Europe, since the bodies and chassis so frequently came from different continents?

Then again, the Stagnaro Mustang has been around for decades . . .

LOL no kidding hey. Actually we have been looking for a long time for the right guy. and have always advertised for hot Rod/ Muscle car builder and figured lets switch gears and see what happens. i have guys here capable of the work that will be getting done. just need more of them.

I'm going to have an entire car of cool parts going to new homes --- Triple JRi's -- all the front suspension that is super Sutton Sauce - Floater rearend - Jerico - great motor - with $5,000 custom built headers.... 2 sets of Formula 43 wheels.... Well -- you get the idea. Some parts are already spoken for.




I'm running Thunderhill with NASA next week --- so Sonoma Mini Nats this weekend -- and then NASA the following weekend. Then October with Shelby Club at Thunderhill. Then the car goes to SpeedTech

I make a little under a million bucks a year doing nothing..... what's it pay to come out of retirement??



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Chet is doing great --- he ran the car after Kevin Sittner put it all back together.... it works FAR better now with all new suspension and a better motor etc.

Pete's doing great on his clinical trial with chemo --- and he'll be at Sonoma

Big Mike is signed up for Sonoma as well --- he wasn't feeling real well the last time we ran Thunderhill - so didn't run. But came up to visit.

Charley will be at Hot August Nights I think.

I've spent two 12 hours days -- in 104* weather -- in a West facing shop space.... grinding on all the little things it takes to make a track car reliable.... For those that haven't owned one --- it takes a lot of work to keep them in tip top condition and safe!

I must have drank two gallons of water today -- and peed ONCE..... That's a lot of sweating for the uniformed. When I was doing pyro shows -- I'd drink all day -- and never pee. The key -- in heat -- is when you STOP sweating -- you haven't drank enough water. We always watched each other (two pyros on a barge) to make sure you were sweating.

Let me know if those JRI's are not spoken for... ;)

NOT MUCH!!! comparatively lol

Apparently I'm in the wrong business. Hahaha!!!

So am I apparently since I haven't worked for almost 30 years now.....

We'll have to change the title to this disaster now ---- The current status has changed yet again.

Not cutting up ANYTHING..... We're starting from scratch -- building a Ron Sutton Track Warrior ---- complete car per his catalog.... and using a 1970 Mustang body that is being widened 6".

I just couldn't bring myself to cutting up such a great car that already exists. Old Yeller is just too sweet of a track car to do that to. So we'll just start new.

DONE.

'bout time you came to your senses... :lostmarbles:

There's a lot of sighs of relief going on right now.
I guess you had too much fun this weekend. Glad to hear this iconic car lives to spin out another day:lol:

Sure:tv_happy:

Very cool to hear your keeping your mustang as is. That's exactly what I was thinking when I first asked you "why not start from scratch". Your mustang just seemed to nice. Very cool build to in your future for sure.

I wanna know more about this spinout.

More like an extreme circular drift...the recovery was text book Dirt Fish!

https://s20.postimg.org/70jr0gfq5/IMG_7185.jpg

Has it been that long??? We need to talk, I AM in the wrong business!!!


For now... :stirthepot: :confused18: :lostmarbles: :lmao:

The car is just too good. And in our effort to build a 1.40 car, so I can run a 1.54 (always just a little faster than "The Rob" in AO).... We'd need to just completely cut the car so much it would be a lot of labor "wasted". These cars weren't very wide to begin with. The 69 and 70 bodies are wider to start with and a glass body is good enough for me. I'm about the performance vs the show quality track car. I'll let Mario (Doom) stress over perfect black paint. When you see the beating these cars take on track -- it's just awful. A glass car -- wrap it -- DONE.

I have NEVER YET made it thru a track weekend without a spin. I don't go off track -- and I don't wreck -- but I always manage a spin. I'm certain that when the club sees me sign up -- they all shudder and groan.

At the driver meeting this year -- they said "WE ARE NOT RACING"..... I was in the back and raised my hand and said "I AM"..... LOL

Anyone that has never spun a car hasn't tried to actually go fast. I push the car and myself to the max every lap.

I will say that almost all the wrecks were in Turn 7 this weekend -- and I've never seen so many bad wrecks (single car wrecks). T7 was just sketchy this weekend for some reason. That doesn't stop me from trying harder and harder to find the fastest way around it (and every other corner). Road racing for me is not a drag race from corner to corner. I want to carry as much speed as I possibly can thru the turn so I can exit faster. Frankly -- we aren't that good. I still say all the time - Danny Popp could beat me in a V6 rental car.

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AGAIN the last to know!!

Well -- it happens when you over rotate the rear of the car and can't catch it. This particular time I was in the roll thru and got a little hard a lot too early into the go pedal and was in second gear.... I wanted to really spank the guy behind me (Rob) down thru 8 to 9... but I swear he had a James Bond like cable hooked to my bumper. I didn't stall so I jammed 1st gear and lit em up like a NASCAR winners burnout (not nearly as controlled or as cool) and off I went like it never even happened. Then the black flag was being pointed at me and I had to go talk to Ray Banks.... Who laughed at me.

The car was loose all weekend. We lowered the track bar on both sides (My love goes out to Rich Burmea for wrenching) -- and that made the car "free" vs loose.... but T7 was just a handful for everyone this weekend for whatever reason. Rob was faster in the corners than me -- but thank god I have the HP to just keep him back there. Well -- unless you spin out.

You need to keep up son!! A weekend of racin' can change EVERYTHING.... LOL


Sutton is the "builder" - I just tell him what I want in a big broad brushstroke -- from there it's all him. I'm just middle management on a need to know basis (need to know how much and where to send it! LOL)

Well then that would make me lower management so to speak just waitin for the orders to filter through the grey matter!!

by the way no parts have showed up yet so we are already behind schedule :mock: :lmao:

Glad to hear you're keeping Ol Yeller intact Greg. I know you said you weren't doing a build thread but please throw up some pics of the 70 once it gets going.

WHY would you do a 70 when you could do THIS


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...5334528&type=3

That's great Greg you can still have fun while your waiting on the 70, oh and practice those spin out things :headspin:

race on sunday, sell on monday as they say!

"and using a 1970 Mustang body that is being widened 6"

That should be fun getting it in the trailer.:headspin:

Just widen the trailer 6", sorted. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

The key was for Sutton and I to have a couple weekends to work out the details. I think we've got the basis for some kinda sorta maybe an idea.... :BlahBlah: :BlahBlah: :wacko: :lol: :lol: :lol:

And I'll get to buy it for 40K when he gets bored.

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