So where are these 500, 1966 Barracudas?
Thanks for all the pics. None of those appear to be FIA legal cars.
I started to chase this after a trip to Goodwood a few years ago. This is actually how I wound up with a 1965 Barracuda in my driveway.
We were at the Goodwood Revival, which is vintage racing with a cutoff at 1966. They are connected to the FIA, an try very hard to have cars that follow the specs. I took a lot of pics of things that interested me, and had a great time. Then I looked through my wife's camera card, and found a lot of pics of one Barracuda:
I ran down the owner and found out that it was built to "FIA 535", but was restricted to a 273 because the 318 was not available in 1965. He built the car, and his son was the driver. Kid was tossing the little car around pretty hard too. If you are not familiar with that track, the turn you are looking at has a decreasing radius and a camber change. He was hanging the back end out on every lap:
You could hear that little 273 before you could see the car - the wife said it "sounded different" He was spanking the mustangs with it, and we both liked that. Even the Dart that was out there did not have a chance...
He passed a lot of cars, some of them in that corner. He could gobble up the mustangs, but he could not get past the Thunderbolts on the track. I think this guy just moved out of his way:
It was clear that my wife wanted a Barracuda. 40 frames of one car. We both dislike mustangs. She was not fond of my Thunderbolt. So I went shopping for a Barracuda. First mopar in my driveway since 1974.
I had been looking for a copy of "535" for a long time. The language barrier with the FIA is a pain in the butt. Many thanks to Team Starfish for running this document down - were it not for a bilingual canadian the FIA would never have dragged up a 47 year old document.
Thanks for all the pics. None of those appear to be FIA legal cars.
I started to chase this after a trip to Goodwood a few years ago. This is actually how I wound up with a 1965 Barracuda in my driveway.
We were at the Goodwood Revival, which is vintage racing with a cutoff at 1966. They are connected to the FIA, an try very hard to have cars that follow the specs. I took a lot of pics of things that interested me, and had a great time. Then I looked through my wife's camera card, and found a lot of pics of one Barracuda:
I ran down the owner and found out that it was built to "FIA 535", but was restricted to a 273 because the 318 was not available in 1965. He built the car, and his son was the driver. Kid was tossing the little car around pretty hard too. If you are not familiar with that track, the turn you are looking at has a decreasing radius and a camber change. He was hanging the back end out on every lap:
You could hear that little 273 before you could see the car - the wife said it "sounded different" He was spanking the mustangs with it, and we both liked that. Even the Dart that was out there did not have a chance...
He passed a lot of cars, some of them in that corner. He could gobble up the mustangs, but he could not get past the Thunderbolts on the track. I think this guy just moved out of his way:
It was clear that my wife wanted a Barracuda. 40 frames of one car. We both dislike mustangs. She was not fond of my Thunderbolt. So I went shopping for a Barracuda. First mopar in my driveway since 1974.
I had been looking for a copy of "535" for a long time. The language barrier with the FIA is a pain in the butt. Many thanks to Team Starfish for running this document down - were it not for a bilingual canadian the FIA would never have dragged up a 47 year old document.
