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Aja It wasn't their best selling album by accident. The 40 year anniversary of Aja is coming up soon.

I thought the same thing. It is WV after all. Maybe a car in the living room is more common than you think. A Cadillac at that. Look at the Craigslist ad

I love a good dare. I had no idea of the sountrack of this movie. I am going to buy it.

I bet. They were just regular vehicles with no redundant controls for the instructor? Ours did not have way for the instructor to alter the path or speed or braking of the vehicle. He was at our mercy.

I am surprised the cars were mid size and smaller 2 doors (at least the Grand Prix and Firebirds). I learned in a 1977 Delta 88 4 door with 3 or 4 kids and the instructor. It just had the orange "Drivers Education" sign on the vertical surface of the trunk lid. One cool thing we did have at our High School were the simulators that you drove to a movie with.

That is a great story, thanks for sharing such a character building moment. The drivers Ed cars around here now have so many decals and advertising on them they look like NASCAR.

I will have the one on the right plz

Glad to see you can still get around on foot. I saw the pic of your place with water just up to the curb. I hope that is as high as it gets and this storm gets the heck outta there very soon. I have been thinking about you and now that I know more about where you are located I can rest a bit more assured but I know its not over yet.

Tigerman good to see you here in the daytime. That would be the correct answer if your definition of most powerful is horsepower, if it is torque then the answer is different. I do think it is funny when you still run across someone who thinks the 455 Buick, Olds and Pontiac is the same engine.

Scat Pack Challenger is a 2 door. Challengers have every power train combo of a Charger plus the added bonus of a stick.

I was at the Mopar Nats in Columbus, OH 2 weeks ago, 84 degrees and 89% humidity. Bone stock Hellcats on drag radials were running 11.2 With Mods 10.8 with the fastest kitty at 10.2. Scat packs were in the 12.8 to 13.2 range on street tires. Drag Radials 12.2 to 12.4 range.

That is a very good question. My Buick is as follows. 1970 Buick 455 @.030 for 462 cubes. Forged pistons with valve reliefs. Cam is a T/A Performance .572" lift 107 degree seperation and a very noticeable idle Heads are aluminum T/A Performance Stage 1SE with mild porting. Intake is a aluminum T/A Performance single plane port matched to the heads Carb is a Holley 850 double pumper Mickey Thompson equal length headers and full 3" mandrel bent exhaust with flowmasters. Recurved HEI and stock stage 1 mechanical fuel pump Muncie M20 4 speed with a 2.52 first gear and a 3.42 rear gear and 215/60-15 BFG Drag Radials Pump gas 93 octane and very street able with the rear gear. My best is 12.24 @116MPH with a terrible 2.0 sixty foot time in a nasty Density of Air of 2200ft. Good ole Indiana summer heat and humidity. The car still has stock suspension with old bushings and has did a best of 1.8 sixty foot when the drag radials were new (2003) and it was an auto transmission The car is an honest 11.8x ET as verified by the MPH it if would launch. My Scat pack has never been down the strip nor have I played with the onboard timers so I will use results from a challenger forum I hang out at. Stock magazine times put a auto trans at 12.6@114MPH (car and Driver corrected to altitude), the stick is .2 slower. There is a forum member that ran Bone stock on street tires, it ran mid/high 12's. On 20" tall drag radials it did get it down to 11.77-11.80 on the stock tune in -500ft DA (45 degree temp). That same Scat pack has now gone 11.67 at 115.73 mph w/ 1.62 60ft time In this configuration Mods: - Racestars (17x9.5 rear + 17x4.5 front) - M&H front skinnies - M/T ET Street R drag radials - hellcat airbox w/ filter removed - BT catch can - Hemifever custom tune/PCM swap - 96 octane fuel (1/4 tank BP 93 + 1.5 gallon VP MS109 race fuel) - Tazer line lock w/ trans in Track Mode As you notice his MPH stays around 114 to 115MPH but lowering the sixty foot time is huge in drag racing. Rule of thumb is for every tenth you can decrease the sixty foot equals 1.5 to 2 tenths at the big end on the Elapsed time. So in theory if i could back to my old 1.8 sixty foot time my ET would be 11.94-12.02 or If I could get to his 1.6 sixty foot I would be at 11.54-11.715 ET has so many variables in the launch that MPH is a better factor of how much horsepower a car has and from a roll as they both sit I think my Scat would be about two car lengtsh behind. I have read a couple articles that indicate from dyno pulls factoring in drive line loss that the 485HP of the Scat Pack may be a bit underrated. Now your butt dyno would be fooled because the Gran Sport is much louder at WOT, the nose raises up a bit like a speed boat so riding in them back to back you would think the Gran Sport is a lot faster. The Scat Pack is just sneaky fast the way it goes about its business. I built the Buick 11 years ago to be a pump gas street/strip car that I could drive anywhere. I have driven it to an event 4 hours away, raced it all day and drove it home. I had the engine parts machined to my specs and I assembled it back in 2006. I have owned the Gran Sport for 22 years now. This all goes to show you how much the modern performance car has come. I tell everyone if you have an opportunity do not miss out on this era of performance cars because they are leaps and bounds above the 1960's. As a final note the wheels up Blue Jason Line GS that kind of got this conversation going ran 10.37 as a NHRA C/SA. That is with iron heads and iron intake and a quadarjet. Albeit with 14:1 compression, race fuel and built and tuned by pros.

