Article on George Williams

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by mopar68

Whoa! That is light and that is heavy $! Those 1971 B-bodies w/HEMI hovered around the 3900 lbs. mark in stock form. Remove the street stuff, etc. and I can see maybe 3400-3500 lbs. but 3000 lbs. is a freak!



I don't blame you; I'd do the same. I didn't know acid porting went that far back.

M68

Don't kid yourself.
A prominent Div 3 engine builder from back in the day, relayed the story to me, a few years ago, about how the cylinder heads were done on a late 60's World Champion Mopar.

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Don't kid yourself.
A prominent Div 3 engine builder from back in the day, relayed the story to me, a few years ago, about how the cylinder heads were done on a late 60's World Champion Mopar.

Without naming the driver/team or car, was it a Dodge or Plymouth?

M68

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by art leong

The 71 Charger was an original Hemi car And had quite a past. We could never get a straight answer about that car from the Chrysler guys. But it was less than 3000 pounds with a steel headed hemi. And no baggage.
That car grossed over $100,000 street racing.

Looks to me like that is Ray behind the wheel.

More here:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/g...cussionid=1202

M68

[art leong]

Originally Posted by mopar68

Looks to me like that is Ray behind the wheel.

More here:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/g...cussionid=1202

M68

That was Ray and I'm holding the car You can tell it's winter by the coat I'm wearing.
That article originally printed in 1979, prompted Wally Parks to have a talk with us. It was probably the last time Tex (Ray) drove a street race.

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by art leong

That was Ray and I'm holding the car You can tell it's winter by the coat I'm wearing.
That article originally printed in 1979, prompted Wally Parks to have a talk with us. It was probably the last time Tex (Ray) drove a street race.

Artie,

That was my intitial thought (it was you).

M68

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by art leong

The 71 Charger was an original Hemi car And had quite a past. We could never get a straight answer about that car from the Chrysler guys. But it was less than 3000 pounds with a steel headed hemi. And no baggage.
That car grossed over $100,000 street racing.

NHRA never factored our combo It was always 440 hp. We quit because of the acid ported heads. It was use them or get outrun, or quit We chose to quit.

Here ya go, Artie. I'm pretty sure this photo is from a 1974 issue of Raceway News...



M68

P.S. That's a pretty damn wide rear tire. What's it, like a N50 x 15?

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by mopar68

Here ya go, Artie. I'm pretty sure this photo is from a 1974 issue of Raceway News...



M68

P.S. That's a pretty damn wide rear tire. What's it, like a N50 x 15?

No, probably the old M&H street slicks. My partner and I had a pair on his old 67 Camaro (which we street raced). Those things were about 11-11.5 inches wide. All they were was a slick with tread grooves etched into them. I don't remember when NHRA opened the class to allow slicks. For a time, you had to run a "street" tire, these skirted that rule.

[mopar68]

Thanks for the info, Robert.

Well, Artie, is he correct?

If I recall correctly, post-1971 Stock Eliminator rules allowed you to run any width (threaded) tire you could stuff into the rear wheel housing without ANY modifications to the inner/outer wheel house and quarter panel.

Bona fide drag slicks were (again) legal to use in Stock by 1975.

M68