I'm a Wagon and Sedan Delivery kind of guy, so this photo really gets my attention. I'd like to have a Wagon like this for a daily driver! It was a great time! I am Butch/56sedandelivery
Interesting point about the surviving doors car is that this body with the factory paint job, replaced the original 68 car that was wrecked in a towing accident. Picture must be late in the 68 season , at Island Dragway, Great Meadows, N.J.
Pretty sure that was taken at New England Dragway. Pictures of the earlier car( this is the one I remember seeing) .
Looks like a couple of those Galaxies Tommyd posted a couple pages back are running Traction Masters. Anyone have any experience with them? I'd like to run a set of these on our Galaxie if they work. Look more period correct than Caltracs. When did slapper bars make their apperance? Kevin
Traction Masters were effective at eliminating the aggravating and destructive effects of "wheel hop" by converting the front half of the leaf spring from a "spring" to a solid bar with predictable effects on the ride quality of a street machine. They were ineffective at promoting chassis "lift" since they incorporated fixed mounting points, both under the axle and at the front of the spring. I first became aware of "slapper bars" in late 1968 but I suspect that they had been around for a couple of years before that. I remember seeing a set of Lakewood bars in use on a car in the spring of 1969 at an eighth-mile track at Beardstown, Illinois but that couldn't have been an early adaptation. I'd been out of the loop for over a year at that point due to a stint in graduate school.
Like Baron,I have run them on an early Mustang,and with a hot street 302 and a set of M/T 26x10.5-15" ET Street cheater slicks,you could leave at 6200rpm,and get zero tire spin.It would just drag the motor down Scott
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