Pretty cool find on YouTube of Larry Shaw chassis from back in the day.
https://youtu.be/G3Xq8ADUpEs
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Pretty cool find on YouTube of Larry Shaw chassis from back in the day.
https://youtu.be/G3Xq8ADUpEs
They sure gave The King a great product !
Very cool. I loved the look of late models in that era.
I'd put most of the praise in not so much product but in the kings hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raceready
Yeah: And believe or not he is still winning [Believe it or not] in the recently lowly Longhorn brand ! !Quote:
Originally Posted by Black F
If you beat Purvis, trust me, you’ve done something to tell the grandkids about.
Side note: I alway see Geisler running upfront a lot at Pennsboro, but i don't believe he ever got a victory
Richard Petty???? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Raceready
It had a big old HEMI in it !Quote:
Originally Posted by Buford.Justice
my first late model was a 1999 shaw I bought used in 01 , they had also started building rockets and was working with dale McDowell , kevin shaw helped me basically convert it to a rocket , the strait shaw was no good in the slick , we ran well at the beginning of the year but went to sh!t by june , we finally got up front and won a few , advice from shane , dales brother , helped tremendously , those were good days when you could whack a few bars here and there and change things and get faster pretty quick , chassis today are nothing more than clones of each other ,
Amazing how much beefier the frames were back then! That 2x3 tubing makes it look like an asphalt car.
And with less technology and less power than todays cars but still set track records that are still not broken or only coming close to nowadays. I guess the drivers back then were just a different breed.
Billy Moyer was married to Shaw's daughter, after all.
I think he was married to Larry's sister...Quote:
Originally Posted by JimBo
For a few season very light weight "wedge" cars with sideboards and high rear spoilers allowed the cars to go wide open much longer on the track, was one reason some of the records have never been broker. Some of them cars actually weighed under 1800 lbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mopar DLM
A lot of tracks were tackier 30 to 40 years back also, which allowed for faster times.
700 HP back then compared to 900 HP today. Just shows that xtra HP is good for qualifying and heats because most of it can't be used on a slick race track
Billy Moyer won alot of the 800+ wins in his shaw cars for sure. but eventually shaw quit caring about lm's and switched to mods. RTJ would probably admit his favorite mod he drove was his shaw mod.
lol there's not a record still standing anywhere from back then, wedge or not. If there is I'd like to see evidence. I watched a wedge race from Concord on YouTube and they looked slow even for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mopar DLM