I will be more than happy to take you for a spirited ride in a 455 Stage 1 car with drag radials on.

Love it...Heck Yea I almost said even though in a Ford. But. I respect the incredible accomplishment from a Hoosier over the fact

There was this guy from Whiteland, IN who used to race Pro Stock Bob Glidden He won 85 NHRA National Events. Ten Pro Stock championships including five in a row beginning in 1985. Nine straight NHRA national races in 1979 and was the No. 1 qualifier 23 times in a row, including the entire 1987 season. At one point, he won 50 eliminations rounds in a row. And is one of the nicest guys I have ever met.

I remember 7000 then 8000 and I have heard 10,000HP I don't think they have made that big of advances as marketing has. I stick with 8

The drive-in is long gone but you can still camp across the street like the good ole days. C'mon over. Jason Line is my ultra fav. He is a fellow Buick racer who still campaigns his C/SA 1970 Buick Gran Sport 455 Stage 1. He brought it to Indy last year and pulled double duty with his Pro Stock car. Hoping to talk with him at this years events. I will have 3 Buick freaks in tow. http://www.thedrive.com/start-finish/9220/pro-drag-racer-jason-line-wont-let-go-of-his-1970-buick

It is Friday in Indy...next Friday the US Nats will be in full swing....8000HP nitro beast...I will be at IRP on Sat. Pro Stock is my fav category....500 cubes on gasoline...no more dual quads but pullin the levers on the Lenco and the closet pro racing. Indy Stud Drew Skillman is tearing up Pro Stock as of late to boot.

That is an awesome machine. The VFR800 made it to my short list of two for my last purchase. The FJR1300 got the nod

I was away from all media when the USS Indianapolis was found so I did not see any of the reports. These brave survivors return to Indianapolis every year. Finally some closure to the men and families.

I am on the north side of I-465 at 96th Street and Commerce Drive.

Count me in as well, however I can be of assistance. My desk at work is 2100 feet from the Indy HQ.

They are sneaky that way. I would try and do both considering the proximity of Woodward and Flint.

Wet asphalt, drag radials and big HP requires common sense and a light foot.

I will keep next year on my calendar for Woodward especially since we lost 2 national and 1 regional Buick events over the last 3 years I need to add some more automotive outlets to my schedule. I just do not get my hot rods out enough like I used to. I did go to the Mopar Nats at National Trail last Friday. 2400 cars, it is a nice event.