The greatest racing EXPLOIT of all time!

216 miles per hour in a flying mile in 1971. So Nascar stock car

racing

in America has been around for some

time

and has evolved over the years and people forget that back in the days when they actually raced stock cars Stock today costs stock car

racing

, but The cars don't look like stock cars. There was a

time

when you or I could buy a car at a dealership, modify it, take it and enter a stock car race. And in the early days of auto racing, that's what people raced cars. that could be purchased at dealerships, in fact, that was a requirement.

Nascar said that if you're going to race a car in one of our races, it has to be a car that is sold to the general public and then modified for racing, so both Ford and Chrysler were very interested. in racing in the early '50s and '60s they realized that if their cars won, they would sell them. The joke is that if you win on Sunday, you sell on Monday. Well, for some strange reason, General Motors wasn't that interested, but Chrysler and Ford were. In the 1960s, these two car companies were fighting for supremacy on America's stock car tracks and if you look at the cars from 1962 63 64. they're boxy, they're boxy, they're not aerodynamic, they're flat. some of them are ugly and what they were doing to make cars faster was getting bigger and bigger engines, so there came a time when Chrysler came out with the hemi, the 426 hemi, they were actually putting these engines in modified stock cars , of course, but they were selling them to the public to make them legal to race stock and of course Ford had also come out with some good engines and by the early 1960s there was a problem: Ford was outpacing Chrysler and Chrysler was convinced they had the best. engine with the hemi, how could they be losing? and someone started looking at the cars going, you know, if you look at the lines at a ford, because these cars now go 160 170, maybe 180 miles per hour if you look at the lines at the ford. they're smoother, we think their cars are more aerodynamic, so there's a couple different people at Chrysler who care a lot and in fact there's some noise being made that they might lose the racing program entirely, because if you're losing on the tracks, you're making us look bad so either you win or we shut down your racing program so one of the guys in charge of chrysler racing is looking around and asking what we can solve this problem with and chrysler had a chrysler missile division in actually built missiles and actually worked on the Redstone army project, they laid off all the workers in their missile division one year and told these workers in the missile division that if they want, we will give them preference if they can find a job Instead of the automotive sector, a guy named John Poynter, an aerodynamics engineer, I interviewed the guy who died, but he's a brilliant guy, he was one of the guys who had previously worked on missiles, he approached the Chrysler automaker and said, "You know Guys, is there a job for me here?

A guy named Larry Rathgeb, who runs the Nascar program, sat down and said, "Hey, I have a question for you, John, you're an aerodynamics expert, have you seen a 1968 Dodge Charger?" We're racing the Chargers and they're not doing very well and John looks at them like you know you're just stating the obvious because of course no, they're horrible aerodynamically and Larry says, What's up, it's going good. First of all, the front grill is recessed and the roof is like that and there's a taillight, but there are sail panels that come off here, so there's a taillight that's recessed back there so air hits the grill and causes problems. when air passes. on the roof gets sucked into that and that causes problems, there are all kinds of problems, so Larry goes well, if I ask you as an aerodynamicist to fix that, what would you do and he says why I have an idea but you're not going? like it and larry says no, seriously, we're desperate, tell me what you're doing, he takes out a napkin and draws a conical nose and a wing, he flattens the back glass and says, the nose cone will keep the air from getting stuck. towards the grill and as the air comes out of the roof, it will come straight out of the rear glass that was moved out and if you shape the nose cone right, it will exert just as much downward force on the front of the car. want to lift the rear end up, so you have to put an inverted wing back there, a Clark Y Air foil that will push the rear end down and actually lifted it off the deck so it was actually higher than the roof and you have to put it up there to have clean air.

Larry preferred to go and talk to another aerodynamics guy without revealing the first conversation and says: what would you do if the guy doesn't get on the wing? and apparently this had occurred to the boys. In the aerodynamics division years before, in fact, there were racing cars and other circuits that put wings on the back and had noses like this, but not on street cars because remember that to race in Nascar you have to sell it to the public . Is anyone really going to do it? sell a car with a conical nose and a wing to the public in the United States.

Wow, yeah, it's a car, turns out Chrysler would make it, so they sent John Poynter to the Chelsea Proving Ground in Michigan and said get a car and show us it would work. In fact, they got a charger with a racing hemi and using angle iron cardboard and duct tape, they made mock nose cones, simulated wings, filled the rear glass and experimented with shapes, found the shapes they liked and came out. to run laps. in the big oval, when they found shapes they liked, they would send them to someone else, make them in fiberglass and test them again and finally they said yes, we have the shape, it will work and they had tried some provisional things in the en the middle, like when they first discovered the problem with the recessed grill they came out with a car called a charger 500 where they actually put a nose plug in and straightened the rear glass which didn't solve the problem so desperate measures were needed and so they actually wrote this up and showed that it would work.

