A couple month ago, there was a post on Gordon Williams about how he bought two new Studebakers, one for his wife and one to go racing. Studebaker thought since he deleted the undercoating, but was buying two new cars, they would throw in the undercoating on the race car.
Back in the day-1963- factory race cars and high budget cars would be bought new, then stripped down and acid dipped to get rid of weight, so they could add weight where they wanted for weight transfer. Factory cars-i.e. Chrysler, Pontiac, Ford even built cars with aluminum front ends to get rid of front end weight.
I am in the process of building a frame off clone 63 Daytona convertible R2, 4-speed Super Lark. I scrapped off all the undercoating and put it in 5-gallon buckets. Guess the weight? 75 pounds of undercoating excluding the dust from wire wheeling. Now you know why Gordon Williams was so upset with the free undercoating Studebaker put on his race car. 100 pounds equals 1/10 of a second in the quarter mile. When you were running in NHRA classes back then, that was a ton of ET.
Studebaker was just too generous!!!
Back in the day-1963- factory race cars and high budget cars would be bought new, then stripped down and acid dipped to get rid of weight, so they could add weight where they wanted for weight transfer. Factory cars-i.e. Chrysler, Pontiac, Ford even built cars with aluminum front ends to get rid of front end weight.
I am in the process of building a frame off clone 63 Daytona convertible R2, 4-speed Super Lark. I scrapped off all the undercoating and put it in 5-gallon buckets. Guess the weight? 75 pounds of undercoating excluding the dust from wire wheeling. Now you know why Gordon Williams was so upset with the free undercoating Studebaker put on his race car. 100 pounds equals 1/10 of a second in the quarter mile. When you were running in NHRA classes back then, that was a ton of ET.
Studebaker was just too generous!!!
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