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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:27 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:28 AM |
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The real reason why Shelby agreed to help Ford get the Mustang ready for SCCA Trans Am was because he felt obligated as a thank you for the financial support he’d received from Ford for his Cobra program, after Chevrolet had turned him down. Originally Ford had gone to the SCCA and requested some rule changes which the SCCA had refused. Shelby had a good relationship with the SCCA.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:29 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:31 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:35 AM |
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Motor Wheel Corp did make 15" Magnum 500 (with trim rings) wheels. But though Chevy put them on a few promotional Chevelles, they unfortunately were never an option. IMO they should have offered them as an option.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:38 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:41 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:42 AM |
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The advertising agency that handled Plymouth in 1967 was given the task to come up with a name for their new youth oriented muscle car. After extensive market analysis the proposed new name was . . . LAMANCHA! Man of La Mancha was the hit musical of the time.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:43 AM |
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At the time he was inventing Road Runner, Chuck Jones was at his desk in his studio while one of his fellow cartoonists pattered down the hallway with a big armload of drawings. Not wanting to bump into people, he was going, “Beep, beep! Beep, beep!” As he walked past Chuck Jones’ door, Chuck turned and said, “That’s it!” So, that’s how the beep, beep was born.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:44 AM |
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From the time Plymouth decided they wanted to sell a youth oriented inexpensive muscle car to the final prototype (shown here) was a scant 2 months - an unheard of short time in the auto industry. This included choosing a name, negotiations with Warner Bros for licensing the name, which took just a single day, all the art work for the ads and getting the signature horn.
Though Jack Smith is considered the "Father" of the Road Runner he was not the person who originally thought up the idea of the car. That credit goes to Brock Yates, a writer for Car & Driver. Robert S. Anderson (vice-president in charge of the Chrysler-Plymouth sales division) asked Brock, “What do I do to get the kids’ attention?” Brock’s advice was, “Take a car and just strip it down. Anything that isn’t essential, get rid of it. And then stuff the biggest engine you've got into it, so that car will sit at a red light and go: Vroom, vroom, vroom. All the other cars will see it, and they’ll be so frightened that they will run up alleys and hide. Do that car and you'll get their attention.”
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:46 AM |
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Part of the 1968 Road Runner package was to be an exclusive engine only available in this car. To keep costs down the camshaft from the 383/330 HP engine was swapped out for the "hotter" cam of the 440/375 HP engine giving a final spec of 335 HP.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:47 AM |
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Dick Macadam, who was styling director for the Chrysler-Plymouth studios was very adamant about putting a cartoon bird on a car: “Nobody! But nobody will ever put a cartoon bird on one of my cars!”
In an effort to comfort him he was given the right to choose what bird would be on the car. he chose the image (in B & W) of a walking Roadrunner. This was the only place it was situated. All ads showed the bird running. After the car was a huge success the running bird was SOP.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:49 AM |
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It wasn't until 1969 that Chrysler began to offer factory installed 4.10 gears in it's muscle cars via the new Super Performance Axle Package (A32) and Super Track Pak (A34). Previous to 1969 you could get a 4.10 or 4.56 rear but it was dealer installed only.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:50 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:51 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:52 AM |
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The biggest difference between BULLITT and VANISHING POINT was in BULLITT the cars were filmed at actual speed. In VANISHING POINT the cars were filmed with the camera undercranked by 50%. Thus a car going 50 MPH would appear to be doing 100 MPH.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:53 AM |
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Carey Loftin, the Stunt Coordinator for VANISHING POINT originally thought that when the engine and transmission were removed from the Camaro and towed into the bulldozers the car would flip up and over them. Instead it stuck to the blades creating a better shot - by accident. The only time the automatic equipped 383 Magnum R/T Challenger was used in the production was for the purpose of towing the Camaro into the bulldozers. Loftin explained "If you miss a shift with a manual trans towing a car with the rig I was using, the tow car lost all momentum which wasn't an acceptable risk as we only had one Camaro."
