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Originally Posted by SSSwede
So... moving the rear axle forward 3" will put this tire pretty much flush to the front lower wheel well lip. Add to that another 1" or so (+clearance), for the taller slicks used. This 7,75X15 tire (Jim Schild´s SS Guide) is some 27" (my remark) tall.
And no modification done to the inner lower wheel well?
Go figure...
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I agree, it seems extreme. I'm only relating the conversation I was involved in. The Tech Dept. keyed off on the longer than expected wheelbase because a few weeks earlier they caught Dave Wren's SS/D Barracuda with some kind of sliding wheelbase system. The system was caught because the wheelbase (when checked) was longer than stock, yet the tires clearly rubbed the front of the (distant) wheel openings.
Allow me to relay another story of the creativity of those times.
In the early 70's I went with another friend to pick up his SS Dart at the paint shop, during the paint process they naturally removed all of the glass and trim, breaking the windshield. Everyone thought that would not be an issue, the door glasses were the important pieces. When they went to install a new windshield the bare glass, without the gasket, overlapped the windshield pillars. The body shop was adamant that they wouldn't have broken the original windshield if it had not been single ply. It was only the outer layer of a laminated windshield, cut and polished to fit the opening.
I filed that info away, and I will swear that I never used that one again. Who would dare not run safety glass in a race car.
I do not know where the modifications to that car were done, or who did it. He brought that SS Dart, and one other, with him when he moved back East from California.