05-25-2020, 10:45 PM
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It's 1962 and Ford has a problem . . . their Galaxie is not competitive in NASCAR due to the shape of the roofline. This is going to be corrected in 1963 but . . . it's 1962. So Ford gets creative:
Ford takes a Galaxie convertible and adds the desired roofline via a fiberglass roof bolt on called the Starlifter.
The car only got one NASCAR start at Atlanta (June 62) and was won by Fred Lorenzen. NASCAR said it wasn't a production item (it wasn't) which made it illegal. But it did work for that one race.
NASCAR ran 53 races in 1962. Ford won a total of 6.
1963 was a whole different ballgame. NASCAR ran 55 races that year and Ford won 23 of them. New roofline for 63 and most important, new engine: the mighty Ford 427.
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