mike343sharpstk
04-16-2010, 09:29 PM
Greeting all!
I found this site while looking for information on the Street car challenge at Road America in a few weeks. Fortunately for me I live near RA and will be there checking this out as I would like to participate in such an event in the future. In a previous life I road raced motorcycles so I have been bitten by the road racing bug years ago. This street car challenge is very cool to me as it combines two of my favorite things, road racing and good ‘ol V8 muscle.
There is some amazing hardware on the site and I hope to learn from some of you on this site, other sites are great but they seem to either focus on drag racing or restoration, not all-around vehicle improvement.
My car, well…. It’s usually the only one wherever I go, I love it.:)
It’s a 1969 AMC Javelin. It’s an original SST with a 343 and had the dealer installed Donohue package a few months after it was purchased. I bought it from the original owner and finished the resto/ and round one of the mods last year literally hours before the Hot Rod Power tour kick-off.
Most of the modifications are just the old school tricks done to the original TA cars. My wife and I took it to the first 3 stops with zero problems, great event. My two kids and the wife also like to jump in the car and spend the day in the car going on some of our great local curvy roads and some ice cream, really enjoying driving it!:cool:
As you can imagine, I can’t exactly go out and buy hop up parts for this thing:_paranoid so I’ve gotten to be a better fabricator to say the least. For example tomorrow I need to make a few finishing touches to the panhard bar project. I purchased a Maier racing adjustable panhard kit for a mustang, chopped it apart and figured out how to adapt it to an AMC Javelin.
More information to come.
Cheers All:thumbsup: !
Mike
I found this site while looking for information on the Street car challenge at Road America in a few weeks. Fortunately for me I live near RA and will be there checking this out as I would like to participate in such an event in the future. In a previous life I road raced motorcycles so I have been bitten by the road racing bug years ago. This street car challenge is very cool to me as it combines two of my favorite things, road racing and good ‘ol V8 muscle.
There is some amazing hardware on the site and I hope to learn from some of you on this site, other sites are great but they seem to either focus on drag racing or restoration, not all-around vehicle improvement.
My car, well…. It’s usually the only one wherever I go, I love it.:)
It’s a 1969 AMC Javelin. It’s an original SST with a 343 and had the dealer installed Donohue package a few months after it was purchased. I bought it from the original owner and finished the resto/ and round one of the mods last year literally hours before the Hot Rod Power tour kick-off.
Most of the modifications are just the old school tricks done to the original TA cars. My wife and I took it to the first 3 stops with zero problems, great event. My two kids and the wife also like to jump in the car and spend the day in the car going on some of our great local curvy roads and some ice cream, really enjoying driving it!:cool:
As you can imagine, I can’t exactly go out and buy hop up parts for this thing:_paranoid so I’ve gotten to be a better fabricator to say the least. For example tomorrow I need to make a few finishing touches to the panhard bar project. I purchased a Maier racing adjustable panhard kit for a mustang, chopped it apart and figured out how to adapt it to an AMC Javelin.
More information to come.
Cheers All:thumbsup: !
Mike