Battle of the Beaters

[32vofFury]

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?)...

P.S. sorry for youtube's shit quality I know theres a way to make it better but i don't know how.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVip6o62MZk&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Battle of the Beaters[/ame]

 

[01SVTSnake]

hahahahaha thats great

 

[MATT SS]

Looks like you had fun.

 

[cobra_4]

Haha looks like a good time!

 

[FineLineMtrSprt]

I did that with my escaort several times before i moved from the Chicago area. Also did it with a buddies mid 70's Lemans. We took turns driving it down the strip. It was rusted to hell,worn out suspension but had a tank full of Cam2 lol

 

[32vofFury]

I did that with my escaort several times before i moved from the Chicago area. Also did it with a buddies mid 70's Lemans. We took turns driving it down the strip. It was rusted to hell,worn out suspension but had a tank full of Cam2 lol

haha yeah. It was so much fun, because the only value those cars held was their weight in scrap metal. So it didn't matter if they broke or if we blew them up. It made for an awesome time.

 

[FineLineMtrSprt]

Running a funny car in super chevy races kinda puts you on edge, doing things like this really helped us take that edge off and go back to having fun at one point we had my Escaort, the lemans and another budyd had his 94 ranger splash 4cyl automatic. Honestly the ranger was the slowest out of all of them lol.

 

[kevin01cobra]

This should be a business. Buy a junkyard and build a qaurter mile strip. Charge each person $15 to race each other by choosing a car from the junkyard. When the car breaks, crush it.

 

[32vofFury]

This should be a business. Buy a junkyard and build a qaurter mile strip. Charge each person $15 to race each other by choosing a car from the junkyard. When the car breaks, crush it.

haha the only problem was we had raced 4 cars total in a span of probably 7 weeks. We was picking up an average of 2 cars a day, on a daily basis. These were the few that ran good enough, and were safe enough to run haha. What wasn't shown in the video was us kicking dents into the cars and painting them. Along with the custom air box mod we created by physically yanking the headlight out and turning the top portion of the airbox towards the opening haha.

 

[floyd4ford]

lol

 

[32ValveRom]

:lol1: Racing stripes on an escort. Or is that a tempo?

 

[32vofFury]

its an escort. although a tempslo may have been more entertaining. It wouldn't have been the same without the paintjob.

 

[kyl]

next year strip them down take out everything you can, only a driver seat, no exhaust would be funny.

 

[32vofFury]

next year strip them down take out everything you can, only a driver seat, no exhaust would be funny.

Way ahead of you. The reason we didn't do it then was because my buddy was scrapping them afterwords and needed to keep them heavy.

Next year is a different story. Now since the bottom fell out of scrap metal, we can strip the cars down. Next season I plan on documenting the whole thing. We're going to try and be competitive in the street class while spending less than 500 dollars. The cars will start out stock, but as the season progress we will play with suspension, and weight reduction. I garentee you we will find every cheap and free mod that exsists. haha

 

[rfat16]

If you guys liked that check out The 24 Hours of LeMons My fathers buddy been racing the past few years

 

[32vofFury]

If you guys liked that check out The 24 Hours of LeMons My fathers buddy been racing the past few years

That's awesome.:rockon: