Just an interesting car that is rarely seen, thought I'd put it over here.

Chrysler had a small racing program in the '50s-60s that kept them at the forefront of OEM performance. They took cars to Daytona Beach in Florida for high speed runs and made sure that every year, the new Chrysler 300 was not only the fastest factory stock car in competition, but that each year got faster. This held true for every year but one from '55-61.

The 1961 Daytona Beach cars were a little more specialer than the cars most people bought. The biggest differences were a bigger cam, no choke on the carbs, short runners for the intake, and a first-time manual transmission in a 300, a four-speed. Only 7 to 15 cars were built this way, depends who you ask. The car as delivered went 143mph, which is pretty good for a 4200lb car with all the aerodynamics of a cinder block on skinny tires running on sand.

Andy Granatelli of Paxton superchargers took one of these cars and added two blowers to move it into factory experimental, where the previous record was 153mph. Estimated horsepower for the twin-blown 413 was around 800 and it ran 179.4 mph.

http://chrysler300country.com/1960_300F_andy_granatelli.htm

Great article and pics! Thanks!! I grew up around Chrysler 300's. My brother had a 55, my Dad had a 57, and I owned a 58. Hemi-a-wrench!

Great pics. There were a few very interesting cars built back then though they're not widely known. For 1956, Plymouth built a few Furys with 2x4 intakes, Imperial brakes, & other stuff to run NASCAR. Only 2 remain; one original except for a color change, the other currently being restored. They were referred to as SuperFurys. I plan to do an article on them in the near future.

Cool pics & info.
That was 7 years before I moved there with my parents.

In the late 60's when I was in HS my Dad had a 300F. A number of years I drove it from Ft Laud to the Daytona races. There was no I-95 and turpike was too expensive. We drove up Hwy 1, running 100-125mph. 238 miles, in under 3 hrs. The car had legs. Never should have sold it.

what pics?

Were there , maybe they will come back ..
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When I was very young one of my neighbors was an old guy and had a 57-59 Plymouth 2 dr stationwagon and one day He had the hood up doing something and while I didn't know what I was looking at engine wise because it wasn't a Ford or Chevy, I remember it had 2x4 bbl carbs?