Enzo’s Revenge, The 1967 24 Hours of Daytona victory formation.

 

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Daytona Beach 1954.

 Guido and Mario Levetto posing in a Ferrari 340 America (serial #0120A).

 Car was owned by Jim Kimberly and was driven at the meet by Jack Rutherford

It set a sportscar speed record in the mile for a two way average of 136.03 mph

Guido is said to have served as translator for the France family and the Italian teams that came to Daytona.

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a Charger GLH-S is on Facebook Marketplace from Oceanside Ca (an hour North of San Diego) for 3500

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I just love this part of a bigger photo... I had to slice off the water marked area. Then I learned how important the car in the watermarked area was... a Super Duty 421 Tempest at the Daytona 2nd Continental Race, a 250-miler.

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at the race when the all-aluminum 427 Mystery Motor made its advent within a pair of Mickey Thompson 1963 Corvette Z06s, this barely noticed Pontiac made an astonishing debut

The Chevy 427 big-block—the first of its breed, was out to punch the automotive world in the proverbial nose— but there was this Pontiac to get around.

And the Pontiac was hustling around the track and lapping everyone, including one poor Ferrari eight times. 

Others were lapped multiple times, too. Even the second place finisher, the legendary A.J. Foyt would succumb, he was 2 laps down

Instead of Chevy introducing the world to a victory with the Mystery Motor, the best they could do this day was to come in second.

But then... the SD Tempest disappeared. 

The Pontiac was sent back to the shop in Indiana and sat for a short time before reportedly being purchased by Mercedes-Benz, who promptly shipped it back to Germany and completely disassembled every nut and bolt for a “competitive” inspection. The car has never been seen again and is listed by most hard-core SD experts as “destroyed.”

https://www.motortrend.com/features/1812-pontiac-tempest-bested-427-corvette-1963

In  1963, Pontiac built 12 lightweight Super Duty Tempests, six station wagons, and six LeMans coupes to assault the 'strips—which they all did, with the exception of one coupe.

It was plucked for the first ever NASCAR Challenge Cup (above race)

https://www.hotrod.com/features/1963-pontiac-lemans-wins-the-nascar-challenge-cup

rare to see a Daytona Charger in rush hour traffic

This 82–83 Daytona was part of a collaboration between Dodge and PPG, and it served as a pace car for the Indy Car World Series for 1983 and 1984 as well as a concept car for the forthcoming Dodge Daytona Turbo Z.

a one-off steel-bodied exterior that was finished in 21 coats of blue PPG paint with white and orange accents.

Following its duties as an Indy pace car, the Dodge was then modified for use in land-speed-record attempts and set an average lap speed of 173.222 mph over two 15-mile runs at Goodyear’s test track in Texas in 1984 and also achieved trap speeds in excess of 178 mph.

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then there was the time a trucker won a Daytona

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Shelby Daytona, I wonder if any of these race cars still exist

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Dale Earnhardt in 1990 on Dave's Top Ten list, "why it took 20 years to win the Daytona 500" Thanks Mike!

two trucks ran in the beach trials at Daytona in 1956, one was Smokey Yunick's

 

 the Ford, 

below, the Cameo in 56, only got to 116

But the next year, a 57 Chev truck went 132 with Yunick's help  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/03/smokeys-duct-tape-aero-enhancement-on.html

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cool tribute Daytona... but really undersized tires

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aero warriors, sure would be cool if nascar had a media outlet where those who wish, could watch races from the 60s

 

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great way to display a car using it's colors as background

 

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the Joe Dirt Daytona was at SEMA in the Aces fuel injection booth... and the only thing about it that didn't make it into the movie, but should have for it's comedic effect, is the car cover. It's also Hollywood fake filthy

by the way, the Cragars aren't on all 4 corners, the drivers side front has some generic spare on a steel rim

I love this, they installed an 8 track into the Daytona. I hate the steering wheel... it makes no sense to have a chain wheel in a Daytona. A kook with a Daytona that wanted to make it redneck would not go chain, they'd got with a Tuff wheel from the Mopar option for a Barracuda, or a Grant 3 spoke, maybe a Momo Prototipo

Red Lobster at Daytona 1983

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oh shit! Race car in the drink! Bay Darnell spun and ended up in Lake Lloyd during a qualifying race for the 1964 ARCA 250 @ Daytona.

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Daytona and a tourist bus pulled by a Jeep? Thank you John S!

pictures are coming in from Goodwood to make facebook a good look at what's going on over there

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Well, this causes me to realize I don't know how to spot the differences of a Bird from a Daytona at a head on look like this. 

there are so few original owner muscle cars anymore, I'm shocked to find this Daytona's original owner is still alive

great choice of rims too

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