60's Musclecar Era - Lightweights and Experimentals

[Steve Shauger]

This is a great article that summarizes the scope of purpose-built factory race cars the big three built to win, from factory lightweights to experimental classes. Although this continues today, it's nothing like what was produce in the 60's with virtually no regulation. It was like the wild west with no holds barred. Today's technology can't be beat but what was achieved in the 60's without high tech computing is remarkable and was possible due the brilliant minds/engineering teams who designed them.

[69hurstSC]

We had a lot of fun putting this one together. There were lots of people we found with singular photos of less popular, but highly significant cars. It turned out great.



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[442w30]

At the time, that was one of the least interesting MCR issues to me.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 442w30

At the time, that was one of the least interesting MCR issues to me.

Too funny - it's my favorite and I still have my hard copy.

K

[442w30]

I still have all the issues, including this one, but I simply didn't care for race cars when I was 15. But it was my first exposure that my local Pontiac dealership sponsored racing in the 1960s.

[Keith Seymore]

This car –




Got dinged up -





so they removed the front end from this car –





To fix it, because the last set of aluminum in the warehouse got used to build this car:

[Keith Seymore]

Dad's GTO got a little bit of a mention here:

[Keith Seymore]

And here -

[Keith Seymore]

Pete Seaton's '63 SD lightweight (far lane):

[Keith Seymore]

Remarkable amount of engineering going on here: