I'm a Wagon and Sedan Delivery kind of guy, so this photo really gets my attention. I'd like to have a Wagon like this for a daily driver! It was a great time! I am Butch/56sedandelivery
Interesting point about the surviving doors car is that this body with the factory paint job, replaced the original 68 car that was wrecked in a towing accident. Picture must be late in the 68 season , at Island Dragway, Great Meadows, N.J.
Pretty sure that was taken at New England Dragway. Pictures of the earlier car( this is the one I remember seeing) .
Looks like a couple of those Galaxies Tommyd posted a couple pages back are running Traction Masters. Anyone have any experience with them? I'd like to run a set of these on our Galaxie if they work. Look more period correct than Caltracs. When did ******* bars make their apperance? Kevin
Traction Masters were effective at eliminating the aggravating and destructive effects of "wheel hop" by converting the front half of the leaf spring from a "spring" to a solid bar with predictable effects on the ride quality of a street machine. They were ineffective at promoting ch***is "lift" since they incorporated fixed mounting points, both under the axle and at the front of the spring. I first became aware of "******* bars" in late 1968 but I suspect that they had been around for a couple of years before that. I remember seeing a set of Lakewood bars in use on a car in the spring of 1969 at an eighth-mile track at Beardstown, Illinois but that couldn't have been an early adaptation. I'd been out of the loop for over a year at that point due to a stint in graduate school.
Like Baron,I have run them on an early Mustang,and with a hot street 302 and a set of M/T 26x10.5-15" ET Street cheater slicks,you could leave at 6200rpm,and get zero tire spin.It would just drag the motor down Scott
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