I bet you can spot it easily.
Fortunately for me, I'm the writer, photographer, editor, and publisher of this little ol blog, and not getting paid. When I screw up, I have the freedom to say "you didn't have to pay for that mistake, how's that?"
I bet you can spot it easily.
Fortunately for me, I'm the writer, photographer, editor, and publisher of this little ol blog, and not getting paid. When I screw up, I have the freedom to say "you didn't have to pay for that mistake, how's that?"
I'm thinking that a "purpose built" drag racer would delete the windshield wipers, headlights and bumpers. Also wouldn't
ReplyDelete'steelies" be lighter than Cragar SS wheels. That is a street legal car with larger rear tires.
You're unfamiliar with the Hurst Super Stock cars, they had to be street legal, so, windshield wipers, headlights and bumpers. NHRA rules required stuff for each class of racing, and that "stock" would likely state no deleting factory equipement without a replacement of equal ability to perform the part's designed use. and there was a marketing arrangement with Cragar, plus, they simply needed to have good looking rims for sales. The A12 Bee and Road Runner proved that the stock steel boring painted rims were too ugly. Would they be lighter? A google search might answer that, I can't tell you accurately what a steel AMC 14" rim weighed, or, what a Cragar SS in 14 or 15" weighed.
DeleteThis, and the other Hurst prepped super stocks, like the Dart and Hemi Cuda, were all real race cars. For that year. Some got lexan side windows (Cuda and Dart as I recall) instead of glass, pull straps instead of window cranks and maybe these AMXs didn't get that focused on winning, but, they were legit.
The wipers could easily be pulled off at the drag strip, ditto better race rims (if they existed, a LOT of racers used Cragars) and I don't think anyone bothered deleting headlights until they went to funny car fiberglass hinge top funnies with airbrushed headlights, I think even the A/FXers had real headlights
it just occurred to me, even the current "purpose built" drag racers, like the Hellcats, Demons, GT 500s, COPO Camaros, etc have regular car interiors, wipers, air conditioning, 12 speakers, back up cameras... all that stuff
Deleteand those are what, 9 second cars? That's about 2 or 3 seconds faster than Grumpy Jenkins or Dick Landy were going in their full race crazy cars.
Delete