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For a good part of my youth, stock car racing was my major fascination, always battling with hockey for top spot (hockey in the winter, racing in the summer).  I spent a good part of those days following the local racing activities, and my best friend and I would take turns torturing our Dads to take us to 'the races' on the weekend, with occasional success.  biggrin

This one brings back memories for me as I can vividly recall watching this car battle in the Sportsman class every time I went, and it was one of my (many) favourites.  Over and above I thought it was one of the nicest looking cars on the track.

Anyhow, what a gift to see some video coverage of points in its build, plus showing the finished product.  Note the 360 degree headers that a lot of the cars used at the time, with both exhaust exiting at the right door area.  Those headers were the best sounding ever to my ears, nothing sounds as mean IMHO.



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Thanks for this Mark. Took me back.

That Camaro just looks like it would be fast doesn't it, and you gotta love all the old eyeball engineering taking place in that block garage. Do it ALL yourself. Does it get any better? I did laugh at the faux vinyl roof as per the sponsor though.

I was the same, when a boy I loved Speedway park, Flamborough and Cayuga, and was a constant nuisance bugging my dad to take me and my friends. I think he liked it too. We'd always come home with checkered flags, decals and the latest issue of Wheelspin news, as boys were were in heaven.

My favorite were always the six cylinder powered hobby cars of the OHCA. They always seemed to be the best dressed, and being smaller and less powered always put on a great show. At times I swear there were 30 cars on the track at a time. The open wheels made for some wild wrecks though. The sound of the sixes through the open headers while flat out on the pipe, passing the bleachers on the front stretch gave me shivers. Still does even thinking about it. And I can remember the smell (and the stinging eyes) from the racing fuel after 5 laps or so.

Ahh, those were the days. 



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Neat!  I remember reading about Flamborough and Cayuga in Wheelspin News, and seeing pics of the cars there.  I always thought they must have been the coolest tracks to go to!  Being in the Martimes, we didn't really get much coverage in Wheelspin, though.  I still read it from cover to cover each time I got one (everybody received a copy upon entrance to the track IIRC).

Atlantic Speedway was a 1/2 mile oval, with relatively long straights, so you could really hear the engines winding out as they hit the back half of the straight.  The cars could hit some decent speeds, but that also led to some fairly substantial wrecks.  IIRC, most of the other tracks in my area were 1/4 to 1/3 mile, which were mostly turns with short straights.

Another tidbit of info was that they had a street tire rule to keep costs down as the endless competition to have bigger and stickier rubber than your competitors was driving costs up, so you will notice the Road Hugger belted tires on the car.  That's what they raced with as a cost control method.  Drawing from a smaller population, they had to keep costs down to get enough cars to show up each week.

Also, at this track there were two classes initially: Modified and Sportsman.  The Modifieds were full bodied cars and didn't look like what they were calling modifieds elsewhere, which were typically open wheel cars with a half coupe or compact body on the chassis.  I don't have a breakdown of the rules, but the Modifieds were faster, obviously.  Outwardly they tended to have larger tires but I don't have an intimate knowledge of the differences.  Later a mini-stock class was added, which at the time was Datsuns, Toyotas, Pintos, etc.  I don't recall seeing any Vegas in the class - maybe due to the engine issues they were having?

Yeah, lol on the vinyl top.  Ya have to remember in 1974 those half vinyl tops were the latest and greatest thing, even if they look a little out of place on a Camaro.   Gotta keep the sponsor happy!  wink



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