You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

1964 WinterNationals - (2) 427 Lightweight Galaxies. Ford continued their 427 LW Galaxie program in 1964 just in case NHRA disallowed the Thunderbolt

[Lee Stewart]

This 1968 GTO ad ran in magazines for just one month. The reason was it promoted street racing and Pontiac pulled it after being read the "riot act" about agressively promoting an illegal sport.

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

1970 Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida

[big gear head]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

1970 SS 396 El Camino with standard G70x14 WSW FGB tires

Looks like a radial tire, or is that what FGB means?

[big gear head]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

The Detroit Locker in my Camaro is from a '69 Mach 1. I guess Ford is the only manufacturer that installed them.

[Lee Stewart]

[flyingn]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

Rick Mahoney's Judge

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

Originally the Pontiac RAIV 400 did not get it's name from a sequence of RAII then RAIII. Initially Pontiac engineers wanted to offer real ram air for the 1969 GTO. So they "borrowed" a page from the Olds engineers with their 1967 W30 RA setup and went one better.

The proposed RA setup was to have two outlets behind the front grille and in addition, the two hood scoops. 2 + 2 = 4. . . RAIV. But in the interim, they beefed up the 400 a little and called it a RAIII. When the 4 inlet RA setup was not approved, then it became part of the sequence. If it had been approved, there would not have been a RAIII.

I tried a similar arrangement for Chevy pickups during my stint in vehicle development.

It didn't work.

We couldn't figure out why, until we "smoked it" in the aero chamber. The air was going in the outboard side of the inlet and then coming right back out the inboard side of the inlet, without going into the ductwork.

Aero is sometimes very non-intuitive, which led me to state "...you never know until you smoke it".

K

[Lee Stewart]

Sculpture House, California