Round 3 Update: My Real life derby car before and after ;) 2015

Re: My Real life derby car before and after 2015

I never got why using old and rare cars was any more fun than common 90s-00s cars.

Over here and in the UK alot of people who do this are really dedicated to using old cars, hell alot of the time it just leads to racers paying upwards of at least £5k just to ruin a rare car or even stealing show cars as they are often not even available on the open market very often and they get nothing but a trophy in return 99% of the time. Plus the fact of the matter is half the time older cars last much less time than modern cars too people just do it because they want to.

I get why you would do it in a car thats rusting away and isn't going to get fixed up or used ever.

 

Re: My Real life derby car before and after 2015

I mean, by all means anyone who wants to pay double what I did for a car to fix up that won't pay that way, go for it. I'll sell it to you. If not, then, I don't see the problem.

 

Re: My Real life derby car before and after 2015

Edited first post!

Took her out for round 2 on Saturday. Was great to get to run at the derby that took a full minute of silence and even the pits went quiet for my buddy before we started the show. I loaned out my stock 400 and trans to his brother so that he could get his tribute truck done and run in name of his brother. I felt so terrible that the tranny blew right away and he lost reverse. But he was happy to have made it out to run. I feel like we made up for it in my heat when I took out both of the brothers that had picked on me at pine, and got to go head to head at the end of the derby with my buddy that also ran in name of Carson. I took first and he took second, I also got crowd pleaser award!

Before

After


Now I get to straighten it out for a third run! The motor ran great and I gotta say that it was the best feeling in the world!

 

Re: My Real life derby car before and after 2015

Congrats Mopower! Your unfolding story is unlike any I've seen in these forums.

 

Re: My Real life derby car before and after 2015

Thanks man! Like I said, it was the best feeling in the world. GOtta say, for my first year, I've had a hell of a derby season so far!

 

Update!!! Round 3 Re: My Real life derby car before and after 2015

Updated first post!

Here we go again! Went to cleanup show to try and finish off the gray monster, this is the 3rd go around for this car.


And surprise, surprise, since my brother doesn't have much money, and I didn't want him to buy me a gift this year, I wanted him to spend money on something that we could both enjoy.

I told him I wanted one thing from him and my dad for my birthday. And that was to get my black mod car from earlier this year running again so that he could wreck cars with me at the clean up derby!



Unfortunately, we found out the day before that the motor was junk and is only running on 5 cylinders! But it was already welded in and I didn't want to put in the work of taking it out, so he ran with only 5 cylinders lol.

Got a few action shots for ya'll! My brother and I lined up right next to each other. I thought it looked pretty cool!



Love the grayscale pic!



(I know, there's gonna be a lot of pictures again lol)

19 total cars showed up for our heat! Good thing it was a big enough track so there was still space to move around once cars started getting hung up!




Here's a little action shot as I whip a shitty around my brother. Ref is kinda in the way, but still a good shot



Shortly after this picture I hit a guy into the wall and someone hit my ass end into the wall and I got stuck there, placing about 6th (they didn't pay down that low) IF I had stayed in for one more minute, I would've had 3rd place at least, if not more. Car was still almost as straight as when I brought it there (I may have made the sub frame a little tougher than before )

My brother stayed in though and he ended up going head to head with a pretty well known driver at the end. The motor got hot though and he ended up with 2nd place!



I had a ton of fun and I was very appreciative to have gotten to derby with my brother out there. Was probably my favorite derby weekend, although my first win at my hometown show was pretty damn exciting as well!

My brother's boss photo bombed my car. (He is the one with the red dually Dodge from the earlier pic)



And here's my little big brother with his trophy!



Was a blast! But I think I'm done for the season. Both of these cars will probably get ran again (unfortunately) I'm kinda tired of working on preran cars, but as much work that goes into these babies, It kinda pays to keep the same one around if you can!