Daytona - When men were men............

[thumpar]

I know I sure as hell wouldn't want to go 200 mph in my 68 Charger! Though I have buried the speedo needle! But that's when I was young and bulletproof! These days I just like to smoke the tires when at a light next to one of those foreign tuners!

I blow the tuners away even in my Yukon. It is funny.

 

[staydry]

restrictor plate engines are probably closer to about 700hp (just a guess there).

Actually the plate motors only generate 450 hp

 

[82rude]

boatman37.BUDDY BAKER was first to go over 200 at dega in a Charger Daytona,RUSTY WALLACE holds the record for fastest circuit at 216mph in the 80,s .An to think I cheaped out in 76 from buying a 440 sixpac bird for 4400 bucks,doh!A guy just down the road from me had 2 ,one a clone and one the real deal.

 

[boatman37]

rusty unofficially went 228 in 2004 or so. i guess it was a test or something for nascar.

http://www.caranddriver.com/news/rusty-runs-unrestricted-car-news

 

[82rude]

Im currently reading an interesting article about the aero cars of the 70,s .In actual fact the Torino Talladega,and the Mercs were actually faster than the birds but the birds had a aero advantage in the corners in effect negating the 40 to 50 hp advantage that the boss 429 had over the 426 hemi.Its too bad the king cobra never made it to the track to take on the birds but that's life.Another car I loved was Allison's Matador of the mid 70,s though it only won 4 races it was still was nice to see AMC take on the big boys and actually be competitive ..