F.I.A. legal Chrysler

Big American luxury car as a road racer? that can't possibly work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWMIcra40s

 

Just excellent. Thanks for posting the link.

 

A couple of things that most impressed me were the brakes and original power steering, notice that the generator is driven off the back of the power steering pump.

 

Awesome.


Sent from my POS phone.

 

Wonderful, just wonderful. A big pld American luxury car laying waste to the little foreign thingees and to a Corvette too! Perfect...

 

great video. thanks for posting

 

The carbs appear to be the original type wcb getting those to work right must have been a trick.

 

The standard of driving in vintage racing can be somewhat variable, some guys are very very serious and some are just out for a Sunday drive. Same goes for car prep. That Chrysler's no doubt also benefiting from fifty years of development in (a**** other things) tires, brake lining material, and fluids. But it's fun to watch anyway. Love that clip at the end showing the fuel being "metered" through the carb in the Carousel - great bit of 'instrumentation'.

Go check out some of the clips of the '63-64 Galaxies that ran in the British and Australian saloon-car series back in the the day. Don't have time to go dig for links right now, maybe a bit later. They get run at Goodwood and other vintage race series over there as well; US vintage racing tends to have some elememt of "thou shalt not wrinkle thy compe***ion's sheetmetal" to it but the Brits are, shall we say, a little bit more free-form.

 

foolthrottle - Very cool! ... Thanks for sharing!

 

That Chrysler had a 4 speed it didn't have in the day too.

 

Unreal.I was REALLY hoping he was gonna gobble up the testa rosa before the video ended. Note the notched boosters, yea, I'd say theres some carb work been done!

 

Yea, ol' Jack sure gave the 3.8 jags something to think about!

 

The guy in the white Vette must have thought that big sum***** was Darth Vader behind him, LOL very cool video. Just this morning i watched a race from Goodwood where the Galaxies (both 63 i think) were the cl*** of the field. One broke, the other spanked the field. Who would've thunk it!

 

What a killer video, man is that beautiful Chrysler handling like a beauty. Those sport cars are thinking, what the hell!! Neat-o post man thanx ~sololobo~

 

I think I would give way too if I saw that much iron filling up the rear view mirror.

 

Yes, the four speed would be a sticking point for F.I.A. certification. Given the tork the hemi makes a three speed could work with the right rear gears.

 

Briggs Cunningham was putting those early Hemis in his sports cars with great on track success. Others were showing up in the Kurtis sports cars as well. They sure sound great.

 

I think the under trousers of the fellow in the vette reflected his paint job.

The jag driver certainly yielded nicely and courteously pointed the way to p***.

Looks like the Chrysler had a substantial tire advantage over the sporty cars.

 

As to tire size, the original 56 Chrysler race cars had a hole cut in the firewall so the driver could check tire wear during a race, it even had a small back up light installed so if the driver saw cord showing on the tire he knew it was time for a change. At about 4800 lbs. they wear out tires fast.

 

I wonder if it was a race, track day or drivers school.

 

Are you sure that was a 4 speed? It sounded like a 3 speed the way it was shifting or a super wide ratio 4.

 

Here's some stills of Mr. John L. Cooper's 1956 Chrysler 300 B vintage racecar:

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The car was built as a "tribute" to Carl Keikhaefer's NASCAR dominating Chrysler 300 B's... with a paint scheme similar to the "Flying Mile" 300 B:

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foolthrottle -

I'm not positive ... but I would guess that it was during one of the Cl***ic Sports Racing Group's events held @ Infineon ... I recognize several CSRG member cars.

 

I'm glad these cars are getting some acceptance, I know when I first started more than a few club racers would have had me ejected from the track and banned for life if it were in their power to do so. I'm sure more than a few people have asked this guy what part of Colorado he's from. The real pioneer in all this is Ivan Z. and his Hudson. he set a really high standard with that car and of course the boy can drive.

 

some people actually like these cars?

 

3 speed w/ OD?

 

I'm counting four shifts in the video, maybe he's got a three speed with a gear vender. What ever he's got its working.

 

http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=17013
Heres more about the car and it is a 4 speed.

 

The 4 speed would not be F.I.A. LEGAL ( vehicle may have no part not fitted to a like vehicle of the same make, model, and year, as raced that year) the Batwing aircleaner although real neat, disregards the fact that Kiekhafer pioneered paper air filters for race cars, but all that can't take anything away from such a cool machine. find more info about similar cars at www.mexicanroadracecars.com

 

Sweet!!!