Jim,
Let me know when and where you’ll be
racing! I’ll be there to shoot some video and maybe I will race you with
my 59 Sport Fury, that way you can show that the Hemi has a lot more power than
my 318 4bbl.
Ron, The Netherlands
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Jim Hoekendijk
Verzonden: vrijdag 2 november 2007
22:03
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Onderwerp: Re: [FWDLK] ...I Ain't
afraid of no Ghosts (or: Mythology Ain't what it used...
Way to go! That’s it! That’s
what I mean, what I’m in here for.
Don’t make no mistake: I really dig
the figures from the old past. Many of you know I’m too deep into that
too.
But the butterflies I get is experiencing
it’s still possible, here, today.
Of course, any nitro fed rice burning
anything can beat me now.
But that’s not the point. I, and only
I, have an all original, matching numbers 1957 (baby) Hemi, that still can burn
some pretty serious rubber on any street.
Yeah, even the paint is all original too.
And you know what? When spectators show me their disbelieve, I can tell them I
am so lucky, I own two of these rare beasts!
Now, that’s what makes my heart beat
(after taking care for my family).
Okay. I’ve had even some more wine
now (after all, it’s already Friday night here…), but you know
what? I’ll make a promise I’ll race them next summer and
you’ll all will be able to see that on YouTube. I solemnly swear.
Jim, The Netherlands.
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Verzonden: vrijdag 2 november 2007
21:49
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Onderwerp: Re: [FWDLK] ...I Ain't
afraid of no Ghosts (or: Mythology Ain't what it used...
Every once in a while I play "1957" with
my Fury just to see if the tranny can take it off the line. I put it
into 1st gear and give it gas with my foot on the brake. Like I did in
the "old" days. And go through the gears to hear that chirp
when it slams into 2nd. I also floor it doing 35 on a highway to get into
passing gear, which really still throws me back into the seat. It still
makes butterflies in my stomach, just like it did in 1957 and after, at Island
Drags and on the street. But today if the trans blows it's $1200-$1500
bucks, not the $250 it was back in '57. But it still feels great to go
out and see if the car can do the tricks it did back when I was a kid.
John Paxos
'57 Fury
'57 Belvedere Convertible
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From: Jim Hoekendijk <57_Super_D-500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 1:29 pm
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] ...I Ain't afraid of no Ghosts (or: Mythology Ain't what
it used...
I wouldn’t be afraid to floor the gas
peddle on my 1957 OEM D500 and Super D500. Only thing is they’re not in
the US…
But I will surely do that, once…
regardless of what
times were recorded, official, or unofficial... by the means of the modern
world.... they weren't able to show their full potential anyway...
a neat fwdlk event would
be to get out some of the D500s, letter cars, Furys, and adventurers and have a
nice track day- i'm sure some would be afraid to actually run these cars now-
but with a modern tire instead of the pizza cutters they were using back then,
something simple like a dot on a steel wheel- would cut time off right there...
and add a little purple to the gas to get the octane up and add lead - how
these cars were meant to run anyway.
as for the MPH issue- that
is a measurement of horsepower- you can change the gears, drop e.t. and 60',
but the mph will still be real close- i'd have to dig out timeslips- but a
while back i swapped from a 3.23 to a 4.10 gear... amazingly went from a 15.7
to a 15.1, with 3/10 off the 60'.... but picked up 1-2mph only- since
absolutely nothing but gears were changed..... after that [considering this was
a daily driver- most of the time] a cam swap, carb tune, recurve, and clutch
fan... the car got down to a 14.6-14.7 consistently...
granted
that's still slow numbers to speak of- it backs the output of the engines of
discussion, not nesessarily the actual e.t.'s they
pulled
the
manual cars have the stump pulling advantage and less mechanical drag than teh
auto- but notice the mph is close, the hp loss of the hydraulic trans makes up
for the human downtime of completing the shift of a manual, over the instant
shift of the iron auto...
i know some list members
have fwdlk cars that can "run" with the modern times... they'd have
to come out to the NOW drags too... just in case some 5.0 or LS1 guys are in
the audience... 14.anything from a car in the 50s is
more than respectable- if it happened then... but minivans pull
down better times now.. so some of the 10-13 sec full bodied mopars would
have to run too... the ones that aren't aaca judged that is
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