For you gusy to fully understand this video, theres a story to go along with it. My best friend (Feature in the video) used to scrap cars for money last summer when scrap metal was still high. One night we were sitting at a restuarant and I said somethin to him about racing the cars he scraps if they run. So we went through with it. We found two cars the ran and he bought them both for 175 dollars each. A 91 Ford Escort and an 89 i think Mercury Tracer. The escort sported a 1.9 sohc motor while the tracer had a 1.8 dohc. Both ran mid to high 18 second ets at barely 70 mph. We had a blast. We both agreed that in the 10 or 11 years we've been racing, this was the most fun we've ever had. We plan on doing it next year, but we will do cheap mods to the car gradually to see how much et we can pick up. We actually were pretty successful we won a total of 90 bucks and a couple trophies with them. We were known as "the kids with the beaters." At the track. It was nice to have a break from the seriousness of racing points there every weekend and always worrying about winning races. This gave us a good chance to just goof off and have a good time. I got the third round of eliminations and i was screwing around with the tracer an put it on the rev limiter and blew either a head gasket or a radiator hose off of it in the staging lanes before the round. Jeff's escort broke during transportation from our pit area to where we store the cars. The car would not go into gear. It was a blast. So without further edu (sp?)...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVip6o62MZk&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Battle of the Beaters[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVip6o62MZk&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Battle of the Beaters[/ame]
