Durability Run 1964

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Durability Run 1964

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The 100,000 mile durability run video.
Posted today on Bangshift.com

https://bangshift.com/bangshiftapex/196 ... t-daytona/

I doubt if any manufacturer would go to this extreme today.
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Couple of observations toward the end:
1. As one of the drivers leaves the pit to resume the run, you can see a cigarette in his mouth. :shock:
2. In an over-the-shoulder scene of one of the drivers you can read the tach. Looks like they were taching around 5300 rpm.
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Jims65cyclone wrote:Couple of observations toward the end:
1. As one of the drivers leaves the pit to resume the run, you can see a cigarette in his mouth. :shock:
2. In an over-the-shoulder scene of one of the drivers you can read the tach. Looks like they were taching around 5300 rpm.
Jim

Jim,

Gotta love the smokes, I mean how else could they complete 100,000 miles in one go! :lol:

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Awesome - thx for posting it!!
'cause Johno says you gotta have a sig pic! :)
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wasn't many non-smokers back in those days......would've been hard to find a no smokeing crew.... :shock: :lol: pop
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what an event and a great clip.Wish they where 65's .. had to say it.
I bet it sold some cars

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Do you suppose they essentially ran WOT the entire time to achieve that average speed? Jam your foot to the floor and steer...
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Groover wrote:Do you suppose they essentially ran WOT the entire time to achieve that average speed?
They never did say how fast they were running to average this speed, they said the pit stops figured in this and I would assume they weren't driving 100 MPH in a hurricane, my guess would be they were in the 125 MPH range.

I wonder if they made any changes to the line after this, maybe that is why '65s got improved steering geometry. They kept that basic platform for so long from the '60 Falcon/Comet through to the Maverick/Comet in the '70s until replaced by the Fox platform in 1980s.

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5300 at 125 sounds about right.
when I first got my Comet, 289 4 speed 3.25 gears g78 -14 rear tires I ran the car to red line in 4th, as I remember it went off the end of the speedo
well before 5500 when the valves started to float.
up there its kinda like boating your just guiding it along!!!
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