OT: re '59 BelAire crash tests
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OT: re '59 BelAire crash tests
Watched that video and it reminded me of something I had forgotten about for decades.
used to go to the dirt track roundy rounds back about 1965/66 in Denver and in addition to the circle track race,and demo derby (low speed), they had figure 8 racing.
Now, back then all you saw on the track was mid '50s Chevs and Fords and maybe other mid '50s car.
I saw some pretty nasty T bones at the cross of the figure 8. Saw ambulances also.
Guess they decided the figure 8 race was too much liability as it was gone a few years after that.
I think every other '55-'57 Chev built ended up as either a dirt track car or demo derby car in the 1960's.
Doug
used to go to the dirt track roundy rounds back about 1965/66 in Denver and in addition to the circle track race,and demo derby (low speed), they had figure 8 racing.
Now, back then all you saw on the track was mid '50s Chevs and Fords and maybe other mid '50s car.
I saw some pretty nasty T bones at the cross of the figure 8. Saw ambulances also.
Guess they decided the figure 8 race was too much liability as it was gone a few years after that.
I think every other '55-'57 Chev built ended up as either a dirt track car or demo derby car in the 1960's.
Doug