Mike's stalking me continually bitching about Falcons...and you're looking over my shoulder. I was just looking at one on FB for $500! A 2 door 80's Escort tips in about 2200lbs. Still leaning towards the Falcon. But who knows. I'm going to Heber Springs this weekend to help my brother with the weekend getaway mobile home he bought to store his boat at. Then the next 2 weekends I'll be on anniversary vacay. So I'll keep adding potentials to my faves on FB and see what's available in 3 weeks.
To be clear on my position here, It’s your money, it’s your time, and you're the only one that matters in the end here.
Whatever car you choose, is gonna be all you, and my .02 will be the equivalent to the noise coming out of my dogs ass when he sleeps.
However,....
When you make an open ended statement on a public forum: i.e. I’m thinking about selling the perfect drag race platform,
That the engine of choice just happens to sit on FACTORY mounts,
That has a massive aftermarket to source every single chassis/safety/steering/
suspension/weight reduction/exhaust mod Ill ever need,
That you couldn’t get motivated to work on, because it’s hot as fck.
And now instead plan getting something that’ll require tons of mods to the car just to get it safe and roadworthy, much less capable of putting a 9 second 1/4 mile pass on the ground..
That offers none of the above, and will require that every single thing you do to it be either custom, or from a completely different car, and That the few aftermarket parts that are offered for it are still intended for a street car, and NOT an 8 second drag car..not to mention the fact that it looks like a Cuban Military staff car...
That you’ll have to do yourself,.... in the garage,..that’ll still be hot as fck...
it begs for an intervention.
Theres a guy we all know that just went through almost a year of frustration trying to make something fit that wasn’t supposed to fit. Despite advice to the contrary, he had to do the sht his way...and bumped his head.
And stuff had to be made, stuff had to be adapted, stuff leaked, and got welded, stuff still leaked, and got welded some more.
The brake booster wouldn’t clear, the steering had to be replaced..
Then, despite advice to the contrary, he adapted this, and adapted that, and tried to make something else fit that wasn’t supposed to...and still....he bumped his head.
And Finally,...after a whole freakin year of head bumps,..the thing runs. and even at that...there’s still the possibility that there’s more head bumpin in the future.
Why do you insist on bumping your head?