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Richard Petty was in the lead for the first part of this race at Riverside, He had that funky Plymouth Belvedere number 43, with that wicked 451 cu in Hemi Engine in it.... He lapped the other cars at The Daytona 500 and won that race... He was able to lap the field so bad that NASCAR banned the Hemi in 65... I don't know what he did then... maybe sat out the season ?? Anybody know?
CosmicFork 3 months ago
@CosmicFork No he´s changed the car for the crest of the season using another Dodge model that i don´t know
Words of a Brazilian guy
445lok 2 months ago
@CosmicFork First of all, it was a 426 cubic inch Hemi, as Nascar had a 430 cubic inch limit back then, biggest it ever got. Second, the 426 Hemi didn't make it's Nascar debut until the 1964 Daytona 500, (& the qualifying races for it), after the Riverside race. For Riverside the Mopar teams still ran the 426 wedge as Chrysler was still casting Hemi blocks & didn't have enough to bring the Hemi out in Nascar then. Finally Richard was running a 63 Belvedere at Riverside, not a 64
BluesmanMark 2 months ago
@BluesmanMark Oh, O.K. so I was wrong about the displacement, and this Belvedere, (the famous number 43, they even made a Revel model of it) would have had the 426 wedge in it... at this time at Riverside. But that 426 wedge still must have been a really wicked engine, because would the Fords be running 427's Big Blocks at this time? Thanks for the information, (for some reason I don't understand, I find this technical stuff really interesting).
CosmicFork 2 months ago
Its good to see NASCARs roots. Old school cars. All steel, all stock. Pole was set at 102 mph. Joe Weatherly died at this race. Seat belts went mandatory in 1964 bench seat lap belts. No bucket sets then or 4 point nothing. If we went back to 1964 and got a racer. And put him in a NASCAR cup car of today he would be unstopable. Lighter, Faster, Safer. And the pay offs not to bad either.
CMoLov69 1 year ago
@CMoLov69 If you think that those cars were "stock" in 1964, let me sell you some prime oceanfront property I own here in Iowa!! LOL!!!
BluesmanMark 2 months ago