Well, I just got poked in the heart...

Somewhere out there one of my past projects just showed up......in a junkyard.



One of my friends just sent these pictures to me at 3pm today. Windows down, rearend missing, this was one of the first cars that I created the Cyclone namesake and decal..A 5.0/C-4/8.8 car, with a sportsman fogger.....I sold this car to a kid running, and he trashed it. I bought it back and put it rback together, and got it running 7.0. 1/8th miles, and sold it to a guy that was gonna bracket race it...that was over 20 years ago.

Now here it is,...sitting in some yard with the same front wheels I put on it way back then...you can see me all over this thing.
I gonnpuke..

Nahhh....that car is a mess. I'm not the type to have multiple car projects going on at the same time. I'm guessing that the back glass is gone, and maybe the trunk deck as well...there's gotta be a reason that they drug that topper over the rear of the car.
There's no title for this car. I know, because the kid I bought it back from never got it back to me. The guy that I sold it to didn't care, because he planned to drag race it anyways...( I think he planned to convert the engine over to SBC IIRC).

This car was the first car I spent a decent amount of money on building it...I think I had over 10k in the car back in 97..
I hated the engine choice, I used a World SR cast iron head, a flat tappet cam, and Keith Black hypereutectic pistons. The ring end gap was so huge the car spewed oil out of the valve covers after every 1/8 mi pass
When I sold it the first time, the kids dad wanted me to remove the fogger, because he was concerned that his kid would kill himself in the car with a working 250 shot of nitrous. He also wanted a rear seat. This car had pretty big mini tubs, a 4:30 gear,
10" slicks, And boxed stock rear control arms with some cheap assed rear coil assisted shock thingy from Competition Engineering.

To sell it, I had to hack up the mini-tubs to get the seat to fit, and the holes inside got filled in with fiberglass. I put some 275x15 street rubber on it, and off it went. The kid added a sniper nitrous kit back on, and promptly blew the engine right the fck up. It sat for quite awhile before I bought it back, and I threw some wore out 5.0 in it, and put the fogger back on. It ran 7.0 but.....
( Have I ever mentioned that I hate bracket racing?....) it didn't take a minute and I was done with that car..I sold it again.

I don't want it back,...it's like seeing some old girlfriend though.

The hood is terrible. An oversized thunderbolt teardrop, that was so damn big, that after all of the steel was cut away after bonding the thing on, there was no steel left to keep any integrity.

All of the money spent on this car was paint and body. Dupont Chromabase, Guards Blue, Wimbledon White. The body guy fckd me...took my paint and used it on other cars, and what was left when paint time came barely covered the sheetmetal. A buddy deal gone way bad...I wired his car, welded in his cage, traded some stuff,...and I got what's left