I totally agree. The Duster would be a "WEEKEND WARRIOR" car around town.
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-----Original Message-----
From: jon@dakota-truck.net [mailto:jon@dakota-truck.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:17 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Fastest Street Car in America
"scsilverdak" <scsilverdak@hotmail.com> wrote:
: I've been to a couple of these races including races at NORWALK RACEWAY,
and
: from my experience
: these cars are really full-on race cars with license plates,working
: lights,horn,and regular compliment of required street equipment, and VERY
: loosely fit the description of a street car.................BUT I would
not
: say it's car I'd drive to a corner store or to work!
: The amount of power and driveline modifications, along with the suspension
: set-up that's needed to run a pass in the range of 10 seconds or faster is
: not up to the pounding of drive down a regular street or avenue.
: I know at least 2 guy's that drag race on a regular basis, both have cars
: running faster than 10 seconds
: and they'll be the first to agree. any car that run's faster than 10's is
: not a street driveable for more than a mile or 2 before things like
aluminum
: rods,and cooling systems begin to stage a revolt!
I agree - most of these cars are barely disguised race cars. That's
what was so neat about the Duster I mentioned. Except for a few pieces,
its all steel, its not a tube chassis or anything like that, it has
stock frame rails, torsion bars, A arms, etc. Except for the seats and
roll cage, its a bone stock interior. Very minimal modifications. The
idea was to keep it as close to stock as possible.
Granted, you won't be taking any road trips in it (when's the last
time you saw a gas station with an alcohol pump?) ;-) but I thought it
was quite refreshing how stock they kept it. Especially when you
consider that its blowing away the purpose built race cars.
---Jon-
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