I was looking through some old maps at the cottage and look at this. It is a 1988-89 Official Ontario Government issued Road Map. Nice photo of Manitoulin Island on the front:
But wait, check out that lead car on the road:
Pretty neat, a 1973 A Body either LeMans or GTO with NASA Hood! How cool is that.
-- Edited by 73SC on Saturday 30th of May 2009 12:59:06 PM
Not to annoy you or anything, but those hood ducts are actually called NACA ducts, not NASA. Here's an explanation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA_duct
Not to annoy you or anything, but those hood ducts are actually called NACA ducts, not NASA. Here's an explanation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA_duct
Annoyed? Not me. This is a long debated topic on this and other boards. It is a NASA hood as described in all GM Literature from 1973. GM chose to call the hood NASA type. The fact that the ducts were developed by NACA, the predecessor to NASA, is not relevant. It is according to GM, the manufacturer a NASA type Hood, just like they chose to call their limited slip differential Positraction. No one says wait it is not Positraction it is limited slip. So you are right in saying these are NACA ducts BUT the hood is still known and named by the manufacturer as NASA type.
You will also notice from my avatar that I have a NASA type scooped hood on my car and I call it a NASA type Hood every time I speak about it, just the same way as GM does in all sales literature.
-- Edited by 73SC on Sunday 31st of May 2009 12:59:30 PM
I can confirm everything Ray said. I have the 73 Pontiac Dealer Sales Manual and throughout it is referred to as a NASA hood as it is in all official Pontiac literature.
You have to be careful with Wikipedia. People can just submit whatever they want and there is no editor to make sure any of it is correct.
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Yes, wikipedia was a bad choice on my part, but I remember this controversy when these cars were new.
Probably one of those things that will never be settled though. Who knows maybe GM couldn't call it a NACA hood for some reason, maybe they thought that since NASA succeeded NACA it was proper to call it NASA, maybe they knew it was a NACA duct, ignored that and used the more commonly acceptable term of NASA so people would know what they were talking about, maybe they didn't care and just liked NASA better. Anyway, you can't find it referred to as NACA anywhere in Pontiac and GM Canada literature, just NASA.
-- Edited by 73SC on Saturday 30th of May 2009 10:40:21 PM
That map is really cool and especially since the car would be 15 years old. Now taking into consideration that the picture might be a couple of years old, the car would still be 10 years old or more. Now that is cool.
That map is really cool and especially since the car would be 15 years old. Now taking into consideration that the picture might be a couple of years old, the car would still be 10 years old or more. Now that is cool.
Of course we can't know when the photo was taken, the car behind looks like a 78 or so Olds Cutlass.
-- Edited by 73SC on Sunday 31st of May 2009 01:00:42 PM
Not to annoy you or anything, but those hood ducts are actually called NACA ducts, not NASA. Here's an explanation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA_duct
It is one thing for us to say NASA is the term used by GM Canada but better when GM Canada says it themselves. Here is the page for the 75 GT where the scoops are described as NASA.
-- Edited by 73SC on Saturday 20th of June 2009 01:56:25 PM
This is a long debated topic on this and other boards. It is a NASA hood as described in all GM Literature from 1973. GM chose to call the hood NASA type. The fact that the ducts were developed by NACA, the predecessor to NASA, is not relevant. It is according to GM, the manufacturer a NASA type Hood, just like they chose to call their limited slip differential Positraction. No one says wait it is not Positraction it is limited slip. So you are right in saying these are NACA ducts BUT the hood is still known and named by the manufacturer as NASA type.
Who knows maybe GM couldn't call it a NACA hood for some reason, maybe they thought that since NASA succeeded NACA it was proper to call it NASA, maybe they knew it was a NACA duct, ignored that and used the more commonly acceptable term of NASA so people would know what they were talking about, maybe they didn't care and just liked NASA better. Anyway, you can't find it referred to as NACA anywhere in Pontiac and GM Canada literature, just NASA.