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Originally Posted by Rat Patrol
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I hope others who were there (my only Sting-Ray in 1967 was a bicycle) will chime in with some edits & comments.
Super! Glad you put in the factoring stuff.
The 427 Medium Riser / Side Oiler is kinda complicated though (4bbl vs 8bbl, cold air vs flat hood, etc) so:
"The Ford 427 side oiler was re-factored to 460HP."
You could just say
"The Ford 427 dual quad side oiler was re-factored to about 460HP"
I added "about" because back then NHRA didnt publish a HP number, they just gave the Lb/HP for each body style, then you use the weight tables from today, hope they're the same, and back-calculate the HP that NHRA was factoring in 1967. So it's "about" 460 but not an exact science in this case.
I'm just starting to read!
Another great year of history.
Further down:
"67 Lightweight 427 Fairlane ran in SS/C, a class slower than the 66 cars."
Near as I can figure from lots of discussions, the glass hood 427-8v Fairlanes (66-67 basically twin cars) ran in SS/B=7.00 class.
That made sense, because all the glass hood cars had a 427-8v under the hood. But the glass hood cars were all 1966 cars. No flat hoods in 1966, and no glass (scoop) hoods in 1967. NHRA finally figured out some rules & let the 66-67 Fairlanes all run the same rules, considering them "twin: cars. And of course for the best Factory Support (MONEY), it was best to run the current-year car ie the 1967 Fairlane in the 1967 race year.
So where did those SS/C=7.70 glass hood Fairlanes come from?
Best I can figure they were 427-4v Fairlanes, WITH the glass hood (a combo that never left the factory, sort of like the glass hood 415hp low-compression Max Wedge). These SS/C=7.70 427-4v Fairlanes would have run SS/D=7.70 in 1968 but the combo disappeared from the NHRA books. I guess they just ran too good.
The 427 Fairlane story is a convoluted one indeed.
Continuing to race results:
Winter:
IIRC the 60 Pontiac G/SA Douglas & Forys was a 389/318-6v wagon, fits class almost exactly. Those tripower Pontiacs weren't all GTOs!