=========================================================== Your opinion counts! We?re conducting a survey for a computer service/repair company. When you complete our survey, you will also be entered into a drawing for one of ten $100 prizes. Just click caab8K4b7yoMza/ Val Rad =========================================================== I got out my 63 Daytona 500 program to make sure I was there. It appears that I was. The race was delayed about 2 hours by rain and then the temp. dropped into the 50's and the wind picked up to 30 MPH, so my brain may still be affected by that, or other stuff. As I remember it, Richard's Hemi expired about lap 150 or so. I was rooting for him so that sticks with me. I could be off on that because of a few Molson's and Bud's over the years since. That day, April 24, 1963, was the day that I decided that Mopar B bodies were the thing to have and I was going to get one. Then Mom had a 65 Coronet 383/727 when I got me drivers license in 1969. YeeHa! As near as I can recall, the 63 Daytona 500 was the first "gas mileage race." Fred Lorenzen had it won, but ran out of gas about lap 193 and had to stop. Ned Jarret took the lead but had to stop on lap 197 for gas. A Sportsman racer named Tiny Lund from Cross, SC gambled on fuel and won the race. He was driving a car that was built for a big name driver who was injured in a preliminary race. Marvin Panch may be it, but I'm not sure. Those clowns were all driving Phurds, so a gas mileage race is all that they could have won. Joe Huff 65 Bel II ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Crossley" <rcrossley@xxxxxxxxx> To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:03 PM Subject: RE: 63 Sport Fury/Hemi availability Hi All - Oh boy, a good discussion. According to what I've read recently, but don't remember where, the hemi was finished testing about a week before the Daytona 500, which, if you recall, was won by Richard. 2nd, 3rd, and, I think 4th, was also a hemi. The first drag hemi, running A/FX, I saw was much later in the year. I just remember most of the guys who had them were very upset that they didn't run faster. Then they figured out how to make them run as fast as they should and the rest is history. It's interesting that sometimes the written "history" doesn't necessarily agree with the actual observation and experience. I guess that's how legends, and the hemi certainly fits in that category, begin! Ron '64 Sport Fury 440/727 =========================================================== =========================================================== Sign up to get FREE information from leading colleges! Compare degrees, admissions, financial aid and more. Study your career education options at Collegeinformation.info. caab8K7b7yoMzf/ College Info =========================================================== ---- Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! '62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html. b7yoMz.