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April 16, 2023 at
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Sprint cars often pull wheelstands coming out of turns, especially wingless....
I never watched sprint cars until 2010, but was a drag racing fan back in the 1960s, when "wheelies" were common...
My question is, have sprint cars been doing this all along, back in the "good ole days"?
I know it doesn't help, but its cool to see....
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April 16, 2023 at
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Posted By: revjimk on April 16 2023 at 01:49:35 PM
Sprint cars often pull wheelstands coming out of turns, especially wingless....
I never watched sprint cars until 2010, but was a drag racing fan back in the 1960s, when "wheelies" were common...
My question is, have sprint cars been doing this all along, back in the "good ole days"?
I know it doesn't help, but its cool to see....
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I've been going to dirt sprint car racing since 1968 and they have been poppin' wheelies as long as I can remember.
Back in the days of the spring front (leaf spring) the left front tire might not touch the track all the way around (if it was a short and flat track). Of course there were no wings then either. How far the technology has progressed.
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April 16, 2023 at
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Posted By: revjimk on April 16 2023 at 01:49:35 PM
Sprint cars often pull wheelstands coming out of turns, especially wingless....
I never watched sprint cars until 2010, but was a drag racing fan back in the 1960s, when "wheelies" were common...
My question is, have sprint cars been doing this all along, back in the "good ole days"?
I know it doesn't help, but its cool to see....
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Wheelie contests in Cali were always a fun event
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April 17, 2023 at
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Thanks guys
Dietrich always seems to pop 'em coming off Turn 4 at Lincoln 
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April 17, 2023 at
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The short answer is no. Pre-mid 80's sprint cars did not pull wheelies like you see today. Lifting the left front in the corners is not a wheelie. When the engines got lighter, I would estimate mid 80's, it began to happen on 1/4 miles. I didn't see it on a half mile until early 90's. I remember that one vividly at Terre Haute.
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April 17, 2023 at
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Probably the first wheelies that I saw were in around 1964 when Chuck Amati, the One Arm Bandit, was driving a car powered by a 427 Ford engine with three four-barrel carburetors at the Arena Park Speedway in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. When he got on the throttle coming out of a turn, the entire front of the car would leave the ground, not just the left front. It was a complete wheelie. .
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April 18, 2023 at
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Posted By: sprintfanatic on April 17 2023 at 08:46:12 AM
Probably the first wheelies that I saw were in around 1964 when Chuck Amati, the One Arm Bandit, was driving a car powered by a 427 Ford engine with three four-barrel carburetors at the Arena Park Speedway in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. When he got on the throttle coming out of a turn, the entire front of the car would leave the ground, not just the left front. It was a complete wheelie. .
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3 Four barrels???
Never hoid of that before....
Any photos?
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April 18, 2023 at
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Posted By: revjimk on April 18 2023 at 10:24:10 AM
3 Four barrels???
Never hoid of that before....
Any photos?
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That is what Chuck told me some years ago. I did not question him on this. I know that Ford made a tri-power manifold for three two-barrel carbs and I have seen one of them on a 427 in a Galaxie at a car show. Also, there is the dual quad for two four-barrels. It may actually have been one of these. They did not allow fuel injection at that track until a few years later. I may check with Chuck's grandson on this, but he would have been very young at that time.
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April 18, 2023 at
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Posted By: sprintfanatic on April 18 2023 at 03:34:56 PM
That is what Chuck told me some years ago. I did not question him on this. I know that Ford made a tri-power manifold for three two-barrel carbs and I have seen one of them on a 427 in a Galaxie at a car show. Also, there is the dual quad for two four-barrels. It may actually have been one of these. They did not allow fuel injection at that track until a few years later. I may check with Chuck's grandson on this, but he would have been very young at that time.
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I googled it (3 fours, not Chuck) & it seems to be mystery/controversy. Somebody may have tried it at one point in time, but if so, its rare & never caught on
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April 18, 2023 at
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