[Jeff Higgins]

Put it this way, if you ever have the opportunity to ride in an honest-to-god 9 second car, do it. It will change your life.

I was running a '69 Dodge Super Bee in bracket racing in the late '70's to early '80's with a pretty hot 383 I had built (my very first motor build) that ran mid 11's at about 112 mph. I was running with a couple of brothers, one of which had a '68 Road Runner (also with a 383, but dead stock) and the other had a '68 Charger with a 440 that he had converted to the later Six Pack (three two barrels). We all helped their dad build his car, a '70 Road Runner. A Hemi Road Runner. He did a lot of motor work on that car (to the tune of $8,000 1980 dollars), put a pair of glass front fenders, doors, and a glass hood and trunk lid on it. Interior was gutted and caged, fenders tubbed and rear end narrowed, 4.88 gears in the Dana 60. Full manual valve body in the 727 TorqueFlight, along with a 9" torque converter - you could launch the thing at 5,000 rpm.

He let us kids drive it quite a bit. It ran 9.9's in the mid 130 mph range once you learned to drive it. Very, very addicting. I can see getting back into it someday. This stuff is actually pretty cheap, too, compared to what we are doing. You can buy 500 inch crate motors all day long for well under ten grand, complete, induction to exhaust... tempting...