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:53 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:54 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:55 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:56 AM |
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It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the percentage of convertibles having power windows was higher than hardtops/sedans. Having owned a number of convertibles it is so much easier just sitting in the drivers seat to hit those 4 buttons lowering the windows then unlatch the top and hit the power top down . . . as opposed to running around the car lowering the windows manually which quite frankly is a PIA.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:58 AM |
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When you ordered Rally I wheels on your 1966 GTO with drum brakes, the drums were painted red. After 1/31/69 when you ordered either Magnum 500 or Rallye wheels with drum brakes on your Chrysler muscle car, the brake drum's front surface were painted red. So what is the origin of the red painted brake drums? Which was the first factory built car to have them? The answer is . . . the 1954 Buick Skylark Convertible
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 12:59 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:00 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:01 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:02 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:02 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:03 AM |
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The technology to have sequential tail lights was ready by the 1964 model year and was earmarked for the Ford Thunderbird. But a number of states had restrictions concerning the technology. So Ford worked with legislators to remove the restrictions and the tech became standard on the 1965 T-Bird.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:07 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:08 AM |
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One week after Chrysler won the 1964 Daytona 500 with it's brand new Hemi (Hemi cars finished 1-2-3) Ford and Mercury engineers were tasked with coming up with an engine that could defeat the new Hemi. 90 days later a 427 SOHC was on the dyno.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:09 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:10 AM |
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Though it made it's debut for the 1967 model year, it wasn't until 1969 that the Cougar was offered in a convertible. Prior to 1969, it was the only pony car not available as a convertible
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:10 AM |
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The reason why the 1968 427 Cougar GT-E has a hydraulic cam instead of a solid cam was to meet increasing Federal mandated emission standards. It was found that if owners did not keep up with maintenance, excessive valve lash would increase said emissions. So the decision was made to take away the maintenance requirement. This resulted in a loss of 30 HP.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:12 AM |
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:13 AM |
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Unlike it's Ford cousin the Mustang all 1967 - 1970 Cougars had a HD Ford 9" rear. Only high performance Mustangs got it. All others got a medium duty 8" rear.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:14 AM |
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The base MSRP on a 1965 289 B/FX Comet was $4,776 which included a K code 289. There were only two options. For an additional $249.50 you got dual Holleys or you could go all the way for $595 and get 4 webbers. These cars weighed 2600 pounds. Unlike the 427 A/FX Comets, anyone could walk into their LM dealer and order one. 15 of them were made.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:15 AM |
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Though all the sales literature says that the 1968 427 Cougar GT-E came standard with FR70x14 radial ply tires none were delivered with them. Instead you got F70x14 WSWs.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:18 AM |
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Because of a rule change made by NASCAR for 1970 models which raised the number of production cars needed to qualify a car from 500 in 1969 to almost 3000 in 1970 the cost of making nose cones for the King Cobra and Cyclone Super Spoiler II out of metal would run more than $2 million dollars ($12,440,876.29 in 2016 dollars). Yes the cost could be driven way down if fiberglass was used but getting that many warp free units was a headache that both Ford and Mercury wanted to avoid so steel was the material of choice. All 6 prototypes do have a fiberglass nose cone though. Both cars were given the axe by incoming Lee Iacocca who slashed Ford's racing budget by 75%.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:19 AM |
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There is evolutionary and then there is revolutionary and that is what the 1966 "flip up" Comets were. At 1700 pounds powered by an injected 427 SOHC they won a staggering 86% of all races they participated in. The weight reduction program was so severe - there are no brakes on the front. The brakes on the rear were experimental Kelsey-Hays all aluminum (including the rotors) disc brakes.
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| Lee Stewart |
03-06-2020 01:20 AM |
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The reason why Chrysler Hemi powered cars were not available with a trailer towing package was due to the Hemi being very sensitive to high combustion heat which was created when towing up hills. This resulted in serious detonation which would lead to burnt pistons and/or valves.
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