Duane Black
Curbs go brrrppp
I was instructing in our clubs autocross school recently, which I knew gave instructors lunch runs for fun. For entertainment, i took my 1968 Torino, 390 4v (carburetor barrels, not valves for you young ones out there), and its column shifter C6 automatic. it was primarily entertainment. All but 2-3 novices outran this.
As runs begam, i asked if anyone wanted a ride. Two females hopped in the back, @Apex3V hops in the passenger seat, and we took 2 runs.
1 run looking over the nose, one run watching me wrestle a no power steering car around.
I have put this car om the scales, it tips 4000 by itself on 225/70R14 bfg radial t/a tires. But its fun to fight with.
As runs begam, i asked if anyone wanted a ride. Two females hopped in the back, @Apex3V hops in the passenger seat, and we took 2 runs.
1 run looking over the nose, one run watching me wrestle a no power steering car around.
I have put this car om the scales, it tips 4000 by itself on 225/70R14 bfg radial t/a tires. But its fun to fight with.
I sold my 1969 Torino that was also an S-code 390 C6 to get my current 2013 Boss 302. I had plans to turn that car into an autocross/HPDE car and had some light suspension work done to it and ended up building a fuel injected 445 FE stroker and started to have a lot of reliability issues with the car and realized it wouldn’t be the best track car unless I dumped tens of thousands into it and just did not want to modify the car too much more at that point. Glad to see someone mess around with an old car like that just for fun on track.
