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F5 Racer 11/16/12 2:40 PM

Running SC car on dirt and pavement?
 
I know it probably not done very often but is it possible to run a silver crown car on both dirt and pavement with moderate changes? Thanks

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bstevenson0 11/16/12 2:52 PM

I know that Rob Chaney ran an Eagle pavement silver crown car on dirt only

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DAD 11/16/12 5:03 PM

Re: Running SC car on dirt and pavement?
 

Originally Posted by bstevenson0:
I know that Rob Chaney ran an Eagle pavement silver crown car on dirt only

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They used to do it all the time in pre-historic times (up to about the 80's or so). But then the desire to win was so great that they went to special dirt and pavement chassis cars. The car counts just kinda of started going down after that. Guess the cost of the extra equipment cut out a few of the teams. Same thing happened to sprints and midgets go figure.

Wonder if they could learn to get by on one chassis again? But that wouldn't be fair to the richer teams would it.

Honest Dad himself:6::6:

ThrowbackRacingTeam 11/16/12 5:56 PM

Re: Running SC car on dirt and pavement?
 
Pavement cars can work awesome on rubber down dirt with a few changes. Which changes you may ask? Sorry, but I'll only give that away for the price of what it cost me.

Dick Monahan 11/16/12 6:39 PM

Re: Running SC car on dirt and pavement?
 
The answer is to not let them combine points for two cars. That's the way it used to be.

DaveP63 11/16/12 6:49 PM

Re: Running SC car on dirt and pavement?
 
You could, yes. It used to be quite common especially with midgets before people started building specialty cars.

racephoto1 11/16/12 7:28 PM

Re: Running SC car on dirt and pavement?
 
We did it up until the early 90's. Then the chassis for pavement got so specialized a dirt car was non competitive on pavement.

sprntr 11/16/12 7:41 PM

Re: Running SC car on dirt and pavement?
 
Nix's last 43 car was a Beast Combo chassis.

steiny
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koolaid89 11/16/12 7:58 PM

Re: Running SC car on dirt and pavement?
 
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SC90 11/16/12 10:11 PM

Re: Running SC car on dirt and pavement?
 
I am glad that Steiny mentioned that Ricky Nix ran a Beast combo car. I believe Gary Hieber ran a combo car at Nazareth on the pavement. I might be wrong about that...just going by my very vague memory.


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