Cliff Fendley
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Pulling truck
This pic was from another era of my life. I was ate up with this stuff for years.
The Cliff Hanger circa 1998 or so.
I built the truck and running gear from scratch out of a friends junk yard in 1993. The truck went through miner changes with the frame and such but remained pretty much the way I originally built it. I built all the running gear, drive shafts, clutches, oiling system. I modified the dump truck transmission and rear axle and made the 15 inch by 15 inch wide wheels to fit the big truck hubs. I did a big part of the motor work and built my own carburetors and fuel systems, headers etc.
I won 4 points championships with it until basically retiring from it in 2000. I won the KTPA pro stock points championship in 2000 and that pretty much met all my goals. I still miss it when I think about it but its really a rich mans sport to compete and win. The only way I was able to was because I was able to do much of it myself and also do some work for competitors vehicles.
It is a rush in control of all that power and getting a 5800 pound truck hooked up and running with a 40,000 pound sled at nearly 35 miles an hour in a 300 foot dirt track. Pulling is the most powerful sport on earth.
Edit, I actually still have the truck sitting in one of the barns and have a almost completed motor sitting in the machine shop. Even though I should let someone else get some good from it and get it out of my way I can't bring myself to part with it. It's like a part of me.
This pic was from another era of my life. I was ate up with this stuff for years.
The Cliff Hanger circa 1998 or so.
I built the truck and running gear from scratch out of a friends junk yard in 1993. The truck went through miner changes with the frame and such but remained pretty much the way I originally built it. I built all the running gear, drive shafts, clutches, oiling system. I modified the dump truck transmission and rear axle and made the 15 inch by 15 inch wide wheels to fit the big truck hubs. I did a big part of the motor work and built my own carburetors and fuel systems, headers etc.
I won 4 points championships with it until basically retiring from it in 2000. I won the KTPA pro stock points championship in 2000 and that pretty much met all my goals. I still miss it when I think about it but its really a rich mans sport to compete and win. The only way I was able to was because I was able to do much of it myself and also do some work for competitors vehicles.
It is a rush in control of all that power and getting a 5800 pound truck hooked up and running with a 40,000 pound sled at nearly 35 miles an hour in a 300 foot dirt track. Pulling is the most powerful sport on earth.
Edit, I actually still have the truck sitting in one of the barns and have a almost completed motor sitting in the machine shop. Even though I should let someone else get some good from it and get it out of my way I can't bring myself to part with it. It's like a part of me.
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