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Originally Posted by Ron61
Ronbo,
I believe it was the Woods Brothers that years ago filled their tires with water for the weigh in. At that time they weighed the cars and inspected them as they arrived and that was it. They would then go to the garage and remove the extra weight by putting on the regular race tires. On one of the shows with the old NASCAR drivers reminiscing about the good old days, Buddy Baker said he went over to Leonard Woods and asked him why their car was so much faster and he was told to pick up that wheel and tire over there. He said he reached down and almost pulled his arm out of his shoulder when he tried to lift it. Darn I like those shows when they get together and talk about ways they got around certain things.
Ron |
Ron, I can remember a similar story about the "funny cars" of the mid 60's when it was Ford against Chrysler against GM and it really was
run what ya brung racing with just a few minor rules like minimum weight. I cannot remember which car or team but one of them arrived at the scale with the slicks filled with water. When they changed the rear wheels right after the weigh in, a competitor went over and just kicked one of the freshly removed slicks. Of course it weighed a lot more than it was supposed to.
Wayne