- Joined
- Jun 18, 2001
It's been awhile but I am so excited about getting my old car back I wanted to share the story.
The last time I had been down the track was at the 2011 GSCA Nats in my 86 T-type that I did a complete frame off resto on, see thread below.
In the summer of 2012 I traded that T-type for a Stage 2 twin car that I had all kinds of ideas about racing that didn't work out. I ended up selling the roller and parting the rest out.
In 2010 I sold my TSO car to build a new 25.3 x275 drag radial GN. Two weeks ago I finally pulled the plug on the 25.3 project after getting it out of chassis shop hell and it then sitting in the body shop for a year untouched. I was done at that point, I had no more desire to even finish the car or to go racing especially at that level. My life had just changed and I am passed those times at this point. So I sold the roller to Tommy Robinson who is blazing the way to finishing it so we will hopefully get to see that car on a track someday soon.
After watching the Drag Radial GN get loaded up and leaving it dawned on me that I was Buickless for the first time since 1989! It had been close to 5 years since I had been on a drag strip and over 6 years since I last raced my TSO car.
Then I get a call on Monday from the gentleman I traded the 86 T-type to and he wants to know if I would like to buy it back at a "heck of a deal", well hell yeah! When we unload the car I was shocked, not only was it in the same condition as it was in when I sold it to him, the car still had my old vanity plates on it with the 11.01@120 timeslip in the console from the 2011 NATS!! The car was driven less than 50 miles in the last four years, it was like stepping back in time 4 years!
So I am back in action and really excited about having my T-type back and WAY more excited about getting back out and having fun with one again. In my best Al Pacino voice “Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.” lol
I am looking forward to catching up with old friends and planning to attend this year GSCA Nats along with the Norwalk Buick/Olds event.
http://turbobuick.com/threads/a-detailed-pictorial-of-my-86-t-type-resotration.320559/
The last time I had been down the track was at the 2011 GSCA Nats in my 86 T-type that I did a complete frame off resto on, see thread below.
In the summer of 2012 I traded that T-type for a Stage 2 twin car that I had all kinds of ideas about racing that didn't work out. I ended up selling the roller and parting the rest out.
In 2010 I sold my TSO car to build a new 25.3 x275 drag radial GN. Two weeks ago I finally pulled the plug on the 25.3 project after getting it out of chassis shop hell and it then sitting in the body shop for a year untouched. I was done at that point, I had no more desire to even finish the car or to go racing especially at that level. My life had just changed and I am passed those times at this point. So I sold the roller to Tommy Robinson who is blazing the way to finishing it so we will hopefully get to see that car on a track someday soon.
After watching the Drag Radial GN get loaded up and leaving it dawned on me that I was Buickless for the first time since 1989! It had been close to 5 years since I had been on a drag strip and over 6 years since I last raced my TSO car.
Then I get a call on Monday from the gentleman I traded the 86 T-type to and he wants to know if I would like to buy it back at a "heck of a deal", well hell yeah! When we unload the car I was shocked, not only was it in the same condition as it was in when I sold it to him, the car still had my old vanity plates on it with the 11.01@120 timeslip in the console from the 2011 NATS!! The car was driven less than 50 miles in the last four years, it was like stepping back in time 4 years!
So I am back in action and really excited about having my T-type back and WAY more excited about getting back out and having fun with one again. In my best Al Pacino voice “Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.” lol
I am looking forward to catching up with old friends and planning to attend this year GSCA Nats along with the Norwalk Buick/Olds event.
http://turbobuick.com/threads/a-detailed-pictorial-of-my-86-t-type-resotration.320559/
