As the popularity of performance cars grew in the early 1960s, Detroit automakers started battling for supremacy at the drag strip with factory specials. The cars looked like common street vehicles, but they came with drag-prepped upgrades under the shell. It's around this time that Ed Miller became a drag racing legend.
representative gossart was promising a blanket pardon. we don t know what the motivations are of that source and the like when they said that kind of thing, so we need to find all that out. yes, i agree with you, ari. the general theory is the piece of reporting contains more and more. lots of people were involved in this. the list grows all the time. it s kind of like trying to plan a wedding. like if we invite representative gossart, then we have to invite mopar and then others will have to come. i did not quote rolling stone in our top lead story tonight, because it has some interesting points that nbc news
Quarter-Mile Coronet: 1965 Dodge Super Stock Is Mopar Drag Racing Goodness 17 Mar 2021, 14:04 UTC ·
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The 1960s are considered to be the glory days of drag racing, where everything was raw. Darin Smith of DWS Classics in Huntington Beach wanted to capture some of that magic in his personal project, a replica of the 1965 Dodge Coronet 440 Super Stock. 10 photos
Just one quick look at this beast tells you it s built differently from the usual muscle car restomods. It s made to go fast down the quarter-mile as it would have in the 1960s, not handle like a sports car. That said, it s not fully old-school, as under the Coronet 440 s hood is a Mopar Performance 472 crate engine, which is essentially a stroked and bored out 426 Hemi.