That's a lot of power Ina a beautiful car.
Small block 59 Chevy ...WOW
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That's a lot of power Ina a beautiful car.
75LandYacht
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The torque that it must’ve took to lift a 5000+ pound car like that is impressive.
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69PHOENIX
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As Don Garlits Discovered Many Years Ago.
You Only Need the Wrong Gear Ratio and the Pinion Will Climb the Crown.
I Think he Still Holds the Record for the Highest Speed Going Through the Traps Upside Down & Backwards. LOL
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Tony.M
You Only Need the Wrong Gear Ratio and the Pinion Will Climb the Crown.
I Think he Still Holds the Record for the Highest Speed Going Through the Traps Upside Down & Backwards. LOL
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57fury440
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I know we are all Mopar people on here but that's a 1960 Chevy.
That was my first reaction to the video too - that car isn't half as ugly as an actual 1959 Bel Air.
That's right! I thought of that for a brief second, then thought, they said 59, I'm wrong.
A little less, especially being a race car. If I remember correctly the hardtops (Impala) are on the books at ~4200 lbs. Convertibles added about 500 lbs. Post cars (Biscayne & Bel Air) are ~200 lbs lighter than hardtops.
Are my Chevy roots showing yet?
Yeah, that car is definitely lightened .
Wow
X frame GM cars tend to launch like that. That's over the top though.
Used to watch Charlene Woods launch her stock class Poncho wagon 40 years ago. I remember standing behind this car on the line at Utica Rome and seeing the spare tire well touch the track on launch. 9" tires with a stock engine.
Used to watch Charlene Woods launch her stock class Poncho wagon 40 years ago. I remember standing behind this car on the line at Utica Rome and seeing the spare tire well touch the track on launch. 9" tires with a stock engine.
68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
That what happens when the treat the track with all that sticky stuff.
Someone in the Fury World thought they needed this.
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So tell me please, I'm not a racer, how do they bite so hard?
When a leaf spring Mopar launches, the rear raises to plant the tires. When a coil sprung GM launches, it squats, usually toward the right rear. A X frame GM (called that because the frame looks like a X) twists when it launches so it squats and twists pushing the right rear down while torque lifts the left front.
GM X frame
Yep, X-frame were under all full size GM cars '58-'64, and Cadilliac '57-66 (?). Front-to-back they are strong. Side-to-side/twisting not so much. If you jack up one corner on a hardtop or convertible car the doors will not open. Actually they twist so much that the '62-64 hardtop cars are bad about ripping the top of the quarter panel where the C pillar comes down. That's after many years and miles, but it is common. All of that was in part to have a "jet-smooth" ride.
Pontiac or Olds had a better, modified version with side rails.
Pontiac or Olds had a better, modified version with side rails.
Having never owned one, I've always wondered how you remove the driveshaft in one of those?
Straight out the back (axle side). It's a two piece shaft supported by a carrier bearing inside of the tunnel.
Oh.. So you need to uncouple two u-joins instead of one? Thanks. I was thinking they were a solid shaft.
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