I met Arnie Beswick 2 years ago at a car show. We talked a
little while about his 56 D500-1. He confirmed high 13
second ets at 106 mph as his best times. He used very deep
rear gears and started in 2nd gear. He claimed he never
got beat until a 57 Chevy running a 4 speed (available
only in Corvette, thus illegal in "stock" classes) beat
him. He tried the 57 D501 but it was too heavy and had
poorer weight transfer to be competative. Some of those
slower times we have seen printed may have been because a
driver may have let up on the gas if he is too far ahead
of the competition to save wear on the engine.
Arnie's car was an all black 2 door Coronet. I asked what
happened to it. He sold it to a local kid who lost a race
to an intersection to a train.
Dave Homstad
56 Dodge d500
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:34:19 EDT
Archangel1390@xxxxxxx wrote:
Tim claimed that all three guy raced there D 500s and one
of them was Arnie
Beswick. Well the Hot Rod Magazine covering the fastest
of the fast at the
Regional meet in the same exact state as Tim quotes in
the same month-- ( this
below is result a month or so later) Show Arnie Beswick
Dodge D 500-1 2/4s
running gas class where they put you if you had more than
one carburetor ( In gas
class you could do almost any thing to your car short of
putting a
supercharger on it.) Arnie won the class with a 15.74 at
92.78 NHRA TIMED. See Below At
14.1 as stated by Tim the other Dodge would beat Arnie's
winning car by almost
18 car lengths---NO WAY!!!!
Ron Allyn Swartley
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