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Porsche and endurance racing...................it doesn't get much better than that !!!? Here is another great site for pictures: You can pick out a year and a particular race from that year to get awesome pictures from that race:https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo.html

Porsche and endurance racing...................it doesn't get much better than that !!!?

Looks a lot like my 1/18th scale Ertl die cast................nice job. Mine is a 1991 paint scheme.

Never heard of that model till now. You learn something everyday. https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/frugal-ford-1963-ford-300-sedan

Saw this on Hemmings today. Great old photo of different times.

What you guys forget was that NASCAR was dragged into all this back in 1980's when the manufacturers switched to front wheel drive on the majority of their cars. NOBODY was going to watch 4 cylinder or 6 cylinder production cars with plastic front and rear fascias race anywhere. They couldn't keep racing 1970's type cars because they were out of production and no manufacturer was going to back a series like that. The only rear wheel drive production cars back then were the 4 door luxury cars and that wasn't going to happen. They did what they had to do to keep the series afloat and by the 1990's Nascar racing reached it's peak. As far as engine technology goes I worked at Dodge Motorsports from 1966 to 2007. All the manufacturers had special built race engine parts made for their cars and a lot of those parts were not available to the public. When we at Dodge got back in 2001 we had to design and build an engine that was built to Nascar specs since none of our current V8's back then would work. Same thing when Toyota got back in. And as far as keeping costs down technology costs money. Back in the 1960's and early 1970's teams didn't have their own engine dynos or wind tunnels etc. They depended on the manufacturers to help them out. That has all changed now. And besides everybody is going to do what ever it takes to win no matter what series you run. Back in 1978 our goal at Dodge was 600 HP at 7200 RPM for the Daytona 500 and we made that goal. By 2012 when Nascar switched to fuel injection we were making over 900 HP at 9500 RPM still using the same displacement (355") and the same carburetor (Holley 4150). That extra 300 HP came from exotic materials in the valve train so the engine would spin higher, hours and hours of time on the air flow benches developing new intake and exhaust port configurations, and the same thing for camshaft development and dry sump oil systems. And gentlemen, all that development costs money. And he who has the most money wins. Look no further than Mercedes in Formula One. You want to talk about change in racing. Look no further than Top Fuel Dragsters. They don't run the quarter mile anymore.............they only run 1000 feet instead of 1320 feet. The engines make anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 HP depending whose numbers you believe. They run around 3 seconds and 340 mph in that 1000 feet. If they ran the whole quarter mile just think what their top speed would be! The sanctioning bodies are try to keep the cars and drivers safe and still make the racing competitive.

More Stepside pics: 1979 & 1980

1976 and 1977 and 1978 stepside brochures

Martin Truex said it had bigger tires, more gears and naturally it went faster. He also said there was still room for improvement. It certainly is a much better car for road courses with independent suspension too. And naturally there are more road course races next year. Which I like. Exhaust is split but NO H-Pipe. Single lug wheels and sequential gear box. Tires are 18" instead of 15". NO spec engine in Cup series.

Cars were 3 seconds faster on the road course than this years cars but were only running 650 HP engines instead of the 750 HP used this year. Cars sound like they are running 180 degree headers;

Truxmore car at Lemans 1976.

1971 interiors.........

You could have used Chrysler's first Hemi..........Inverted V-16, 2200 cubic inches, 2500 HP WW2 aircraft engine installed in a P-47 for testing purposes. War ended before going into production.

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/ford/f100/2266232.html

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/how-plastic-model-cars-stoked-interest-in-their-real-life-peers-and-vice-versa/?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20_October_21_Newsletter_NewDD

Real race cars have chrome steel bumpers?.

From the car brochure it looks like it goes on the outside.

Chrysler built 288" and 296" Pro-Stock drag engines in the 1977-1979 time frame for drag racing. I did the dyno development on those engines at the Tech Center. Don Glidden ran a Pro-Stock Plymouth Arrow back then. Ran the engines to 10,400 rpm. Also, had the 327" Indy car engine in 1969. See picture.

http://oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/ChryslerTrucksVans/1978_Trucks-Vans/1978_Dodge_Pickups/dirindex.html

http://oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Chevrolet/1957_Chevrolet/1957_Chevrolet_Stock_Car_Guide/dirindex.html