When stock cars were really stock...
When you could drive your car to the track, set a record then drive home!
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When stock cars were really stock...
When you could drive your car to the track, set a record then drive home!Richard Quinn
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I kinda miss those days. Great picture, thanks.Originally posted by Studebaker Wheel View PostJoe Roberts
'61 R1 Champ
'65 Cruiser
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Stock clear down to the current front license plate! Now that's stock!
Second-series paint scheme, so certainly a Power Kit 259 in it....or, you know those South-Bend boys; by that date, they could have squirrled one of the first 289s in it and fooled everybody.
BP
We've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge. 
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.Comment
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Period advertising verifies your find, Dick:
"You're the king of the highway in this V8 Commander with the high-power pack and twin exhaust stacks...it will absolutely out-drag any strictly stock car!"
There you have it. BP
We've got to quit saying, "How stupid can you be?" Too many people are taking it as a challenge.
G. K. Chesterton: This triangle of truisms, of father, mother, and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.Comment
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Thanks for posting!!!Originally posted by Studebaker Wheel View Post
May actually have been some kind of a "Factory effortSouth Bend Motor Speedway is conveniently located about halfway (approx. 5.5 miles in either direction) between . Who knows, it may actually have one of those Proving Grounds, simply drive it down the road and test it some more on theComment
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Upon further review;
Is that a blonde behind the wheel and a Dealer (DLSouth Bend Motor SpeedwayNOTComment
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Go studebaker! [ATTACH=CONFIG]22314[/ATTACH]Comment
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According to my 2013 National Speedway Directory, South Bend Motor Speedway is a high banked 1/4 mile asphalt oval. 17.87 seconds is an impressive time, even for a high bank! The most limiting factor would be those tires. Any "stock car" today would be running 11" wide asphalt slicks with tread more like an art gum eraser than a street tire.Comment
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The C bodied are "probably" (hedge word) lighter than the hard tops and there is measurably less drag (at Bonneville speeds).
So the competition was lucky that the "slower" hardtop ran.
My unprofessional opinion is that a 259 could be a good fit for a !/4 mile oval and a 289 would not have improved much on its time.
Plus, the 259 would have used less of the 30 cent gas doing the record.
About the only unfulfilled thing left to do on my loosely kept bucket list was drive a stock car at least once.sigpic
Lark Parker --Just an innocent possum strolling down life's highway.Comment
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