The problem is, people take Hemmings, Hot Rod,
etc as an authoritative source. So they will quote their misinformation
elsewhere. If they want to be taken seriously, they need editors and
fact-checkers. The only publication I subscribed to recently was Auto Restorer
magazine. Always well-written and fact-checked. They were the only ones to get
the full story on the Tulsa 57 Plymouth that was exhumed in 2007. Sadly,
they ceased publication in February after 30+ years.
Ron
You
see the 300G article in Hemmings ? It describes a 727 in a G . These people
write totally wrong stuff so definitively as if experts .. drives me crazy ..
Then misinformation spreads . Not sure if same article — but just read about the
62 300 that was the fastest stock car at the 62 Nhra summer event . Run by Ray
Brock / Hot Rod Magazine.Back when HRM did more than write pretty articles ..
He lost final to a 421 (?) Pontiac because asleep on start
line , but he turned a faster time, in 12’s , an amazing feat in a full size 413
Chrysler . As in faster than all the max built 425 hp 409’s in light chevies you
hear so much about in 62.
But the guy writes paragraphs about Chrysler’s “new 3 speed stick “ ( A
terrible transmission, new in 61) attributes the HRM 62 performance to
that. In fact it was the first 727 . An automatic . Talk about tangling things
up .
In 300 club we should have a whole section on that HRM car . Our claim to
real fame The impact it had in the summer of 62 was unreal. I was beside myself
when it toasted the 409 and 421 . ( forget fords) ( yeah was street racing a
mopar bit against 50 of those guys)
There is an issue of 62 HRM that summer with about 6 pages of tech
stuff on that car .
Another real irritation is Marlin Davis (? Davies sp) of Hot Rod . Their
tech expert . Fully half of his articles are full of errors and opinions .
Yet editors know so little about cars they publish it .
I remember one where he was all tangled in his undies describing the
exhaust gas flow in a 671 truck supercharger— “ that we use instead for
drag racing “ . He clearly does not even know how a Diesel engine works ( 671 is
to compress air for sweeping / charging cylinders on a diesel , has nothing to
do with exhaust — nothing!)
Similarly Car Talk ;— a long talk about vacuum modulator valve
controlling transmission shifts on a Mercedes Diesel . First , Diesel has no
vacuum , not even a throttle valve in intake ) power is controlled by injectors
/ pump .
Not trying to be a jerk about this , but these guys must know (?) they do
not know ? Fine to say I do not know , how I learn .
Anyway , enough ! Be cynical when a self proclaimed expert tells you stuff
, is my takeaway at 77 ! Used to be all impressed , have learned better
....
John
Sent from my iPhone not by choice
They're terrible at that. They did a story on my car and got all the
details wrong even though I sent them the story. Very common with them.
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