eric_marsh
Member
Hi folks,
I'm in my mid 50s and have been into hot cars and more specifically hot motorcycles since the early 1970s. Earlier this year I started building a front engine dragster but with the economic downturn money has been tight and progress has been very slow.
On the same trip when I picked up the dragster chassis I also took the Frank Hawley Drag Racing school and got my super comp dragster driver's license. I've been thinking about that experience a lot and after many years of drag racing motorcycles I finally had to conclude that driving the car was, well, it lacked excitement.
This has really started me thinking about about whether I want to spend a lot of time and money building a car that I won't be taking out that often and then only for a few seconds at a time.
I really enjoy building vehicles though. There are some guys at a near by airport who are working on a home build aircraft and I always thought that would be kind of cool.
I guess that when I started really looking at how much it will cost to build a junior fueler I realized that I could probably build or buy an aircraft for the same money and if building a race car is cool, building an airplane would probably be twice as cool!
Obviously I would have to learn to fly but that sounds like a lot of fun in it's own right. It might help me overcome my fear of heights too.
Anyhow, with all of that said I found this web site and will do some reading and see what I can learn. If I decide to take a shot at this it's obviously not going to happen overnight, but that's OK - I've learned the value of patience when working on a project.
Anyone want to buy or trade for a fresh 200" long front engine dragster chassis?
ciao,
Eric
I'm in my mid 50s and have been into hot cars and more specifically hot motorcycles since the early 1970s. Earlier this year I started building a front engine dragster but with the economic downturn money has been tight and progress has been very slow.
On the same trip when I picked up the dragster chassis I also took the Frank Hawley Drag Racing school and got my super comp dragster driver's license. I've been thinking about that experience a lot and after many years of drag racing motorcycles I finally had to conclude that driving the car was, well, it lacked excitement.
This has really started me thinking about about whether I want to spend a lot of time and money building a car that I won't be taking out that often and then only for a few seconds at a time.
I really enjoy building vehicles though. There are some guys at a near by airport who are working on a home build aircraft and I always thought that would be kind of cool.
I guess that when I started really looking at how much it will cost to build a junior fueler I realized that I could probably build or buy an aircraft for the same money and if building a race car is cool, building an airplane would probably be twice as cool!
Obviously I would have to learn to fly but that sounds like a lot of fun in it's own right. It might help me overcome my fear of heights too.
Anyhow, with all of that said I found this web site and will do some reading and see what I can learn. If I decide to take a shot at this it's obviously not going to happen overnight, but that's OK - I've learned the value of patience when working on a project.
Anyone want to buy or trade for a fresh 200" long front engine dragster chassis?
ciao,
Eric