Buddy Bakers Daytona

[odcics2]

And here is the breakdown of the engine pad...
a plain old street hemi...

BH426
B = 1966 model year
H = HEMI
WT = water tested after assembled
426 = 426 cu.in.
4 20 03
4 20 = Wednesday 4/20/66 (EAD) Engine Assembly Date
03 = 3rd engine completed that day

And why not?  This was intended as a show car, never saw the race track as a Daytona...

[Ghoste]

I was going to make a joke about running the pipes out the left side of the car so they could impress the hell out of the Mopar fans in the stands and terrify the Brand X ones but then I got to thinking it could have been done to allow the driver to talk to the crew in the pits in the pre-radio days.

[wingcar]

WOW, thanks for the detailed pictures.....the car has really nice worksmanship.....

[Aero426]

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=6972526

Good info.

[pettybird]

so another odd race car question...did they use the standard mechanical voltage regulator like that?  How about for 70?

[Aero426]

so another odd race car question...did they use the standard mechanical voltage regulator like that?  How about for 70?

Mine has an electronic voltage regulator.

[Ghoste]

From 1970?

[Aero426]

From 1970?

Looks like 2875400.   Believe that is a '69 Imperial part.

[Old Moparz]

Controversy or not, this would be a cool car to have at Carlisle.  

Now if I owned it, I'd drive it & I'd probably have my first speeding ticket (among others) in years.  

[pettybird]

Looks like 2875400.   Believe that is a '69 Imperial part.

yep.  46th week of '68, so I'd imagine that the new for '69 race cars would have been electronic.

[Ghoste]

Cool, and makes sense too.

[tan top]

From 1970?

Looks like 2875400.   Believe that is a '69 Imperial part.

three wire  regulator !!    

[odcics2]

Nice work on the photos, Tan Top!   


Anyone notice the STOCK production '70 charger hood???  Not the typical race Daytona hood with the 'edge' on it.

Also - a stock front valance, stock wing braces & wing.  It does NOT have the retaining cable!!!!!!!!  Or the hole in the wing
to run the cable to the trunk floor!   

(we know about the choke and the stock alternator and upper radiator hose from the local parts store!)

[pettybird]

three wire  regulator !!    

now why would that ignition terminal be there?  The regulator is a variable ground. 

them crazy chrysler folks, I tell ya.

[1RareBird]

It's so obvious this car was never raced in its current Daytona configuration.  Way too many inconsistencies with real race Daytona's. Its good to see the light being shown on the car for what it really is/was. Don't get me wrong, its a cool piece of history but so many times you hear bogus stories about these cars without anyone questioning them.

[Ghoste]

Especially when the bogus story is being put out there by the person who otherwise could have been the most credible witness.

[Aero426]

Especially when the bogus story is being put out there by the person who otherwise could have been the most credible witness.

It is unfortunate that story got put out there when the car left Spartanburg.   It did result in a large pay day.

[Ghoste]

Which is all he really wanted.

[tan top]

more recent  pictures of the Buddy baker #6 / show car / ?

 
http://justacarguy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-1st-car-in-nascar-over-200mph-buddy.html

[Stevearino]

more recent  pictures of the Buddy baker #6 / show car / ?

 
http://justacarguy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-1st-car-in-nascar-over-200mph-buddy.html

Nice pictures but what is with the massive amount of pure BS on that placard?

[Aero426]

more recent  pictures of the Buddy baker #6 / show car / ?

 
http://justacarguy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-1st-car-in-nascar-over-200mph-buddy.html

Nice pictures but what is with the massive amount of pure BS on that placard?

So deep, it is shovel ready.

[Ghoste]

Nice that the comment on that blog directs readers to this thread.

[6bblgt]

Not that it matters, but that's a pair of '68 Charger doors on the CANEPA #6 Daytona. 

[Aero426]

Not that it matters, but that's a pair of '68 Charger doors on the CANEPA #6 Daytona.  

[odcics2]

Not that it matters, but that's a pair of '68 Charger doors on the CANEPA #6 Daytona.  

LOL, I noticed that, too.  And why would Cotton give Chrysler new , 69 doors when he built it for them?  Same reason he dropped a standard street hemi in it!     He figured, who'd care for a show car??   (The "Fake 88" Daytona at Talladega also has 68 doors on it, since it was a 1968 built "2x2" car... )