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Originally Posted by Bobby Zlatkin
Rich, I had a 210 four door hardtop 220 HP that ran H/S. 3316 lb. shipping weight. Came in at 15.06 in a 15 lb. class. The 2 dr. sedans & hardtops had to run G/S. That's when we couldn't add or subtract weight and sometimes had to run an ugly body style to make the class.
I also used the Carter WCFB although a lot of the guys were running the Rochester which
I think later proved to be the better carb or at least the carb of choice.
I think the later 327 solid lifter cam was the .030-.030 cam. The 283 solid lifter cam called for .008"-.018". Still noisy but sounded good when pulling through the local drive-in.
I had to run the hydraulic lifter cam, as you did.
When I first started running that car in 1962 it was classified in F/S but as more classes were added at the top, it got pushed down to F/S. Now, I believe the 15 lb. class is N/S.
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Yes Bobby.....We had guys running every body style that had a favorable factor/ weight break. I do recall some very good running 4 door hdtp '57 Chevs. Wagons were all over the place and not just sedan deliveries. They were built for the automatic classes and the Hydro's we all used.....The hdtps sedans and wagons were all 4 speeds.....
One guy that used to pour thru the NHRA class guide book looking for good combos....Ralph Truppi.....He was real good at finding good combos.
Once NHRA decided to only allow assembly line produced combos....it really put a hurt to the category......Was it right....I guess it was but since they allowed them for a few years and so many of us built them....well it hurt a lot of guys....
Putting a Powerglide in a sedan delivery was just not something I wanted to do....We sold our car and quit......for a year or two....And than built a car that was a Ralph Truppi combo.....
It ran 2 tenths under the existing record on it's first hard pass.....with Ray Allen driving....and set the record later that year again with Ray behind the wheel...That record stood untill class changes combined some classes and it was bettered........I was always very proud of that record and it was not easy to get....Some guys set a lot of records and made it look easy...It was not....