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Originally Posted by Casey Miles
Art, did you tell them about the spare tire with the cable wrapped around in it weighing over 300 lbs and the tech guy asking you guys to take it out so that they can weigh it. You told them that there wasn't anyone on the grounds that could lift it and that you needed a cherry picker to get it out!
Also about going to Indy with enough money to get there but not enough to get home. You and Tex won the race that year, got money to get home. As Jimmy Mouller would put it "Mopar Morons"! Him and Mike Magistro where a pair of them also.
We didn't know it back then, but they were some great times to be remembered now.
Casey Miles
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Casey That spare tire info is as accurate as Moby Dick is a whaling documentary.
The real story is the tire was off a big ford (same bolt pattern) And it weighed 50 pounds (without the wire)
The limit a spare could weigh was 85 pounds so I wound 30 pounds of wire cable around the wheel. then put a tube in the tire to keep the cable from rattling. The splinters on the cable puntured the tube allowing the cable to move. We went to bowling green The "creep" tech guy Joe from canada (he was after us bigtime).teched the car he asked us to lossen the spare tire. He picked it up no problems at the time. (evidently he heard the rattle) He let us through. We raced the class went to teardown passed the motor, wheelbase, overhang etc. Then the creep comes over and asks us to pull the spare tire. I knew it was 80 pounds so I pulled it when I put it down it clunked. The was the end of the story. Tex and a few others carried me to the truck and locked me in it. I was going to make sure the guy never teched another car.
We were poor racers that could not afford 50 pound rims for a spare tire, like many others did. It was cheating but not to gain an advantage it was to keep up with what everyone was already doing.
The challenger really wasn't that light. Every part on the car was as thick as it was when it rolled down the assembly line. The charger on the other hand was a feather weight, that car had 6 steel hemi heads in it and only 2 were bolted to the motor.
And also the real muffler story was each resonator had 20 pounds of lead in it.Also caught by "joe"
Gregg X himself knew we got screwed, but there was nothing he could do about it. He often commented about his ability to sit on out fenders, something that could not be done to a lot of others stockers at the time.