Kirby has finally made some trips to the track. He has made about 6 1/4 mile passes and 8 or 10 1/8 mile psses. We must have made some good guesses on the set up because he has run straight and hard every pass - or at least every pass the driver did his job!!
Kirby weighs just over 3000 lbs with the driver (me) and his best 1/4 mile time was out at the Gasser Reunion race in Ohio. He ran 11.72 at 113 mph. One of the pictures is of our last run against a very nice '55 Chevy "gasser" style car. I love the car but couldn't help but enjoy "blowing his doors off" - OK, maybe we didn't blow his doors off but on that pass he ran 11.93 and we ran 11.73. We definitely got there first.
He may not be fast in comparison to the mega engined street cars that folks are building these days but for a little old 6 cylinder in a 1950 pickup he does OK for himself.
Kirby (windows live)
