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03-28-2014, 10:12 AM
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v/s "battles" years ago.....
I was looking at the v/s section in the photo gallery....
.Just how competitve was the Studebaker...against the 135hp Olds? Anybody remember? Could the Olds....run again...in today's Stock Elim? Just asking...... |
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03-28-2014, 11:10 AM
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Re: v/s "battles" years ago.....
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03-28-2014, 05:25 PM
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Re: v/s "battles" years ago.....
I would say that the Olds and Studebaker were equally competitive.....The last record holder standing when NHRA sent us to the scrapyard was Dempsey Hardy`s 54 Studebaker.......The team of Weeks, Hardy and Dinsmore from Florida and their famed Crockagator had the record at 15.50 or so.....The quickest my 50 olds could go was 15.65....Keith Berg`s 50 Olds was about a tenth faster than mine........Those were the days..............
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03-29-2014, 10:08 PM
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Re: v/s "battles" years ago.....
Hard to believe that no one ever noticed the springs on the studs holding the carburetor on the manifold of that Studebaker
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03-30-2014, 01:46 AM
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Technically, that wasn't illegal back then..
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03-30-2014, 12:32 PM
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Re: v/s "battles" years ago.....
Even if the linkage binded out and lifted the front of the carb up to make a good size vacuum leak ? I guess it could have been before NHRA started checking for the leaks. Years later he showed me a 280 hydro with a 273 2 barrel that had just set the indoor Orange Bowl regatta record, same deal. Im not putting the man down , I loved being around him and hearing his old stories, he was one sharp cookie. To me he was sort of drag racings Smokey Yunick, way ahead of his time
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