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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2015 - 10:24:23 AM »
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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2015 - 10:37:55 AM »
"It has only 1,936 miles on it!!" .... 1/4 mile at a time .....
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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2015 - 11:00:01 AM »
"It has only 1,936 miles on it!!" .... 1/4 mile at a time .....

484 passes!

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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2015 - 02:01:54 PM »
484 passes!

You divided instead of multiplied! Shoulda said 7744 passes!

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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2015 - 02:14:34 PM »
I guess you mathematicians aren't accounting for the return lane ? :burnout:
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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2015 - 02:16:49 PM »
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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2015 - 03:28:33 PM »
Farris Bueller said if you go backwards after the pass, the miles come off the odometer.   :ylsuper:
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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2015 - 03:34:47 PM »
You divided instead of multiplied! Shoulda said 7744 passes!

 :dogpile:  Need more coffee before I post that early.....

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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2015 - 09:23:27 PM »
That's a strange coincidence. 20-25 years ago, I got a claim at Legendary Motors in Milton, Ontario, Canada that hadn't been in business all that long. It was on a Vette carb fire and on the way out, I looked down the line of muscle cars for sale in the front showroom. At the very end, I glimpsed  flash of Plumb Crazy and when I asked, Klutt said to go on down and have a look. It was a Plumb Crazy, 70 Hemi Cuda with black guts. The paint looked kinda worn and he explained that it was original and to check the mileage. I looked in and the speedo read 1600ish miles. when I said it was 101600 miles, he said "no, that's the original mileage". The original owner had bought the car new and raced it from the get-go. He'd very carefully stashed all the stock parts he changed for race ones and when he finally decided to sell the car; put them all back on. It was a #'s car and they were asking $70,000 which was about twice what I thought it was worth! Man, I wish I've seen the writing on THAT particular wall a wee bit better!  :banghead:

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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2015 - 09:43:21 PM »
I remember that car...It was the talk of the town...
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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2015 - 10:05:23 AM »
That's a strange coincidence. 20-25 years ago, I got a claim at Legendary Motors in Milton, Ontario, Canada that hadn't been in business all that long. It was on a Vette carb fire and on the way out, I looked down the line of muscle cars for sale in the front showroom. At the very end, I glimpsed  flash of Plumb Crazy and when I asked, Klutt said to go on down and have a look. It was a Plumb Crazy, 70 Hemi Cuda with black guts. The paint looked kinda worn and he explained that it was original and to check the mileage. I looked in and the speedo read 1600ish miles. when I said it was 101600 miles, he said "no, that's the original mileage". The original owner had bought the car new and raced it from the get-go. He'd very carefully stashed all the stock parts he changed for race ones and when he finally decided to sell the car; put them all back on. It was a #'s car and they were asking $70,000 which was about twice what I thought it was worth! Man, I wish I've seen the writing on THAT particular wall a wee bit better!  :banghead:

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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2015 - 10:14:28 AM »
I guess you mathematicians aren't accounting for the return lane ? :burnout:

that's what I was thinking. 3872 passes or less. sometimes you have to drive down to the fuel shed or the scales. Even so, that is 86 passes a year for 45 years. That's a fair amount of racing.

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Re: Canadian 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda NHRA Race Car
« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2015 - 03:30:04 PM »
It takes as long to slow the car down as race plus the burn out pit.

This would be my math hope its not to Ricey

staging lane .25 mile
burn out pit .125 mile (generous don't forget the Canadian factor burn outs may exceed .25 mile)
Race .25 mile
Brake zone .25 mile
Return lane .5 mile

That's a solid mile and a half per run.

250K seems like enough but as a fellow Canuck the Y07 and the fact that the fender tag says E74 D21 makes it pretty special