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Allkillers Cuda n Fury
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Last edited by AllKiller on Sat Jun 04, 05 9:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
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Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
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Trev they are just the Bling Street wheels, the big and little's look much Harder, Check new Racing Pic
There's a max wedge motor going in that 63 or maybe a Hemi one day although not correct coz they stuck em in the 64 up models
There's a max wedge motor going in that 63 or maybe a Hemi one day although not correct coz they stuck em in the 64 up models
ALL KILLER NO FILLER
Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
Carbon footprint of a Saturn V
Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
Carbon footprint of a Saturn V
Here's the History then, (a bit of a ramble)
Well, I bought the car off of a good friend of mine Keith Burgess who bought it off of his friend Phil (surname unknown) who I also got to know fairly well, who had just imported it.
Phil used to build allsorts of Custom Amerian Motors, Big block motored 57 Olds Station wagon, A very low Chicano style 65 Riviera and so on and never had time to do anything with the Cuda except paint it, in a very 70s two tone panel effect.
The car had come from Michigan and was already fitted with the same 383 69 H.P. motor that is still in it Today,
It had been done to compete in local oval circuit racing on friday nights. The insertion of the SOLID MOUNTED 383 being the only mod, Everything else was still the original 318 underpinings and column change, Bizarre !!
Keith bought the car off of Phil for ?2000 and bought it home and set about fitting proper engine mounts to the K frame and fitting a B and M Shifter, and a similar 70s pro stock SOX and MARTIN scoop,
Same as the one fitted to the 72 Challenger hood car we saved on this board. Only ingeniously fitted by Keith as a shaker style operation, it looked factory and many people who saw it thought it was.
The Cuda had 2.73 gears and the 383 H.P was stock at 335 horses, the gears giving it a enormouse top end, Keith and I had it off the clock 120 mph in Second gear at around 6 grand ish if I remember.
Any way Keith's wife Teen did not like the car and said it was to Quick, noisy and fast, and POSESSED, this was around the time Christine had come out Remember!
So thankfully Keith said he was going to sell the Cuda and did I want first refusal....... SOLD then and there.
I was only just 18 years old and this car was only 5 years old and only 19,000 miles from new.
I already had a 65 Chevy Impala that i used everyday bought the year before for 700 and was only a one owner car from new RHD for this country, 98,000 miles on it and mint apart from a split in the seat, I still own this car too.
I digress
So the Cuda was not my everyday car and was super special to me, although living outside for about 4 years it was covered and cared for like nothing else I owned, I was living in London Neasden at the time and we had heard of some Illegal drag racing that happened down on the Finchley part of the North Circular where the Safeway supermarket now stands.
I had been Drag Racing with my Dad and loved it, and went often as soon as i got my own wheels.
One of my favourite cars was Les Szabo's Red Baron 71 Cuda, Not only because it was a Cuda but because he Rarely lost and and gave it everything running low 11's I was impressed with his Street Car. that and the Quick Draw Duster.
Anyway we took the Cuda along one night and i was pushed into racing a local guy with a 3100 r.s. Capri, no sweat i thought I'll walk this.......
OOPS lost that one big style although catching him near the finish due to the gears, second is second and will never be first
so Driving back to the garage along side the Capri and owner with ear to ear grin was my WAKE UP CALL
the Cuda sounded so good how did that happen ? why?
Enter Les Szabo who lived locally, and walked over with Dave Pollen of the Pollen Count MK1 Zodiac, to see what went wrong, Saw the Race, what happened ? he said, so no excuses, He was just quicker i said, lots at the start.
I opened the hood and they said its STOCK, and stock aint gonna do it
words that stuck with me for quite a while.
Les and Dave both gave me far too much advice to take in, even between us, myself and my friend Del who had come along for the Glory, Sorry Del.
I read as much as i could, and went to America for a holiday with Del.
Engine parts list in hand, And Bought.... Pistons 12.5 trw, 4.10 gears. gauges, rev counter, Cam, Convertor, the list goes on. The handle snapped on both suit cases under the strain, but we got the stuff home, and gave the lot to Geof Hauser to put together, and to put the gears and roll cage in the car.
