Racing this week end...Yes the 24 hrs of daytona.. James
Weaver is on the pole!!
Runing my slide throttles of course! Along with several
other sets there too... there will be quite a few cars there
making all the right noises!
Dave Dahlgren
FastmetalBDF@aol.com wrote:
>
> Dan, List : There is a special coming up on Saturday evening, Feb 17,
> on the History of Stock Car Racing ..... it will be on either the History
> Channel or the Discovery Channel ..... not sure at the moment, but I will
> find out . The previews I' ve seen show the early era when the flatheads,
> and early OHVs, too, would thunder down the paved road that was the
> southbound straightaway, broadslide thru the sand dune turn, and then
> stand on it on the smooth sand of the northbound leg, right next to the
> ocean surf, and again sliding, wallowing, and often flipping right over
> the embankment of the north turn ..... This was the famed Beach Course
> at Daytona in the years prior to 1959, when the high banked Speedway
> became the first of many super speedways to come .
> It looks like it will be a great program ...... not sure if it' s one or
> two hours ...... but eager to see those scenes from the early fifties,
> when our weekend thrills were at the paved short track "bullrings"
> that were so prevalent here in the Northeast !
> Yes ..... the SOUND was there for all of us to hear .....
> NO Borla or Lobak mufflers on the track then ..... just
> the SHEER SYMPHONY of thirty or forty V8s slugging it out
> lap after lap ..... RAPTURE on a hot summer night !!!
> Watch for this special ..... just over two weeks from now
> ..... documenting one part of our fantastic racing heritage !
>
> Bruce
> also recalling the SOUND of a full field of injected big blocks
> on the rampage ..... that came in the SIXTIES !!!
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