The one, The only 1967 IPC - Page 2

70 copo · #11 03-26-2022, 07:23 PM

Here Chevrolet Brass are soaking it up on a parade lap prior to one of the 2 separate race starts. The guy in the back seat was filming footage for the Chevrolet "Old Brickyard" film.

That's right, this specific car paced the race on two separate days at the start of the race Tuesday May 30 and Wednesday May 31, 1967.

70 copo · #12 03-26-2022, 07:26 PM

Here is the Chevrolet "Old Brickyard" film.

Pace car action starts 2 minutes in... .

**olredalert** · #13 03-26-2022, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by 70 copo

Here Chevrolet Brass are soaking it up on a parade lap prior to one of the 2 separate race starts. The guy in the back seat was filming footage for the Chevrolet "Old Brickyard" film.

That's right, this specific car paced the race on two separate days at the start of the race Tuesday May 30 and Wednesday May 31, 1967.

----It looks like someone touched up the Firestone letters with gold paint,,,cool!.....Bill S

70 copo · #14 03-26-2022, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by olredalert

----It looks like someone touched up the Firestone letters with gold paint,,,cool!.....Bill S

That’s right!

Firestone and Goodyear were used by the entire commitment fleet on roughly a 50/50 basis. Wide ovals and Speedway’s. The Firestone guys wipped out white crayons and had bragging rights.

70 copo · #15 03-26-2022, 09:32 PM

Behind the scenes raged the tire wars.... and the manufacturer's wars as well. Locking gas caps were needed as well as hood locks. Tampering with the pace car was a real concern to Chevrolet.

70 copo · #16 03-26-2022, 09:41 PM

Same view today.

**Charley Lillard** · #17 03-27-2022, 02:19 AM

Those were gold letter tires. Here is the unused spare.

**TimG** · #18 03-27-2022, 12:49 PM

That was a great video.

**1967Z28** · #19 03-27-2022, 01:24 PM

The Firestone racing tires in '67 had gold letters and a gold pinstripe.

70 copo · #20 03-27-2022, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Charley Lillard

Those were gold letter tires. Here is the unused spare.

The tires were always a mystery. We assumed that the engineering rebuild order would have specified a tire swap, so when we interviewed Dave Welday he gave us the opinion that the tires were simply crayon marked because the engineering rebuild order would have had a an approved tire substitution for track use directly from Chevrolet engineering-- But as we can see that's exactly what happened going from D all the way to E, the label on the spare shows that the tires were sourced locally from a tire dealer in Speedway Indiana...

Now looking at the comparisons look at the size difference on the sidewall size from #92 to the tires used on the rest of the firestone equipped cars...that's exactly what happened. Thanks Charley

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