1969 car and driver scans..

[abodyjoe]

couple neat thins i stumbled on to in an old magazine.

 

[67redcudavert]

I discovered Car and Driver as a freshman in high school in the fall of 65. There was a magazine rack in study hall and C&D was on it. After reading about one of the editors exploits while taking a Hemi Dodge on a summer camping trip I was hooked and got a subscription. I still subscribe today.

I really liked their irreverent writing style, especially Brock Yates, and they did some pretty zany stuff and then wrote about it.

They did some pretty good road test articles. In 66 they wanted to do a comparison test of all the muscle cars, or as they were called at the time, supercars. So they approached GM, Ford and Chrysler for test cars. Chrysler refused to participate, saying that there would be cheating. How true that proved to be. They ended up with six cars, a 390 Ford Fairlane GTA, 390 Comet Cyclone, Tripower GTO, Skylark GS, SS 396 Chevelle and Cutlass 442.

The Fairlane showed up on a truck from Holman & Moody, the Cyclone showed up on a truck From Bud Moore ent. where they had been sent "to make sure everything was torqued right." The GTO came from Royal Pontiac, a Detroit area Pontiac dealer famous for their performance tweaks on new Pontiacs. The Chevelle, 442 and Buick suffered problems from lack of prep. The results were lopsided, to say the least.

Two months later they did a test on a 66 Hemi Satellite. It outperformed all the other cars.

Two months later there was an editorial about how "we've been had," saying that the Fairlane, Cyclone, GTO and Satellite had been tweaked for better performance and were not representative of a stock vehicle.

Articles such as this and others like them always made for interesting reading.

 

[nm9stheham]

C&D was always very good for doing their own projects. They actually did a lot of the work THEMSELVES.... so they actually had some car brains. Being an Opel rally car guy, their turbo 1.9L project was of great interest to me.

 

[ocdart]

My parents gave me a subscription to C&D just before my 16th birthday saying it would make me a safer driver.
I don't think they ever looked at an issue before that and had no idea what the content was all about.

 

[clifftt]

C&D was always very good for doing their own projects. They actually did a lot of the work THEMSELVES.... so they actually had some car brains. Being an Opel rally car guy, their turbo 1.9L project was of great interest to me.

I remember when SCCA started a new class called Showroom Stock, C&D test drove the candidate cars: an Opel, Vega, Pinto, Fiat 124, there were some others. The Opel 1900 was the fastest around the track. Not the fastest car, but the best balanced.

My first two cars were Opels: a ‘69 Kadette Rallye and a ‘72 Manta Rallye. Honestly, if I found a Manta for sale today, I’d consider buying it.

 

[Abodybomber]

I discovered Car and Driver as a freshman in high school in the fall of 65. There was a magazine rack in study hall and C&D was on it. After reading about one of the editors exploits while taking a Hemi Dodge on a summer camping trip I was hooked and got a subscription. I still subscribe today.

I really liked their irreverent writing style, especially Brock Yates, and they did some pretty zany stuff and then wrote about it.

They did some pretty good road test articles. In 66 they wanted to do a comparison test of all the muscle cars, or as they were called at the time, supercars. So they approached GM, Ford and Chrysler for test cars. Chrysler refused to participate, saying that there would be cheating. How true that proved to be. They ended up with six cars, a 390 Ford Fairlane GTA, 390 Comet Cyclone, Tripower GTO, Skylark GS, SS 396 Chevelle and Cutlass 442.

The Fairlane showed up on a truck from Holman & Moody, the Cyclone showed up on a truck From Bud Moore ent. where they had been sent "to make sure everything was torqued right." The GTO came from Royal Pontiac, a Detroit area Pontiac dealer famous for their performance tweaks on new Pontiacs. The Chevelle, 442 and Buick suffered problems from lack of prep. The results were lopsided, to say the least.

Two months later they did a test on a 66 Hemi Satellite. It outperformed all the other cars.

Two months later there was an editorial about how "we've been had," saying that the Fairlane, Cyclone, GTO and Satellite had been tweaked for better performance and were not representative of a stock vehicle.

Articles such as this and others like them always made for interesting reading.

A special magazine issue came out ,in the late 80's,early 90's...
It was wonderful, it died a moldful death.
However the editor of that magazine issue ,made a hardback version of such. Mostly Popular Hot Rodding road tests ,it really opens your eyes up....

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