Working on putting together a new project for our racing operation. I've always said when I get older I want to do another cool door car.

Well, what is older? lol! I turned 58 this past November and decided now is the time.

Can't wait to show you guys what I got up my sleeve, but it has to come to fruition first.

That brings me to a question.

What would be your last dream car if you have the opportunity to build it? Let's hear it.

SL...

Its out there resting in the garage. Had it about 24 years and at the time it was new to me I figured I would be lucky to live 10 more years but have now lived 25 more and still going. It still prints tickets so it will have to do. To old to build another.

My one last car would be bought & not built. A COPO or a Cobra Jet, boosted of course.

My old junk Camaro I'll be buried in or my ashes will ride in it.

2BKING

53 or 55 Chevy 210

66 Chevy 2

But most importantly: all steel, all glass

I built it 5 years ago. '84 S10, S&W rear 4-link kit, 406, glide, 4.88 alky carb. After 17 race cars and some darn good ones, this S10 is EZ in and Out, repeats better than anything I have owned, EZ to work on, EZ to see out of and electric windows for hot summer days. It has been a tremendous bracket machine, 1042 runs in the 4 seasons I have raced it.
Jok

This is a good subject and something I ponder often. NOTE: I will be 79 this July, so I have a first-hand view of the situation. Starting around age 62, I begin to say, "I need to build one more nice car." And I did, an S-10 NHRA Super Stocker that ran .6 under index first time out. Since then, I have built and sold 3 more bracket cars and am currently building my personal S-10 top bulb package. So, as mentioned above, "define old."

In addition, I sold my home, moved, and built another 40 x 40 shop.

My fellow race buddies, this is the thing: follow your passion, whatever that may be. And do not be surprised if your definition of "old" and "passion" changes along the way.

And one more pearl of wisdom, begin today because we have no promise of tomorrow. Just this morning, my shoulders are so sore I need to take a few days off. I don't like missing workdays because I am driven, have been my whole life, but I have gradually learned my workday times are limited to a few hours. Plus, I often think, "how will I manage a 12 - 14 hour drag race?

Go figger, getting old, whew, what an adventure!

At 56 years old, I'm hesitant to call it a "last car", but over the past 6-8 years, I've fallen in love with 59/60 corvettes and 55/56 Chevys. Those 2 specific year Corvettes, with the 4 headlights & mean looking grille, along with the smooth rounded rear quarters (nice hips, ya know) fitted with a wide set of slicks are supremely sexy to me. Maybe one day it will happen, although I'm more of a parts changer, not necessarily builder, so I'd have to buy one that has all the hard stuff already done.

What Jok says about the S-10 is true. They are relatively easy to work on. Getting in and out is easy, even for those of us who have FOS disease. [Fat, Old, Stiff] If doing a back half, just set the bed off, build or buy a set of frame rails, and reinstall the bed. [It is not quite that easy, but much easier than a door car.]

The S-10 I am building now is very bare bones, the most stripped-down piece I have ever built. I expect it to weigh less than 2800 pounds race-ready with driver.

With a relatively mild 383, all shelf parts, around 6.20s ET.

The biggest problem is everything I would want to own/build is now a valuable antique. Those early Corvettes 58-62 were cheap bodies back in the day. My 55 210 sedan was given to me by a neighbor when the motor went bad. 69 Camaro would be on the list and they are off the charts even for a rusted out hulk. My Camaro when I bought it I parted it out and was ahead on it before I built it into a bracket car.

'57 Corvette, turbo charged small block, street car.

My first street/race car was a McCullough super charged 265 ci small block with a Muncie four speed.

Bob

Mine will be a factory stock classic muscle car, not a race car, and I'll buy it finished.

Mine is the old hay hauler we have been working on for 26 yrs. My son is adding to it all the time. The latest is a new 540 built by Shaffirof for twin turbos. It just goes on.

Larry, have you started a build thread yet?

I have my one last car!

Mr 352, here is the link. It is on page three, I did not realize I had neglected the posting. I will do some updates soon.
https://drr.infopop.cc/eve/for...0760912/m/1757059107

63 Split Window or GT40. Not race cars.

I thought this was going to be my one last car everything I wanted. Took two years to build it and ran into a few issues along the way. It was nice and total blast to drive but long chassis, hard to load and can be a handful in rough shut down areas.


So I bought this one with huge cage, strut front and a four link rear. Ordered a carbon fiber rear wing to cover up ugly spare tire on Bantom body and going to get some nice looking skinnies up front.



After driving a bunch of different cars including this one below I think the perfect car would be a stiff chassis like Altered but four link rear about 175" wheelbase and with highboy seating position. More or less a cross between all three of these cars.

My one last car was my first and only car. I bought my '55 210 delray in 1969 from the proverbial little old lady that drove it to church on sunday. All original,265 engine,cast iron powerglide. 14000 miles. Was my family car for years, drove it to the race track and ran the street class in it at a blistering 16 seconds. Slowly modified it with a 350 engine and trans, still drove it to the track and changed tires with a bumper jack and lug wrench. By 1992 I had made it unstreetable enough that I had to get an open trailer, now I was barking with the big dogs. Fast forward 57 years, now due to financial and physical limitations, it is going to a new home. It will continue its life in division 6. One redeeming factor for me is that it will still be in the family.

I have always wanted an 88-92 Cavalier Z24 forever. Ex super stock car would be awesome. Just for bracket racing, nothing fancy. 6.20-6.40s something in that range.