What the hell??

When you de-smog those old cars and apply some modern suspension bits.....yeah.

Every time it came up on me I thought it was the Rambler and thought "Sheeeeet" until it went past.

In the interests of full disclosure I was passed by the Rambler a couple of times too ...

It's been several years since I ran at ECR but there was a Fairmont with an DOHC? V8 that was fast and sounded cool as hell.  Wondering if it's that car.

That is the one!!!!

That Brown car is always fast.  Should have seen his full size station wagon.  It was fast, too.

I feel much better now knowing that I got passed by a Mustang with more than twice my horsepower (135 vs 280?)

Now my biggest annoyment is being passed by FWD cars, that I can tell my wife.
(#211, 91 Civic. Seems like a great car and/or drivers).

That I know and I am totally fine with that as well

Driving the living crap out of those FWD econoboxes looks like fun, 1 wheel in the air and smoking tires.
I am surprised they don't get sea sick of all that body roll.

#13 was the faux-Rambler

When I drove the Black Metal V8olvo at Altamont, I kept getting passed in most humiliating fashion by a hooptie '66 Mustang. Having owned plenty of Fords from that era, I knew they handled like crap, so I figured I must have been going much too slowly and my team was at that moment tearing out their hair in rage over my un-dominating driving (we had no radios, so I could not consult with them). So, I though that fateful thought (the one that got Chief Perp Jay Lamm in trouble at a press launch): "If he can go that fast, I can go that fast!" and stepped it up. Of course, I spun out in dramatic fashion about 30 seconds later. Next stop, penalty box!

Turns out that (A) the Mustang had a pretty decent suspension setup, (B) the Mustang's driver was really good, and (C) my team had been happy with my good-enough lap times and then became very unhappy with my inexplicable madness and resulting decision to try to catch a much quicker driver. We ended up finishing 15th out of 90 or so, but it would have been more like 10th if not for my assumptions about what cars should and should not be able to do (of course, having radios would have prevented this mishap, another important lesson).

In our first race, we would get regularly lapped in our tbird by a dodge minivan. The team had setup that vehicle really well and it was quite light (much lighter than our tbird) but it still kind of stung.

I view it like college: I was very sad the first time I received a C but then, after a few more, you get used to the idea

Swapping in the DOHC 4.6L (I'm guessing Mark VIII donor) seems like a glorious way to add complication to your car.
-g

Pretty sure I saw him getting towed off track late in the day on Sunday too.

I'm just trying to make him feel better and he didn't like being passed by a fairmont, think he would feel better if we refer to it as a Zephyr?