Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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9 My Experiences as a Dragster Ever since I had been sixteen I had dreamed of having a car. Now, after finishing school and saving for three years, I fiad enough money. I bought a '60 Pontiac convertible, jet black with a white top. The inside upholstery was a beautiful red and white. But the thing I liked best about it was the motor. It was stick shift with fuel injection. For the first six months X took it easy, not driving it over eighty. During this time I put fender skirts on it and crash bars. The crash bars wore for my own protection in case it rolled over. N5ow my car was ready for action. One bright Saturday night I thought I would give it a trial run. I went down town to find an ooponont. I cruised around town until I found one. It was a kid about eighteen with his father's car. The car, a 60 Oldsomobile Super 88, with the big'goet motor made that year, was a fast car. I pulled along side of him and asked if he wanted to out it uo against my car. He said yes, and that he had ta.ken cars just like mine in second gear. We drove outside of the cilty to a two mile striaght way. We nulled along beside each other. I told him to start out and I’d b right be- hind him. I slipped' her intolow and waited for him to start. When I saw him start, I dropood the clutch and floored it. I could feel the tires spinning so let up on her, and. hit second, I waited fort ho speedometer to climb to niwt-’- then hit high. By this time the Oldsomobile was about ton car links behind me. I let the speedometer climb to one hundred and thirty. By this time the Oldsomobile's head lights wore just showing in the mirror. This was just the first drag race. Aftor about ten races my car was beginning to be well known. It was like a fast gun of the West, Everybody wanted to try to boat It. Everybody wanted to race mo; some with junk Fords and. others with better cars. Aft -r quite a few races my c-r began to uso some oil and it was • very hard on tiros. From then on I wouldn't drag unless there was money on it. This wont along fine; I was making a little money, and hadn't been beaten yet. All at onco a streak of real bad luck hit me. First I took the transmission out thon the roar end. I took it easy for the next couple of weeks. But drag racing is like a habit forming drug you just can't got along without it. So totiok at'it I wont. By this time the cops were kooping a close oye on me, but so far, I hadn't been caught. One thing that helped was a devico to turn the number plate light out. A couple of times the cops tried to catch mo, but failed. Thon came the day when I took a boating by another '60Pontiac a twin to mine, except it ha$ a larger engine than mine. That broke my spirit to race. Anyit was rather risky business; I was just lucky I didn't got kil].od. So I traded my Pontiac in for a six cylinder Chovy, a '56, Slush pump, and it was another convert- ible. Don Richard '62

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