Glad you had fun.!

Rated by who and to what standards? Also if those straps brake that winch  wont mean shit. Don't be one of those people that endangers everyone by hauling shit down the road with cheap tie downs. If something happen and you cause an accident with injuries or death you will be sorry. I don't know about your state but in NC that would get you pulled over written ticket and put out of service until your tie down equipment meets DOT standards. I have seen more loads shift or fall off a trailer and cause an accident because someone use shit chains and straps. Ideally you should use DOT approve 5 1/6 transport chain and body hooks along with ratchet binder so that you don't have a problem of the straps being rubbed or cut into by the car while going down the road. Just some friendly advice that wont cost you anything other than the price of the correct equipment but using the wrong stuff can and will cost you dearly one of these days.

God I hate that face in the first pic. Mine has THE EXACT SAME ONE. Means I'm going to have to do something I dont want to do, or buy something I dont want to buy.

Its funny tho cuz when I try it in bed at night it rarely ever works

Eta: seems like you have a really really cool lady op.  You are a lucky man well done sir

I pulled the rad out tonight, didn't see any obvious leaks but I'll check it on the bench. I'm assuming it's toast. I'm more concerned about why it would just rev last night and not move. Today on jack stands the wheels were spinning, but I didn't run it very long since the rad and belt were off.

If I wasn't up north by my folks this weekend that would have been fun to watch. I dont live all that far from Jefferson.

car vs truck demo derby =   sounds dangerous

Edit I didn't read  OP cool man ...  if the radiator can be relocated within the rules thats where it is man

Dude, your wife is awesome.

Give her a fistbump for me.

Lol

Old Crown Vics are some of the very best V8 Enduro cars at the two local tracks I work for

The old police interceptors are best of all.

Those things can take a beating. A couple of weeks ago some knucklehead managed to roll one on the track. We got it back on its wheels with the wrecker, and I'll be damned the thing started right back up. It belched enough white smoke while burning off oil to make half of the track vanish for a couple of minutes, but it competed in the next race

We do a flagpole race every week at one of my tracks. It's ... chaos

They used to do a figure eight race too, but too many people were getting hurt.

Exactly what I was thinking. That is awesome.

Got under the car today and poked around.

Was able to pull the inspection plate off by the flywheel, which is where it's leaking trans fluid, and there was a bunch of clutch material in there. The brake fluid reservoir was empty also, and it looks like the clutch's master/slave cylinders run off that. So that explains why she lost her brakes as well. I'm guessing she was beating up the clutch pretty good all night(and it probably wasn't great to begin with) and the clutch finally shredded and the excess heat blew the seals on the slave cylinder.

In other news, the exhaust was cracked badly right past the cat, so i took the sawzall and chopped it off right at the end of the cat. I also removed the AC compressor and some of the AC lines.