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Title: reason you choose a FED?
Post by: wideopen231 on April 30, 2019, 03:33:04 PM

 Question asked of me while back. WHy the heck did you build a FED? Especially for bracket racing was second part. Understand most here are not for brackets.Figured would make a fun post.

Me first/ Al;ways wanted one and always get what I want regardless how ling it take. Cool as xxxx! Plus being like 360 RED's or be only FED.I will take only any day.

Title: Re: reason you choose a FED?
Post by: racerken on April 30, 2019, 04:36:01 PM

Ran RED for years.  Quit for awhile and when I decided to get back into racing I thought back about when I had the most fun and it was when I first started racing back in the 70's racing a fed.

Title: Re: reason you choose a FED?
Post by: janjon on May 04, 2019, 05:17:49 AM

I was born and grew up in New Orleans, and just before 1980 while I was still in high school, went to Laplace Dragway and saw a FED in person, and was intrigued and impressed. That was at the LAST DRAG RACE at that track. Some few years later I had a '66 Chevelle that I ran at  State Capital and Gulfport, later I moved to Houston for work, and ran at Eastex Dragstrip, until it closed, and then at what is now Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown.  A buddy turned me on to a FED that was offered for sale, and I traded my Chevelle and trailer for the FED, and its trailer.

Title: Re: reason you choose a FED?
Post by: gregm784 on May 23, 2019, 09:54:28 AM

All my life i dreamed of driving a blown alcohol FED.  Never got the chance to shoe one, so i built one.  Can't imagine owning anything else. 

I've been 8's with doors, 7s in a roadster, but my FED is where my heart is.