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Randy B.
Joined: 10 Jan 2019 Posts: 4 Location: Bellevue, NE
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:07 pm Post subject: Andretti Fairlane |
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I just wanted to verify but was Mario's Daytona 500 winning Fairlane a 1966 model or a 1967 model with a 1966 bumper/grille.
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C5HM
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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That car carried H&M VIN number C7HM 10098. It was built...as indicated by the VIN (*C7*=1967) as a 1967 Fairlane. That said, H&M, for reasons unknown, very often used 66 Fairlane grilles and tail lights on the 67s they built. Not sure there is a difference in the bumpers though. |
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Tom M. Board Moderator
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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I always said (and I was only half joking) that the '66 grille with its horizontal bars was easier to section an inch or so out of. |
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Gary66 Board Moderator
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 310 Location: Kannapolis,N.C.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Is it true that the claims of Mario not having equal power (at the beginning of Speedweeks) and that on the last pit stop he was held up to give Lorenzen the lead (as Mario loves to tell), or is all that bench racing tales shined up a bit 50 years after the fact? |
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Tom M. Board Moderator
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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I take it in context. If you watched Pole Day from Indy every year on the Wide World of Sports back in the '70s and '80s Mario always blamed running slower in time trials than he had run in practice on getting a bad turbo pop-off valve. Seemed like it was an annual occurrence.
While John Holman wasn't above playing favorites (Larry Frank claimed until he died that Holman ordered the team to only put one can of gas in his car in the '63 Daytona 500 when he was running near the front late in the race, so he couldn't beat one of the regular team cars) it's unlikely they would sabotage such a high profile Ford contract driver. After all, Ford was paying the bills for the whole operation. Mario can't claim bias against a northerner either, Holman was from California and Moody was from Massachusetts. |
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Randy B.
Joined: 10 Jan 2019 Posts: 4 Location: Bellevue, NE
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the info. |
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George Andrews
Joined: 30 Jan 2018 Posts: 460
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Gary66 wrote: | Is it true that the claims of Mario not having equal power (at the beginning of Speedweeks) and that on the last pit stop he was held up to give Lorenzen the lead (as Mario loves to tell), or is all that bench racing tales shined up a bit 50 years after the fact? |
Richard Petty complained about the same Lack of Power issue from H-M engines early in 1969 ( his only season driving a factory Ford ). It seems that, after winning in his Ford debut at Riverside in January, the other Ford drivers pitched a fit, to the point that Petty was off the pace at Daytona. Once brother Maurice began building the engines in-house the issues dissipated. |
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