Larry Rathcab went to his boss and it was just to let her know that I have a solution, we will win, but it will be drastic and he shows them the artwork with the nose cone and the wing. and the guy looks and says, "You guarantee me he'll win because he's guaranteed to." So to sell a car, lift it up and ask you to sell 500 copies for homologation rules, he had to sell 500. So very quickly they did this. where they found the contractors to make the nose cones on the wings and also the backlight sockets, they took chargers off the assembly line and put the nose cones wings on them and sold them as Daytona chargers so you could go to a car dealer in late 1969 and bought a Charger Daytona with a Hemi with a nose cone and a wing and that car with the right tires could probably go 180, maybe a little higher, but of course modified because the guys at Nascar can go even faster, so they presented the car at Talladega. 500 in 1969 one of the cars won the race bobby isaac driving one came in third place one of the cars qualified at 199.9 miles per hour and there was a debate within Chrysler circles if we should let the guy go over 200 because they didn't want to Nascar to think that they had made this car just to race in Nascar, but it was obvious that they had and that's why they qualified at 199 and they won that race and they won many other races and those cars really did it. well, the Dodge division had the Plymouth Charger, took the roadrunner, put a cone-shaped wing on it and called it superbird, so in 1970, for one season, you would see these winged cars on the track, the Dodge Charger Daytonas and The Plymouth Superbirds, Richard. patty drove a super bird pete hamilton drove a super bird with richard petty's team bobby isaac won the national championship in 1970 and on all the super big tracks he would drive at daytona now you wouldn't drive on all the tracks the aerodynamic effects just kick a high speeds uh on dirt tracks you wouldn't drive on the smaller tracks you wouldn't drive and the interesting thing is as that season went on there were rumors that Ford was thinking about making one of their cars aerodynamic. cone in his king cobra and something like bill france, people race nascar, actually you know we can't allow this, this is, now we have these extravagant cars on the track, they don't look like normal cars or racing cars stock cars.

They're supposed to be normal cars, so they actually said, you know, starting next year '71, we'll start altering the rules to keep these cars out. There was a car entered in the Daytona 571 that was a Daytona that was allowed to be there, but he ran it with a small block, so it was there, but it didn't do very well and when the winged car era came to an end Anyway, the KNK team that Bobby Isaac drove for had this car and they were convinced it was the fastest in the world. car, but it was no longer allowed to race in Nascar, so they took out the Bonneville salt flats and did some speed tests there and this is all you know, sanctioned stuff and they actually recorded the card with original body carburetors at 216 miles per hour. in a flying mile in 1971 in a stock body car, that's crazy and they set a bunch of other records, you know, 10 miles, 100 miles, all that kind of stuff and the first car to record a closed course lap 200 miles per hour for Nascar was Buddy Baker driving a Dodge Charger Daytona that had been equipped by Chrysler, so it's a fascinating story because back then people who saw these cars either loved them or hated them, it's hard to be in the middle of them. the road when it comes to winged cars. car, a big ol' wing on the back and a big ol' nose cone on the front, uh, they had accidents, they were a real mess, you'd see these, you know, these mash front ends because people get close and it understates because the hood drops like this, i have had the pleasure of driving bobby isaac's can daytona, the owner let me drive it, it's a blast, but you know it was a really cool experience, that car still exists and you know, it's in Alabama, now I also had the pleasure of riding Richard Petty's super bird on a track and again you know I was a passenger, I'm hanging from a roll bar and you know we're going around, one of the coolest things.

Because these cars were actually racing in Nascar back then at speeds close to 200 miles per hour and the interesting thing is that when they changed the rules to ban exotic cars, the cars had become so fast that in many ways they are becoming too rapid. for the tracks and that's when they started bringing in things like restrictor plates and stuff, so if you think about the history of Nascar, I think the end of the Wing Car era is the beginning of the Dole drums and also, in my opinion, the fall of Nascar. from car racing to whatever they have now, now all the cars look alike, they basically all use the same powertrains and other than the livery, you know?

Do you have straps on the hood or mm on the hood? I can't tell what car it's supposed to be, but it's not really that car anyway, so in my opinion, the winged car era really is like the golden era of Nascar. I plan to buy a used car. I want to be on the safe side. Check if the mileage has been altered is easy with the carly app and carly adapter find out more at mycarly.com