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I just got off the phone with Sam Feinstein in a discussion about his top speed at Daytona in 3009 and he said, correcting the previous number, that the best he did was 177 mph. This was unofficial and read off the speedo, although he verified accuracy at the time by calculation using tire size, gear ratio, etc. Alot of effort went into maximizing speed at Daytona, so he is quite confident of the accuracy, given the testing with various configurations, repeated calculations, etc. Sam could not verify whether radar was used in general there at the time, or for Dick Smith's record, but said his car hit "a brick wall" around the 177.