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    Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs

    The 1962 Plymouths Deliver A Kick In The Teeth, Frankie Fontaine Weeps

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    08/16/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs
    Coolness UDMan! Know of anywhere that has video/film of these races? The persh.org link isn't working for me, but that may be all at my end... Thanks!
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    Image of TurboBrick [LIGIER] TurboBrick [LIGIER]
    08/15/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs
    So that's why they had the Hyper-Pak option! I had no idea about Volvo participating, looks like they were PV's and not Amazons, though.
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    Image of Ralph Wiley Is Poised Ralph Wiley Is Poised
    08/15/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs
    I wish I had a Holman Moody prepared Studebaker.
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    08/15/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs
    Chrysler seriously needs to resurrect the Plymouth Valiant.
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    08/15/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs

    I wish Murilee posted these images, so I will.
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    08/15/09


    @UDMan:
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    08/15/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs
    It's the Three Mopars of the Apocalypse! Run for your life!
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    08/15/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs
    As an alternative to crushing them, this would have been a highly fitting (and very jalop-friendly) use for all those CARS victims. Imagine that poor C4 'vette, the Maserati BiTurbo, and the Mercedes 380 all out there trading paint! Toss in a few Durangos and Exploders for comedic value.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/15/09

    @mechimike: And we call it Lemons.
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    08/15/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: That's what Jay Lamm shoudl have done- created another LeMons class for vehicles under $4500.
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    08/15/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs
    Wow...holy body roll there, Batman! Damn this looks like fun. OK, I'll say it- why isn't NASCAR doing this today? They were so attuned to the public sensibilities abck in the 1960's, but 4 cylinders are all the rage now. I'd love to see me some Focus on Cobalt action! Throw in some volvos, hondas, Mazdas...

    A lot of the dirt tracks around here are wising up, realizing the old RWD beasts they like to thrash around are drying up and getting pricey. So they're running 4-cyl classes now. 2.3 Mustangs mostly, but they're starting a FWD class, too. I'd love to enter the Tunachucker Volvo in one of these races. If it holds together for the LeMons South race (God Willing) we may just do that.
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    08/15/09

    @mechimike: They used to ... they ran the Dash series for four-cylinder "sedans" that were actually scaled down tube-framed racers similar to their Cup counterparts through the '70s, '80s and '90s.

    NASCAR eliminated the series due to a lack of interest, but there are still a lot of those cars running in various short-track events throughout the Southeast.
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    08/15/09

    @mechimike: I run a 4cyl 1985 Reliant K-car @ my local 1/2mile dirt track. It's great. My initial investment was less than $300... most of it in required saftey stuff.
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    08/15/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs
    /6 FTW! I ran mine with the oil lamp burning for a week and it didn't hurt it. It only topped out at 115mph though. I wrote "HEMI" on the back window with shoe polish and took it to the strip. It ran a 20.20 at 68mph making it the slowest vehicle I have ever raced to date. I have since added two cylinders and almost cut the E.T. in half.
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    08/15/09

    In reply to Got Six Cylinders And Uses Them All: NASCAR's Falcons, Valiants, and Corvairs
    Frightening to behold. Probably even more frightening to drive.
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    08/15/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Damn those are some ugly looking cars! And I still love them!
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    01/26/09

    In reply to The 1962 Plymouths Deliver A Kick In The Teeth, Frankie Fontaine Weeps
    A bloke around where I grew up had three late 50's Plymouth Furys. The same model that appeared in Christine the movie. Now one of these Furys (or is that Furies?) being seen in Sydney is rare but three? One of them was right-hand-drive and he used it as a daily driver. And I used to buy weed off his son.
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    01/26/09

    In reply to The 1962 Plymouths Deliver A Kick In The Teeth, Frankie Fontaine Weeps
    Stan Freeberg based his Pete Puma voice on that of Frank Fontaine. Mostly from the Crazy Guggenheim character he played on the Jackie Gleason show. Man that '60 BG music was annoying, reminded me of the music from Gumby.
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    01/26/09

    @graverobber: Philip Landrigan Edition: And how many lumps would you like with that?
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    01/26/09

    @SCROGGZILLA RAIDS AGAIN!!: I'm drinking COFFEE, Heee-eeeee.
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    01/26/09

    In reply to The 1962 Plymouths Deliver A Kick In The Teeth, Frankie Fontaine Weeps
    Good thing it didn't come with a "man step" or heated steering wheel...two year old Howie Long would've sh*t himself
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    01/26/09

    In reply to The 1962 Plymouths Deliver A Kick In The Teeth, Frankie Fontaine Weeps
    Notice how in a 4 minute commercial, the vehicle being sold is only on screen for 5 seconds?


    That's because they looked like '62 Plymouths!


    And I say that as a lifelong Mopar guy.


    And the shame of it that no one could get past the styling. I couldn't have-had I been buying a car in 1962, I would have had a nifty bubbletop Chevy with a 409 truck engine and a 4-speed. But under that styling was fantastic suspension (same suspension, short of stiffer torsion bars and sway bars as a later Charger R/T, GTX, etc.), unibody construction, the fantastic B/RB engines, etc.

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    01/26/09

    In reply to The 1962 Plymouths Deliver A Kick In The Teeth, Frankie Fontaine Weeps
    I gotta start bringing my laptop to work, until then, once again, I live vicariously.
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