Tim Forshee’s high school car was a 1973 Pontiac Firebird. And even though I’m not a car guy, I know about the ‘73 Firebird.
Forshee got the car when he was 15. He’s 37 now; and he still has the Firebird, although not in its original form. Not by a long shot.
Forshee and his friends transformed the Firebird into a drag racing machine, one he used two weeks ago to win the Super Street Class race in the O’Reilly’s NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park in Topeka.
Shelley Forshee is a lover of cars, too. She has owned her 1969 Camaro since her high school days at South and met Tim because of their mutual membership in the Wichita Street Roadsters and Rods car club.
“Back in my high school days, Seneca Street and Webb Road were real big hangouts for kids with cars,” Forshee said. “I was a person who did some of that. But things have changed, and I frown on that now.”
Along with a couple of friends and Wichita’s Holzman Racing, he put the final touches on the Firebird about four years ago.
The car had sat for eight or nine years while Forshee went back and forth on what to do with it. He finally decided to make it an all-out race car.
“When he bought that car, it was not in good shape,” Shelley Forshee said. “But he brought it back from the dead. “
“One promise we made to each other when we started dating was that we would never get rid of our cars,” Shelley said. “That was in high school 20 years ago.”
The cars are still with them.
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