What stole your attention from HiFi?

A 30 ft Owens day cruiser. Beautiful old mahogany wood boat. Restored it from top to bottom. Great adventure. So glad when I finally sold it! I was so tired of driving to the marina a couple of times a month in the winter to check it out, clean it up, and run the motors and electronic's, to keep it functioning, and to make sure it hadn't sunk in my absense. In the final analysis it was easier to obsess over something 50 miles closer. :-)

Slappy, it's appropriate that you would have 'support the troops' emblazoned on the bumber of your car - they're out there to ensure you continue to have access to a cheap supply of non-renewable fossil fuels to feed your car.

Lugnut, you state:

My Nova ran mid tens at 5500 feet corrected elevation. Small block, one carb, pump gas, through the mufflers on street tires. Oh yeah, a stick too. No nitrous or forced air induction. I did it the hard way.

What engine, and what did you do to it? You're talking a low 14's quarter, at best.

Musta been one helluva rear end on that Nova too.

fat parrot
dont be so sure. being a mopar man myself I cant publically support any chevy any where any time... but off the record its very possible. For example my car runs an 11.6 1/4 it is a 3300 pound essentially stock body and interior full seats glass heater and all. 360 small block cast iron mildly ported heads, hydralic lifters 520 lift cam, single plane manifold 750 holley homemade headers three inch exhaust including mufflers with street legal tires and an automatic.
If I were to put the car on a diet and shed some weight put a steep roller cam in there up the converter stall speed , throw some alumminum fully ported heads . I wouldnt want to drive it to the track anymore and I would likely have to throw more money in its direction on a regular basis- meaning broken parts- but I dont doubt I could be in the high 10's