This car ran at the sanders county fair in plains mt. It also had a 1 ton axle under it. Being a mopar fan and a derby fan i though this car was bad ass! When i asked the driver why a cummins he told me that he had plenty to spare. That was hard for me to take because a just dropped 5k on rebuilding mine. This was the first derby car this guy ever built. not bad for the first build!!! CUMMINS TURBO DIESEL DEMOLITION DERBY www.bbddn.com
And some of us WOULD consider a Cummins and a 1-ton axle “good shit”. How about you build what you want, and we’ll build what we want. If we all only built with what you consider “good shit”, things would get kind of boring pretty quickly. There are other engines besides the dime-a-dozen Chevy smallblock, and I think that being original is a lot cooler than doing the same damn thing as everyone else. But you can feel free, and maybe someone will be impressed enough with your car to post it on YT
How the hell is that sandbagging? He was hitting cars and dodging others, not sitting in the corner waiting. I don’t get how the car starts out, and is soon a wreck, but then the video goes back to the car being in good shape again. Bad editing. And during the last half of the video, the right front wheel is about to fall off, but during the first part, when the trunk is all crumpled, it looks okay. I don’t get it…how does the wheel fix itself?
@justforever96 the video is just clips of the car. its not in any order, just footage of the car during the derby. relax it’s ok. and for the rest of your comments not sure who you are directing them too.
I wasn’t trying to complain about the video really, I just was curious about the wheel that looks like it’s falling off, but then is okay. I doubt that that’s really what it is, but it looks like the wheel is okay when the car is wrecked, and like it’s falling off when the car still has it’s whole trunk, etc. I love the car anyway, although it’s too bad to see such a nice old machine getting wrecked. As for my other comments, “sandbagging” is to “shutty935”, and “Cummins” is to “ddoubled8129”.
@justforever96 cool. the car ran two different heats and he might have done some work on the tire between heats. I agree he was not sandbagging. it just was his first derby and trying over come the awe of it all. he lost his drive line right before he made it to the main. a good showing for a first timer.
yes i broke a tierod end a torch some reddy rod and a welder good as new lol the only downside to the cummins at least with that car was i couldnt go as fast as other cars could in reverse but it ripped forward but i didnt want to hit hard with the front because it was so weak but i could get into 3rd gear easy but i had the front suspension solid so no movement because i was worried about breaking the torsion bar from cranking them up and the extra weight of the engine.
going to run some airshocks on the front of them imperial to combat the weight and maybe turn the pump up some more to make it really rip now that i get to hit with the front with the imperial
@440dart1 can’t wait to see it. are you going to be able to run the sub frame with the cummins motor? hope so.
awesome car! 5/5
cummins power!!!!!!!!!
64 imperial is a full framed car the car i had last year is a subframe car
the sub frame is what makes a imperial a imperial. it mounts to the frame and motor. you can take them out and put them in a Newport like the cat that won last year. i was just wondering if you were still going to be able to use it with the cummins.
Now that’s a derby car
@dieselpower4ever that’s what i thought
Damn dude, sick derby car.
nice! thats somegood extra weight! you need like a 3.08 gearset in a 9 inch ford to get some reverse speed. Are they going to let you run it this season? I would like to see you bring it to nebraska. we have a pretty damn big one down there. We had a few guys from gillette (coalwhiners) come down for it lastyear
i thought diesel engines wern’t allowed for demo derbys
u dnt kno how to drive
@dipasqualet44 It was his very first derby! One hell of a car for a first build.
my buddy ran a 76 buick riviera with a 455 in it and got 2nd place in the heat and 1st in the feature….he took the motor out and only runs 70’s buicks with the same engine every time…!!
@quadGOD12953 I have ran the same 383 in the last 5 derbys.
That is a badass car..but if you ever want to watch a good derby, type in Pleasant Hill IL Derby and watch any video. Some of the best built cars and motors that you will ever see. We also had an Imperial run on propane last year and that car was awesome. Last year there was a guy that cut the middle out of a limo and welded it back together.
looks littlebit like my model
Maybe I should put a diesel in my derby car.lol
@85Mopar I have watched some of them Bad ASS!!