Daytona 500 Sunday February 19th 2:30 PM EST (GMT +5)

There is a Cammer for sale in "Bring A Trailer" currently at $65,555. brand new, never ran (so is the claim).
7-foot long timing chain. Wow.
 
Sadly, like model T's, then A's, and forward, value declines when a lot of the enthusiasts of tge age group die off.

That guy mentioned before, with six of them, should be sure to unload them before us old guys expire.
 
concours said:
Sadly, like model T's, then A's, and forward, value declines when a lot of the enthusiasts of tge age group die off.

That guy mentioned before, with six of them, should be sure to unload them before us old guys expire.
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I have asked him what, if ever, he plans to do with them but he just hangs on to them like they were Rembrandts or Pollacks or whatever's.
He told me he gets constant inquiries about them and I told him to sell one or two and go fly around the world! He just laughed.
I think he just enjoys the hell out of owning something so rare and special in his profession/world.

I did see some timing chains hanging off the wall in his shop and was amazed at the length. He also showed me a seldom seen gear drive timing setup for the 427 SOHC. Said it was really noisy but much preferred to changing or modifying stretched timing chains.
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Ford took the first five spots in the 1963 Daytona 500, I listened to it on the radio, with the 427 medium riser wedge against 426 max wedge MOPARs. In 64 Richard Petty led two other MOPARs to the top three places in the 500 with the new 426 HEMI. For the 65 season NASCAR banned the Chy. HEMI and the Ford 427 SOHC engine so Chrysler sat out the season in protest, in 66 NASCAR allowed the 426 HEMI to back which pissed off Ford so they sat out the year. As best I remember the compromise to get both companies back for 1967 was that the 427 Ford wedge could compete with two four barrel carbs and the Chy. 426 HEMI could only use one four barrel carb.
 
WTF was that. “We’ll keep going until we run into regularly scheduled programming and then we’ll just end it”

And “regularly scheduled programming” is the Simpsons, so i get it
 
The Daytona 530 LOL

apnews.com

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins longest Daytona 500 in history

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the Daytona 500 in double overtime and under caution Sunday night in the longest running of “The Great American Race.” The two overtimes pushed the 65th running of the race to a record 212 laps — a dozen laps beyond the scheduled distance and a...
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TomU said:
WTF was that. “We’ll keep going until we run into regularly scheduled programming and then we’ll just end it”

And “regularly scheduled programming” is the Simpsons, so i get it
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What a rediculous mishmash of stupidarse rules, made up by marketing chumps trying to make racing like stick-and-ball sports.
 
rweb said:
Ford took the first five spots in the 1963 Daytona 500, I listened to it on the radio, with the 427 medium riser wedge against 426 max wedge MOPARs. In 64 Richard Petty led two other MOPARs to the top three places in the 500 with the new 426 HEMI. For the 65 season NASCAR banned the Chy. HEMI and the Ford 427 SOHC engine so Chrysler sat out the season in protest, in 66 NASCAR allowed the 426 HEMI to back which pissed off Ford so they sat out the year. As best I remember the compromise to get both companies back for 1967 was that the 427 Ford wedge could compete with two four barrel carbs and the Chy. 426 HEMI could only use one four barrel carb.
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Daytona 500 Sunday February 19th 2:30 PM EST (GMT +5)
 
The race was a disaster, in my opinion. Several million dollars worth of race cars trashed, almost half the field didn't finish the race.

I knew what was coming, so fast-forwarded thru the entire race except the crashes to see which poor sods lost out, and hopefully were able to walk away (thankfully, all were OK).

Stupid thing ended under another yellow flag (gee, ya think?), and my recording ended. The website listed the wrong winner for a while, so I was not pleased at all. Probably going to skip watching it next year, not worth it. THAT is not "racing"
 
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