How Skull
Alley Racing came to be:
It started with two brothers who were around auto racing all
there lives. From drag racing to road racing to motorcycles,
shit we did it all. So needless to say that was always with
another team. So now it was time to do it for ourselves. We
took a 79’ T.A and went to
work. First, it was a Pro Street but it wouldn’t pass E.P.A.
They took one look at the 15-gallon fuel cell in the trunk
with a 3-inch opening and said there was no way they were
going to let me pass so that was the end of a street car.
Well what do you do? Let’s go racing. It was just a back’ed
half-car so we put a stock big-block Chevy in it and went. It
went 9.60’s with a little help from some N.O.S. I always
wanted (as the driver) to go faster but the stock frame
couldn’t take it. So the only thing to do was to make it a
round tube chassis and that’s what we did.
Needless to say that takes a lot of money. First my brother
had to figure the design he was going to make. Then, the
suspensions front and rear. He wanted to make the car hook, so
we went with a multi-adjustable 4-link by Chris Alston’s Chassisworks an Eliminator II with an anti-roll bar set-up.
The front, well lets just say it’s Strange. A Narrowed 12-bolt
(that’s right a 12 bolt) from Mark Williams with 4-piston
caliper brakes. Needless to say you know what else is in the
car but you don’t know how all that stuff feels going down the
track.
Now, how the name came to be. You see there was this old gray
haired man, he just came around .Then one day he asked me if
he could trim the bush outside the garage? I said sure just
don’t kill your self. You see it was Halloween! So when he was
done he called me outside and he had done a masterful job of
making a Skull out of it. It was so good all kind of names
came out of our mouths until it just made sense “Were in an
alley with a skull” that’s how the name came to be.
What can I say!?!
Cast of Characters;
Mike /
Driver & part time pain in the...
Ron / Ace
Mechanic / Frame Builder and full time workaholic
Hip the
welder, aka; cockroach
Lou Guy
an old racer / Good Friend / Helper at the track !
Mr. Max,
Half Ass Photographer / Tattooer / General Pain in the Ass
John and
Terri, Scott and baby Nicolas / Good Friends and Helpers
Zoom /
what can I say it’s ZOOM
D-man /
Resident all around electrical, computer guy & photographer
extraordinaire
Got a
couple more Bob’s and even another Mike , I know go figure
