Garlits Museum Sat Aug 13th

[Go2GuyFL]

Post up here if you can make it:
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forums/showthread.php?t=71730 (http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forums/showthread.php?t=71730&highlight=Garlits)

[Go2GuyFL]

... bump ... promises to be a great outing!!!

[LANDY]

Bump.............

[JMan]

Here's my post from the other thread-
I should mention that you MUST allow about three hours to walking and gawking in that drag racing museum alone. There is iterations of drag cars I've never heard of and many I knew, but have never been up close to.

Every possible engine imaginable - Rat motors, Ford SOHC and BOSS429's, Early Hemis and Wedgies, Stage Buicks, RamAirs, Rocket motors, etc. And that's just the "production" stuff from way back. Then you get into the Allison Aircraft (P39 Invader/P51 Mustang) engines, the Cadillac Tank engines, Detroits, Rodac, Keith Black, General Electric non-afterburning and afterburning Turbines. And in those front-engined cars, all that power was channelled right between their legs until Big Daddy stretched it out and moved it to the back.

With the videos and graphic presentations and all the information at each car, it's just way too much to see in an hour or two and that's just the drag side. The antique museum is killer too!

If you're a gearhead and have never been there or just drove past it a hundred times like I used to, you owe it to yourself to go take a gander - if not this weekend, some other time by yourself. You'll say, "I shoulda done it sooner" like me.

J

[jimlam56]

Here's my post from the other thread-
I should mention that you MUST allow about three hours to walking and gawking in that drag racing museum alone. There is iterations of drag cars I've never heard of and many I knew, but have never been up close to.

Every possible engine imaginable - Rat motors, Ford SOHC and BOSS429's, Early Hemis and Wedgies, Stage Buicks, RamAirs, Rocket motors, etc. And that's just the "production" stuff from way back. Then you get into the Allison Aircraft (P39 Invader/P51 Mustang) engines, the Cadillac Tank engines, Detroits, Rodac, Keith Black, General Electric non-afterburning and afterburning Turbines. And in those front-engined cars, all that power was channelled right between their legs until Big Daddy stretched it out and moved it to the back.

With the videos and graphic presentations and all the information at each car, it's just way too much to see in an hour or two and that's just the drag side. The antique museum is killer too!

If you're a gearhead and have never been there or just drove past it a hundred times like I used to, you owe it to yourself to go take a gander - if not this weekend, some other time by yourself. You'll say, "I shoulda done it sooner" like me.

J

Thanks Jake, you are totally right. I just got off the phone with the museum, they will offer us a group discount if we get 10 or more folks to show up.
Hope we can do that...:rolleyes: