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Post by Buck on Nov 6, 2018 14:30:11 GMT -8
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Post by Buck on Nov 7, 2018 19:04:39 GMT -8
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Post by Codfish on Nov 8, 2018 14:50:25 GMT -8
^ I suspect Robin considered that to be "appropriate" dress...
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Post by truenorth on Nov 14, 2018 7:30:16 GMT -8
Peter DeLorenzo: Indianapolis, May '64. Bobby Johns in the No. 47 Hurst Floor Shift Special Offy "capsule car" designed by Smokey Yunick. Severely handicapped by production Pontiac drum brakes and suspension in the front, Johns crashed the ill-handling machine in qual. and didn't make the start.
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Post by Buck on Nov 14, 2018 8:28:58 GMT -8
^I saw the car about three weeks ago in the museum basement...
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Post by truenorth on Nov 14, 2018 9:46:11 GMT -8
^I saw the car about three weeks ago in the museum basement... So far out of the box, there's no box. Smokey rules... oh wait... Smokey was never good with rules.
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Post by Buck on Nov 14, 2018 10:03:05 GMT -8
I think he was the one to put Junior Johnson in a caged Indy car...
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Post by truenorth on Nov 14, 2018 20:56:31 GMT -8
I tried reading his autobiography and it was fascinating until about half way when I just gave up on the poor spelling, lack of grammar, and constant swearing. I was warned but I thought I could get through it but I had to put it down. It was too bad because he did some really amazing actions.
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Post by Buck on Nov 15, 2018 14:39:28 GMT -8
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Post by Spin on Nov 15, 2018 20:22:28 GMT -8
^I saw the car about three weeks ago in the museum basement... So far out of the box, there's no box. Smokey rules... oh wait... Smokey was never good with rules. Smokey never broke the rules. He did things that weren't covered in the rules. There was no rule that said you couldn't coil your fuel line and carry an extra five gallons of gas. Cheating is breaking the rules. If there is no rule (yet), that's innovating. He came up with the offset chassis that is still used in super late models and outlaw late models. Within the rules, of course. He was probably responsible for more than half of the NASCAR and Indycar rule books in the day,
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Post by truenorth on Nov 16, 2018 15:13:25 GMT -8
McLarenAuto wins the Indy500 in May 1976 IMS with Johnny Rutherford.
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Post by se on Nov 16, 2018 18:28:05 GMT -8
McLarenAuto wins the Indy500 in May 1976 IMS with Johnny Rutherford. 1974 McLaren. Those wings were massive and deeply concaved. Without ground effects, it's all they had.
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Post by truenorth on Nov 19, 2018 15:43:46 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Nov 20, 2018 20:26:48 GMT -8
Indy '64. Dave MacDonald in Mickey Thompson's No. 84 Sears Allstate Special. Drivers who tried it called it "diabolical" and an evil handling nightmare, but MacDonald persisted. Jim Clark warned him to step out of the ride. MacDonald lost it on Lap 2 and he and Eddie Sachs died.
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Post by se on Nov 21, 2018 15:23:33 GMT -8
Indy '64. Dave MacDonald in Mickey Thompson's No. 84 Sears Allstate Special. Drivers who tried it called it "diabolical" and an evil handling nightmare, but MacDonald persisted. Jim Clark warned him to step out of the ride. MacDonald lost it on Lap 2 and he and Eddie Sachs died. what made it diabolical?
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Post by Buck on Nov 21, 2018 17:18:16 GMT -8
They made Mickey run a larger tire size which made the cars unstable...
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Post by truenorth on Nov 25, 2018 9:23:11 GMT -8
A shot before the start of the Indianapolis 500, 1919. This was the first Indianapolis after the two year pause during the Great War.
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Post by Spin on Nov 26, 2018 4:35:40 GMT -8
^ is that AJ in the third row?
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Post by se on Nov 27, 2018 3:41:36 GMT -8
They made Mickey run a larger tire size which made the cars unstable... Larger in tread width... as in more contact patch? And that makes for instability? Gee... look at car tires from 1963 through 1973 and tell me if they got narrower or skinnier, slower or faster.
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Post by Buck on Nov 27, 2018 8:27:29 GMT -8
They made Mickey run a larger tire size which made the cars unstable... Larger in tread width... as in more contact patch? And that makes for instability? Gee... look at car tires from 1963 through 1973 and tell me if they got narrower or skinnier, slower or faster. No, larger in diameter. The cars were designed to run 12 inch tires and the fenders originally covered both front tires. USAC made them run 15 inch tires and they had to cut the fenders so the tires could fit. That is what allowed the cars to "float" through the turns which is what happened to McDonald.
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