{"id":42362,"date":"2020-09-06T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=42362"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:22:18","slug":"the-family-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2020\/09\/the-family-business.html","title":{"rendered":"The Family Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You know the universe gave you the perfect family if your name is Lyndsy Payne. She shares a love of Dodge classics and racing with her father and credits him for teaching her all she knows about cars and racing. Lyndsy is from Appleton, New York. Ever heard of it? No? Me neither! But you could throw a rock from there to Canada or walk to Niagara Falls, and it’s not too far of a drive from the Brampton Assembly Plant where all of our glorious Dodge Challengers and Chargers are built. I thought it would be cool to find out what the population of Appleton is. Wikipedia has the following data on Appleton, nothing more, and nothing less: \u201cAppleton is also home to many acres of scenic farmland. In addition, Appleton has its own post office and a number of thriving businesses.\u201d Well, OK then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to Lyndsy! I have been following her on Instagram for a few years now and love what she does. Recently, I had the chance to catch up with her to get some backstory on all the cool photos she posts. It\u2019s not too often you find a young lady racing a car almost twice her age, so I had to find out more. At 30 years old, Lyndsy has a love for the classics and carburetors. I asked her to fill me in on how she ended up building and racing cars that are 50 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just missing the ’80s by a year, Lyndsy was born in 1990. Growing up, her dad was always into hot rods and racing. Like any father does, he wanted his kids to take after good \u2018ol pops and learn the world of wrenches and racing. That isn\u2019t always easy when all of your children are girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Lyndsy was just 9 years old, her father brought home a\n1970 Superbee. It took a little convincing, but Lyndsy jumped into the project\nquickly with her father. The two worked together on the car for about four years\nbefore the car was back on the road. The duo worked hand in hand on every part\nof the car, everything from tearing down the motor to replacing body panels.\nEventually, Lyndsy\u2019s father took a back seat \u201csupervisor role\u201d and let her take\nover all the wrench duties.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lyndsy recalls that one of her father\u2019s biggest fears was\nthat after all the work and time put into the hobby that once high school came\nalong, she would lose interest and become more focused on your \u201ctypical\u201d high\nschool girl things: friends, sports and… gasp<\/strong>… boys. Despite being picked\non by some folks at school for being somewhat different than the herd, Lyndsy\nkept with it, spending most days after school working on cars with her father. She\nelected to not even drive that bad boy to school to avoid getting picked on.\nHigh school is such a weird time mentally. It\u2019s amazing we live past high\nschool in today\u2019s society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fast forward a few years to 2012. Lyndsy scored herself a 2012 Dodge Challenger. Shortly after picking up her 2012, Lyndsy and her father found a real diamond buried on Craigslist. A 1972 \u2018Cuda, and not some \u2018roller\u2019 rust bucket! The ‘Cuda started its life in Louisiana, sporting a Lemon Twist paint job with a white top. It then made its way to Texas for a few years, and then on to New York, where it eventually popped up on Craigslist just a few hours from Lyndsy. In 1992, it was titled with just 29,000 original miles. And even to this day, it only has 31K original miles on the body. Sometime during its lifespan, someone outfitted the car to be set up as a strip-only car in terms of parts and function. However, it is registered and street legal and isn\u2019t exactly set up for comfort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fitted with some huge 15\u201d wide rollers in the back, the car has seen very little street time the past 30 years. It was repainted red and switched to a black top sometime prior to landing at the Payne house. It originally came off the assembly line as a 340CID 4-speed car, but it sits a bit different now that Lyndsy’s got her hands on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Superbee was more of a street cruiser, built to take to\nshows and cruise around town on the weekends. It\u2019s putting out roughly 400hp,\nwhich is just enough to make the old girl get out of its own way. Prior to\npicking up the \u2018Cuda, the father\/daughter duo didn\u2019t have a drag car, so track\ndays were limited to the occasional outing in the Superbee and going to watch\nfriends and family race. The \u2018Cuda was the perfect piece to the puzzle for the\nPayne gang. It was a ready-to-race machine in need of a pilot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyndsy immediately started hitting the tracks every Friday\nand Saturday night, with pops in tow (not the other way around). She learned the ropes and the car quickly,\nand started beating up on all the boys around the area. Lyndsy was at the track\nso much that her father had to go out and pick up his own car to race! Pops picked\nup an AMX to tote to the drag. Time to bring the Payne (see what I did there?).