Re: Birds with Wings!
Quote from Mopar Muscle on Facebook about the above picture!
"While most of us are familiar with the drag and NASCAR heroes of the ’60s, not everyone is so familiar with the Mopars of land speed racing. In the realm of production-based cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats, the Mopar stalwart was Norm Thatcher. His first 156-mph record was in a ’58 Plymouth, then he ran both ’61 and ’62 Dodge Darts with a variety of blown and unblown wedges, one of them running 191.890 mph one time. This photo is the Van Nuys, California, garage scene in Thatcher’s shop with his ’63 Plymouths, one Hilborn-injected and Weiand-blown, the other a crossram 426. Thatcher was famous for bringing multiple engines to each race with hopes of records in many classes, and his ’63 fleet included a blown 440ci wedges (before a production 440 was available), two blown 470ci strokers, a Hilborn-injected 513ci wedge, an injected 426, and a carbureted 426. For 1964 he changed to blown Hemi power in a ’64 Plymouth, and set a record at 205.56 mph, which at the time was the fastest pass over the standing kilo for a production-bodied car"