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03-17-2024, 5:43am | #1 | ||||||
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Corvette was crying--Pontiac you need to stop doing this
Back when corvette was crying 😢 like a baby 👶, ,, "Pontiac you need to stop doing this, you're making us look bad.
Pontiac Power - This is Paul Goldsmith's 1963 LeMans 421SD that won the 250 mile American Challenge Cup race at Daytona. The field consisted of Ferrari 250 GTOs, Chevrolet Corvettes, Porsche 356B Carreras, and few other European exotics from Lotus, Maserati, and Alpha Romeo (failed to qualify). Unknown to race fans at the time, the first two positions on the grid were 427-powered Corvettes, the first "Mystery Motors" to see action. At the start, Goldsmith's 1963 LeMans, running in a field of 2-seat sports cars, looked more like a pace car than a race car. On a damp track, the 421SD-powered LeMans won the race by 5 miles over its nearest competitor. The third photo shows Goldsmith passing a couple Corvettes, one of them (#17) was A.J. Foyt. |
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Here's the top 10 List for the Race - The SD Pontiac lapped a 427 Vette 6 times and a Ferrari 8 times etc. - no excuses 😉🏆😎👍
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Cool pics and info. Weird that an SCCA event utilized the trioval and stayed off the road course.
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Led every lap and won $6,500.
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It wasnt anything special. Just a solid car following solid a build. It really isnt as big as modern cars, as far as weight.
Cool though.. |
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My first wife had a '66 LeMans vert, maroon on white. No pix!
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I was just curious what a car like that would go for and ran across this article. Some people get lucky.
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I've got a '67 in maroon and white, and a '66 in red on red, but they're GTO's.
That '66 and '67 'coke bottle' body style was (and is) very attractive, IMO. |
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Thinking back, the "LeMans" was actually the pricier Tempest, right? |
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From around '60-'62 when the Corvairs came out (had a '61) Chevy IIs (had two) Cutlass (had a '63) Falcons (Dad had a '63) Valiants, Darts, yadda yadda, I remember the Tempest from around that era also, small ugly little car and it was similarly sized -- all designed for economy. Maybe gas shot up from 21¢ per gallon to 23¢ or something and scared everybody. This is why my '70 Roadrunner had a Belvedere owner's manual in the glovebox, because that's what they were built from -- back in the day when manuals were only about 30 pages long and nobody ever really needed them. And as things always go, the economy cars got bigger, the engines got bigger, and some turned into the early muscle cars. |
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The NASCAR '63 Tempests and NHRA Tempests had 421 engines, conventional T-10 four speed transmissions, and were converted to a solid rear axle. A very odd duck, indeed, and as stated earlier, very light weight. |
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A friend of the family had a Tempest rag top for sail cheap. I need wheels fast so bought it. That little thing had the auto trans stick on the dash. Car was powered by the mighty cut in half 389 V8 Looking at the power plant from one side it looked very impressive, from the other it was more like a WTF is that! |
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Movie misnomer. The '64 Skylark, as well as Tempest/Lemans, Chevelle, and Cutlass were all on the all-new A-body platform. The '63's were totally different, smaller cars.
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Weird little cars. Fun fact: the Trophy 4 engine has no oil filter. Solid old CA car here, though, strange as it is.
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