\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u2018Cuda underwent a few different changes over the years\nto where it sits today. The car features a 440 stroked to a 512CID with a 727\ntransmission and a Ford 9\u201d rear end. It cranks out about 700hp and is geared\nfor 1\/8th mile racing. By design, it consistently runs mid 6s in\nthe 1\/8th mile. Lyndsy points out that the car could easily run\nfaster, but doing so would require a cage and other safety equipment and they\ndon\u2019t want to hack up a car in such good shape just to go a little faster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like the Superbee, all the work on the \u2018Cuda was done at\nhome by the father-daughter duo. Lyndsy claims that the competition is steep in\nthat area and races almost every Friday and Saturday the entire season at\ntracks like NYIRP\/Lancaster Dragway and Empire Dragway. Payne mostly competes\nin bracket racing with one goal: not losing. \u201cI hate losing, it\u2019s a major pet\npeeve,\u201d Lyndsy said, laughing as she tells me. \u201cThe\ntalent in the area is crazy, and if your light (reaction time) has a number\nother than zero as the second digit, you\u2019ve already lost.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyndsy recently picked up a 1973 Challenger with Arizona\nplates on it, but she has yet to track down its full history like she did with\nthe \u2018Cuda. Her goal is to put a HEMI\u00ae<\/sup> engine in it and keep it a mild street\/strip car.\nShe ditched her 2012 Challenger in lieu of the classic. I\u2019m thinking that this\ngal is going to have to start pouring a slab for a 10-car classic Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> garage!\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No, Lyndsy doesn\u2019t ONLY love the classics. This spring, she\nwent and picked up a brand-new 2020 Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat Redeye in Hellraisin\npaint, to round out the lineup. Hellraisin is a new color for Dodge, and\narguably one of the coolest (and rarest) colors to date. Lyndsy has only taken the SRT Hellcat Redeye to the track\nonce so far. I asked her what her plans are for THIS car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI plan to just leave it alone and drive it,\u201d she said. To\nwhich I replied, \u201cNo you don\u2019t!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lyndsy points out that she loves the lines on the classics,\nand really appreciates the newer Challengers staying so true to those lines.\nDriving the SRT Hellcat Redeye is a much nicer and carefree drive than the \u2018Cuda or\nSuperbee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To top that \u201csmall\u201d collection off, Lyndsy has a few others\nfrom the Dodge family in the garage, including a 2000 Dodge Ram Cummins Dually,\nof course for towing, and a 2006 Jeep\u00ae<\/sub> Grand Cherokee for that awesome \u201clake\neffect\u201d weather during the New York winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s refreshing to see someone from the younger generation\nso into the classic cars from long before we were born. Being so hands on, and\nactually driving and racing them is totally cool in my book. Best of the\noriginal HEMIs, and best of the newest HEMIs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can follow Lyndsy\u2019s Racing adventures on Instagram @lynzpayne<\/a> and check out her awesome fleet, as well as all the really cool hot rods she runs into at the track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keep doing what you do, Lyndsy!! PS: Be on the lookout for her dad’s ProMod 4-second SRT Demon hitting the track soon!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know the universe gave you the perfect family if your name is Lyndsy Payne. She shares a love of Dodge classics and racing with her father and credits him for teaching her all she knows about cars and racing. Lyndsy is from Appleton, New York. Ever heard of it? No? Me neither! But you could throw a rock from there to Canada or walk to Niagara Falls, and it’s not too far of a drive from the Brampton Assembly Plant where all of our glorious Dodge Challengers and Chargers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":42343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[526,2948,528],"class_list":["post-42362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-challenger","tag-dodge-classics","tag-drag-racing"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/feature.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42362"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42933,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42362\/revisions\/42933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}