Racecar vs Street car

[tRustyK5]

Around here if your car is already Alberta registered you can do what you want and mostly get away with it. However if you get pulled over they can go through your car front to back and write up all the fix it tickets they like. I don't know anyone that has happened to.

If, like me you're building a car that has not been on the road here in forever it needs to pass an "out of province" inspection in order to register and insure it. That is a fairly rigorous inspection. For inspection reasons I'm delaying certain parts of the build such as a cage and harnesses. Right now the bench seat and no belts is legal so that is what it'll get inspected with. Mechanically everything else will be new so that will be fine, then it's just lights, signals, horn, wipers etc. All easy stuff that already works on the car.

Once it's registered, inspected, and insured I'll add the cage, and harnesses.

 

[JoshHefnerX]

When I lived in Montgomery, Alabama you didn't technically need ins. And some of the stuff I saw... Came out of dmv. Old 'truck', no bed, no doors and a lawn chair in the interior... But it was legal. Didn't have cellphones back then, or I'd have a pic for proof. Was about '95-96

 

[Bent77]

Couple opinions

If it has the wheel tubs in the back removed and redone, it’s a racecar. Same with the frame
Anytime you put someone’s name on the door or over the window, racecar.

No matter how fast


If you have to change rocker arms or switch fuel systems to get back to street gas, racecar.

Parachute



Just opinion of course

 

[acm]

Couple opinions

If it has the wheel tubs in the back removed and redone, it’s a racecar. Same with the frame
Anytime you put someone’s name on the door or over the window, racecar.

No matter how fast


If you have to change rocker arms or switch fuel systems to get back to street gas, racecar.

Parachute



Just opinion of course

You realize how much my tires would hang out without the tubs???

 

[tRustyK5]

I think the lines can be very blurry. Every time I think if a line in the sand I think about Cleetus's El Camino "Mullet". Registered, insured, cooling system, DOT legal tires, and he does drive it on the street, and has thousands of miles on it since built. It also has a tube frame, parachute, dual fuel systems...

So, I dunno.

 

[Bent77]

You realize how much my tires would hang out without the tubs???

Like a bitchen 70s mopar?

 

[tRustyK5]

Like the Hemi Gremmie!

 

[Bent77]

I think the lines can be very blurry. Every time I think if a line in the sand I think about Cleetus's El Camino "Mullet". Registered, insured, cooling system, DOT legal tires, and he does drive it on the street, and has thousands of miles on it since built. It also has a tube frame, parachute, dual fuel systems...

So, I dunno.

It is interesting how much technology has refined vehicles over time. Cars today are faster than the original Pro Stock and even dragsters, and are capable of so much more

 

[tRustyK5]

Yeah, can you imagine even 20 years ago hearing about a street driven El Camino that can lay down a 6.54 @223 mph? It's not even a big tire car FFS.

 

[Bent77]

Yeah, can you imagine even 20 years ago hearing about a street driven El Camino that can lay down a 6.54 @223 mph? It's not even a big tire car FFS.

I was reading on the SS/S forum that a lot of the Stock Eliminator cars are using a 9" wide down from 10.5" wide and hooking

 

[76zimmer]

How bout the FS/S cars….7’s on a 9” tire???

in 65 a nitro burning 426 blown hemi top fueler ran 7.70. In 2001 a 242 ci n/a six cylinder ran the same et.