At that time Geof used to work from home, in a workshop next to his house.
Then came testing day. it was quick on the street but the strip is where it counts, so at Garys Picnic in 85 the Cuda ran a 13.7 first run, but felt strange and as if holding back. In the pits along comes The Roughneck racing Crowd, a normally intoxicated unruly mob with some fast cars. Blue being one of them, he said try taking the aircleaner off and running it. O.K I'll give that a try. Good advice
Next run huge back fire through the carb and stalled it flames licking though the scoop, Pod Crew blasting the carb through the scoop, turn the key it fires up and restage the car. Green light, go... gone, sitting me hard back in the seat, through the gears and back to the pits and all my mates had gone off to get the timing ticket.
NO clocks back then, a few minutes later and yes!!......... 12.7 at 109 mph Boy I was shocked, but not as shocked as Geof Hauser, who had just come along to see how it was going. Full body weight Cuda and a 383, give it a bit more timing he said so i did next run 12.5 @ 110 mph and so it went last run that weekend 12.48 @ 112 mph.
Delighted wasn't the word
The car was cosistent and would run 12.5 or 12.01 s all day
I decided in 1988 to paint the car, and bare metalled it and had it painted.
This never went as planned as the car had to go back to the shop 4 times to get right and took 3 years to sort out eventually taking the painter to court for a proper job.
A freshening of the motor again by Geof and rebuild the trans new J.W convertor 3800 stall and here we are,
Same car, same engine and same owner 27 years later
and more of a concern same E.Ts.
The car is not dialled in yet and has only run on Mopar Nats meets and thats why, 12.7 being the best.
So its getting a going over this month ready to go 11s and if it dont... the 498 going in.
Hope that wasn't too boring, but thats the story.
And thats the Cuda as it was circa 1986
Well, I bought the car off of a good friend of mine Keith Burgess who bought it off of his friend Phil (surname unknown) who I also got to know fairly well, who had just imported it.
Phil used to build allsorts of Custom Amerian Motors, Big block motored 57 Olds Station wagon, A very low Chicano style 65 Riviera and so on and never had time to do anything with the Cuda except paint it, in a very 70s two tone panel effect.
The car had come from Michigan and was already fitted with the same 383 69 H.P. motor that is still in it Today,
It had been done to compete in local oval circuit racing on friday nights. The insertion of the SOLID MOUNTED 383 being the only mod, Everything else was still the original 318 underpinings and column change, Bizarre !!
Keith bought the car off of Phil for ?2000 and bought it home and set about fitting proper engine mounts to the K frame and fitting a B and M Shifter, and a similar 70s pro stock SOX and MARTIN scoop,
Same as the one fitted to the 72 Challenger hood car we saved on this board. Only ingeniously fitted by Keith as a shaker style operation, it looked factory and many people who saw it thought it was.
The Cuda had 2.73 gears and the 383 H.P was stock at 335 horses, the gears giving it a enormouse top end, Keith and I had it off the clock 120 mph in Second gear at around 6 grand ish if I remember.
Any way Keith's wife Teen did not like the car and said it was to Quick, noisy and fast, and POSESSED, this was around the time Christine had come out Remember!
So thankfully Keith said he was going to sell the Cuda and did I want first refusal....... SOLD then and there.
I was only just 18 years old and this car was only 5 years old and only 19,000 miles from new.
I already had a 65 Chevy Impala that i used everyday bought the year before for 700 and was only a one owner car from new RHD for this country, 98,000 miles on it and mint apart from a split in the seat, I still own this car too.
I digress
So the Cuda was not my everyday car and was super special to me, although living outside for about 4 years it was covered and cared for like nothing else I owned, I was living in London Neasden at the time and we had heard of some Illegal drag racing that happened down on the Finchley part of the North Circular where the Safeway supermarket now stands.
I had been Drag Racing with my Dad and loved it, and went often as soon as i got my own wheels.
