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Roger, you're getting to the party, awfully late.

Virtually every red-herring, and obfuscation,  that you're raising now,
has already been discussed and or documented in the many earlier
postings on this subject. 

To bring you up to speed (ahem), we are now attempting  to try document
any D500-1 official race results, in which classes, and are trying to
confirm the 1956-ish NHRA rules regarding class placements.

Neil Vedder


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  • From: Jan & Roger van Hoy <vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:28:38 -0800
Oh, my head!  So many unsubstantiated claims, so much guesswork...
 
Why do you think they built a D500-1 in 1956?  It wasn't for gramma to get her groceries.  They were made to race.
 
Then the next year the factories didn't [openly] support racing.
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I don't think that the D500-1 was not so much dis-allowed in Stock 
class, as much as it was not competitive, with a single 4-bbl carb (IF that really was a criteria, for "stock" class, and  with its exhaust manifolds [ditto],
 
What I read was that "stock class" was for single carbs.  So if you have multiple carbs you're out.  Doesn't matter if you had 500 HP at the wheels.  So now you're challenging that there was such a rule?  Based on what?
 
in relation to its over-rated HP / Chrysler's admittedly OVER-estimating  gross HP in the 1950's
 
When the 1956 Chrysler 300B with 10.1:1 compression cranked out over 1 HP per cubic inch, you really think if that was inflated the competition wouldn't have noticed?  Plus they were available from the factory with rear end ratios from 3.08:1 to 6.17:1, and 3" dual exhausts.
 
versus what it was really producing at the rear wheels, and in relation to its actual weight.
 
Says who?  You have one set of test results by a magazine on one car.

Tim; some of us who know of the laws of Physics,
 
Now that's just plain mean-spirited.  Plus who suspended the laws of physics?  The claim was that a D500-1 race car was good at racing... is that so unbelievable?  You think the wind-catcher sun visor and deeply hooded headlights on the '57's were aerodynamic?
 
IF a 1956 Dodge accomplished  this feat (close-to, or under 15 
seconds/90+ MPH)  it would be incumbent to produce the specific
alterations which were made to the OEM standards, which allowed such a result to occur, and, to cease (NOT you; "other people")
referring/implying that the accomplishment was obtained by anything 
other than a highly-modified unique race car,
 
Incumbent upon whom?  You're the one who is claiming/insisting/referring/implying that some D500-1's were highly modified.
 
and not by any  particular OEM vehicle (like the cars @ Daytona, which WERE as blue-printed  as possible, and , and that saw factory-driver/engineer Danny Eame's  car's Standing Mile time get bettered by a non-factory  tuned (that's being gracious) 1957 Dodge, by 3 MPH.
The OEM ...........1956 D500-1's Standing Mile Daytona timing would not have placed within the top (at least) 5 finishers, in 1957 . Daytona records  represent as-FAIR-of- results, as possible,  for head-to-head OEM......competition, in the 1950's .
 
Not sure about D500-1's at Daytona, but Plymouth had a hard time with the new Fury.  It couldn't run stock in Daytona Speed Weeks because it hadn't been in production for 90 days, so it ran FX, but there wasn't time to get all the allowable mods onto it.  Then a fuel malfunction dropped it out of competition.
 
This is getting to be like a computer game in a slide rule world, and frankly is getting a bit too personal.  Nothing is being proved or going to be proven by these exercises.
 
--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56 Plymouth, '66 Plymouth, '41 Dodge
 
0-60 times of about... fifteen minutes
 

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