’67 BARRACUDA: PLYMOUTH’S POTENT PONYCAR

Posted on August 16, 2024August 16, 2024 by MartynL

Whatever the ’67 BARRACUDA: PLYMOUTH’S POTENT PONYCAR lacked in power, it more than made up with slick styling and ride & handling! Suddenly the Ponycar market was chock full of new style and power choices. Not long after the ’67 Camaro’s public introduction a potent 302-inch small-block in Z28 trim and big-block 396 engines with up to 375 horsepower appeared. Plymouth upped the ante with a redesigned and very slick Barracuda in fastback and notchback coupe and convertible body styl...

’64 PLYMOUTH BARRACUDA: FIRST PONYCAR

Posted on August 2, 2024August 2, 2024 by MartynL

Contrary to popular belief, the first Ponycar was not a Mustang. Plymouth beat Ford, introducing its compact sporty car - ’64 PLYMOUTH BARRACUDA: FIRST PONYCAR - a couple of weeks earlier! Plymouth introduced its Valiant-based, fastback ’64 PLYMOUTH BARRACUDA: FIRST PONYCAR on April 1st, 1964, edging out Ford’s Mustang reveal on April 17th. A few months later in August, Ford showed its competitive 2+2 fastback. Plymouth may have beaten Ford to the marketplace, but it barely dented Ford’s owners...

RACING’S GREATEST UPSETS: 1966 TRANS-AM ENDURO!

Posted on October 29, 2016May 15, 2017 by MartynL

Stephen Cox blogs about Shelby-American’s legendary Group 2 Mustang racers, Part 2 of 3. The next weekend John McComb was racing again. The Trans-Am Series Six-Hour Pan-American Endurance Race was to be held at Green Valley Raceway in Texas. The sanctioning body mandated a second driver for each team due to the length of the event. McComb chose veteran Brad Brooker, a successful club racer who had logged plenty of miles in the Group 2 notchback’s nearly identical twin, the Shelby GT...

INDYCAR & LUCA FILIPPI: A BRIGHT NEW STAR!

Posted on August 11, 2013May 15, 2017 by MartynL

Stephen Cox blogs about what Luca Filippi means for open-wheel racing. Perhaps I'm the lone voice in the wilderness on this, but I was very impressed with Luca Filippi's IndyCar debut at Mid-Ohio last week. He was fantastic in qualifying. Had he not been penalized, Filippi could have had a starting spot in the first three rows; been a genuine threat on race day. He ran a conservative, nearly mistake-free race and moved from dead last to as high as 11th during the event. Nearly all of his p...