One of my favourite cars was Les Szabo's Red Baron 71 Cuda, Not only because it was a Cuda but because he Rarely lost and and gave it everything running low 11's I was impressed with his Street Car. that and the Quick Draw Duster.
Anyway we took the Cuda along one night and i was pushed into racing a local guy with a 3100 r.s. Capri, no sweat i thought I'll walk this.......
OOPS lost that one big style although catching him near the finish due to the gears, second is second and will never be first
so Driving back to the garage along side the Capri and owner with ear to ear grin was my WAKE UP CALL
the Cuda sounded so good how did that happen ? why?
Enter Les Szabo who lived locally, and walked over with Dave Pollen of the Pollen Count MK1 Zodiac, to see what went wrong, Saw the Race, what happened ? he said, so no excuses, He was just quicker i said, lots at the start.
I opened the hood and they said its STOCK, and stock aint gonna do it
words that stuck with me for quite a while.
Les and Dave both gave me far too much advice to take in, even between us, myself and my friend Del who had come along for the Glory, Sorry Del.
I read as much as i could, and went to America for a holiday with Del.
Engine parts list in hand, And Bought.... Pistons 12.5 trw, 4.10 gears. gauges, rev counter, Cam, Convertor, the list goes on. The handle snapped on both suit cases under the strain, but we got the stuff home, and gave the lot to Geof Hauser to put together, and to put the gears and roll cage in the car.
At that time Geof used to work from home, in a workshop next to his house.
Then came testing day. it was quick on the street but the strip is where it counts, so at Garys Picnic in 85 the Cuda ran a 13.7 first run, but felt strange and as if holding back. In the pits along comes The Roughneck racing Crowd, a normally intoxicated unruly mob with some fast cars. Blue being one of them, he said try taking the aircleaner off and running it. O.K I'll give that a try. Good advice
Next run huge back fire through the carb and stalled it flames licking though the scoop, Pod Crew blasting the carb through the scoop, turn the key it fires up and restage the car. Green light, go... gone, sitting me hard back in the seat, through the gears and back to the pits and all my mates had gone off to get the timing ticket.
NO clocks back then, a few minutes later and yes!!......... 12.7 at 109 mph Boy I was shocked, but not as shocked as Geof Hauser, who had just come along to see how it was going. Full body weight Cuda and a 383, give it a bit more timing he said so i did next run 12.5 @ 110 mph and so it went last run that weekend 12.48 @ 112 mph.
Delighted wasn't the word
The car was cosistent and would run 12.5 or 12.01 s all day
I decided in 1988 to paint the car, and bare metalled it and had it painted.
This never went as planned as the car had to go back to the shop 4 times to get right and took 3 years to sort out eventually taking the painter to court for a proper job.
A freshening of the motor again by Geof and rebuild the trans new J.W convertor 3800 stall and here we are,
Same car, same engine and same owner 27 years later
and more of a concern same E.Ts.
The car is not dialled in yet and has only run on Mopar Nats meets and thats why, 12.7 being the best.
So its getting a going over this month ready to go 11s and if it dont... the 498 going in.
Hope that wasn't too boring, but thats the story.
And thats the Cuda as it was circa 1986
Last edited by AllKiller on Wed Jan 22, 14 2:12 pm, edited 9 times in total.
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Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
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Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
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Steve, here's you and Brian at the Nats last year with yer old rims. Lovely car, one of my faves as I said before...incidentally I've earmarked you for the calendar using the pic I took at Wheels Day. If the pic isn't up to scratch when I get there I will need to retake some, but I think it will be fine for printing on 12 x12.
Dave, That would be great. Im made up.
I was chuffed enough when I made the Connected Calendar, and your calendars are Fantastic.
You can take as many pics as you want, do you have engine shots?
I still have the Centrelines that i use for racing, and to change the Image occasionally, let me know.
I was chuffed enough when I made the Connected Calendar, and your calendars are Fantastic.
You can take as many pics as you want, do you have engine shots?
I still have the Centrelines that i use for racing, and to change the Image occasionally, let me know.
ALL KILLER NO FILLER
Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
Carbon footprint of a Saturn V
Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
Carbon footprint of a Saturn V