In reply to EastCoastMojo :
Knurled. said:That Catalina has the fairly rare heavy duty brakes option!
The "wheels" you see are the heavily finned brake drums. The wheels are just a rim with eight tabs that bolt to the outer diameter of the drum.
I've seen a few, but I have never seen one that still had the adaptor in the trunk so that you could use a tire machine with them. Tire machines generally clamped the wheel down by its center, so the adaptor was needed.
Modern tire machines can do it, but balancing becomes an issue.
Some of them found their way onto hotrods.
DeadSkunk (Warren) said:Wally said:
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :Going by the thin C Pillar and bulge down the side I'm guessing a 61 Catalina. The wheelbase is stock or close to it but the wheel openings are cut larger to fit the bigger race tires and wheels. That car ran as a Late Model in Quebec. Most Late Models at the time would have had a production based body and chassis, reinforced with a full roll cage, the largest V8 allowed by the particular sanctioning body, a manual 3 or 4 speed transmission, the rear modified to use floating hubs, and modified heavy duty suspension bits.
If it's a Canadian car, then it's a Pontiac Laurentian/Parisienne, built on the shorter Chevrolet chassis. It looks like a US Pontiac but the sheet metal won't fit the longer US version. Canadian Pontiacs were just reskinned Chevys from 1955 (possibly earlier) until sometime in the 70s.
From 2018 Turkey Rod Run.
In reply to Suprf1y :
the 90 car here is driven by Doug Warnes (he has passed away recently) he was a mentor to me, a good friend, we built many engines together,
later in my career, he would call me up out of the blue and have a ride lined up, I would just have to haul ass to a track with my gear and get at it.
Thanks for the memory
UK spinoff of Starsky & Hutch.
Talent. 
In reply to warpedredneck :
Yes it is, and I believe that was taken at what is now known as Peterborough speedway?
The Mini and Morris minor were two guys that battled every weekend at the track where my Dad raced, Speedway park i Hamilton.
Dad would drop me off at the front and I would go in and sell programs in the stands while watching the races. He would pick me up at the end of the night. I was 5 or 6. You probably wouldn't do that today
914Driver said:
Somebody really liked Quadrophenia.
Historic homes in NYS have a blue & yellow placard noting the historical event; I'm making one of these in B&Y for my front porch.
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