@@ProjectFairmont the rear end ratio is 2.80:1. Which gearing would you recommend ? Front right brake caliper was leaking, which offset brake bias indeed.
@@spikespa5208 You know shit about the original Stock Car Era. Before any of the Companies could put any of their products on the track, they had to manufacture a certain amount of street-legal cars that had those certain parts in them. Like the Dodge Daytona/Plymouth Superbird combo Vs. anything NASCAR today. NASCAR can top out at what, 180 plus? You could drive the Dodge or the Plymouth to the track, blow every other car's doors off with it's ability to get to 200 MPH, put your trophy in the trunk and then drive it home legally while all of the other Trailor- Queens get carried in a drive of shame.
@sagamorenoonan5237 The only thing that comes to mind since the Olympia brewing company in Olympia Washington closed shop in 2003 would be to see if the logo is free to use and have the shirts printed up.
Dig all the electrical tape on the rollbar padding and the stopwatch on the steering wheel spoke. Racing, like rock and roll, won't ever be this cool again
Beauty and the Beast! Lovely. So..a stock bb Charger is max 3,800 lbs..this car must be a good bit more.. (not that it seems to be an issue, aha!) MUCH roll bar and side tubing! The 426 Hemi in this thing is insane..talk about one growlin' mil! Excellent driving & video, tanks for the memories! 💫🎶🎺🎺💛
@sagamorenoonan5237 Hmm, surprising. Seems like it'd be heavier than stock, bc of the reenforcements. sounds like it's approx the same. thnx for the reply 🙂🏁
@@bangandblame I don't sim race I drive real cars. Never an F1 obviously. But owned an old Dodge Magnum short track cup car. it was wonderful. Heavy but handled well for a big boat . If I still owned it id let you take some laps .I let all my buddies run it around Asheville NC speedway. Still there but a walking bike track.🤢 Rich politicians hate seeing blue collar people have fun..
@@ssnerd583 Nope. The body panels had to meet stock templates through 1987. 1988 was when the templates changed to reflect the NASCAR versions of FWD cars that came along like the Pontiac Grand Prix, Chevy Lumina, Ford Taurus, Dodge Intrepid and Toyota Camry that are *nothing* like their street counterparts. 1974-1977 models could certainly be taken from the showroom and modified to race. Not everyone got bodies in white tuned by Junior Johnson but even those that did had to pass tech. Read the rule books from 1974 through 1977 and you'll notice the words "stock", "standard", "original", "factory" and "production" used when describing many parts. Safter equipment, of course, is not 'stock'.
That car was a pile of OEM parts loosely assembled to look like a car. That is about the end of similarity. These days there is NO OEM parts,,, and V8 rear drive Camrys. Go to your local Toymota dealer for one of those!
@@sagamorenoonan5237The rear in my stock 74 Charger is factory 2.71 (or 2.76) in an 8 3/4 housing. The sound of your car is pure heaven. My little 318 can only dream of sounding like that.
I saw this car running in a vintage race event at Spa, Belgium last June. Great acceleration and sound. Not so great brakes and handling. Not a surprise. But it made me think it would be fun to see modern NASCAR equipment on the Spa circuit which is not as tight as the Sonoma track currently on the NASCAR schedule.
There were 2 NASCAR cars there a 76 Torino from Juney Donleavy team and one of the drivers had LeMans experience being part of the 3 GT40 finish knew of the poor quality of the gas there made them take some compression out of the 351. It was forced to retire do to rear end problems but they saw what his experience had taught him you can see it here on YT. Dich Hutcherson was his name
Holy Mother of Gawd, now THAT'S a shifter. 😁Seriously though, amazing performance, especially since it wasn't designed or engineered for this sort of track.
Yeah, on the gas a touch too early at the apex of the second chicane and she pushed and ran wide. Squirrelly on the brakes for the Mulsanne Corner; that will give you the willies. Mindful of the approaching traffic with those little factory mirrors in the Porsche Curves; excellent. My only authority of LeMans is watching the 24Huers and racing on my tablet in RR3, yet I have raced dirt circle track, including a track championship many years ago. Thanks for living my fantasy.
@@sagamorenoonan5237 Know it as well as a tablet sim and watching on TV can offer, yet, of course, no where as well as you; hence you are living my fantasy of running LeMans in a "stocker". Visceral versus low-end electronic are dramatically different; my old Dirt Track Racing sim time, with a quality wheel and pedals, was vastly different than smelling the fumes and hot oil, feeling the g-forces, sensing the butt meter working overtime, having the dirt fly in your face, hearing every noise as a potential issue while leading, having someone give you the bump and run while you are doing you best to keep it off the outside wall. And no, I have not seen any other videos of your Charger than this one.
@ thanks ! hot oil and fumes are great g-force underlinement, indeed. Here is a link to the nighttime on board: ruclips.net/video/Gb2kzaH_DKs/видео.htmlsi=eAkYjit12JlKUBTo
@@MurraydeLues that was the Heidegger BMW2002. As I opened the hood while in pre-grid to show the Hemi to JP Gagick's TV crew, I noticed that the front left brake caliper was leaking. Instead of going on the pace lap, I went into the pits to join my crew. They checked on the caliper, topped off the brake fluid and sent me out. In the meantime, the race had started. Therefore I had an almost deserted track to myself. The Beemer was the first backmarker that I caught.
Awesome!! Is the car still in Europe and participating in any events in the near future? Really hoping for a chance to get to see it in the flesh, with my son.
Looked like an Alpine-Renault and a Mirage, both Group 6 cars from the '70s (pre-Group C). 2.0 Turbo V6 in the Renault, 3.0 Cosworth DFV in the Mirage.
Lucky if he has power steering. No power brakes, no traction control, minimal firesuit, no hans device. Back when men were men. Suprised he is not chewing on a cigar while turning laps laps in this thing.
He's wearing a HANS. He's wearing a SFI rated suit and a modern helmet. The belts are less than 2 years old. There's a modern fire suppression bottle. WTF are you talking about, Jeff?
Sound is awesome............ nothing like the sound of old school american muscle.......... sure wish we had a shot of outside the car.......... friend had a 74 and well wish I never sold my 69..... Mopar or no car...........
@@paulwortman483 true ! it came from a NASCAR truck, when we went from the A833 to the T101A transmission. There are films with the original shifter on my channel.
That sound is music to any gearhead. Awesome!
It is such a pure sound. You can almost hear the torque in the motor. And the low rev limit.
@@TheSams61truth, the sound of each perfect shift then drops it down for each turn now that's music to my ears
Sounded like every day on the way to school or on the way to work afterward in the mid seventies…. Ahhhh memories
Sounded like my old '69 GTO with Headers and Mufflers. No Side Pipes, no Tail Pipes just a hot as hell floor.
I couldn't afford something like that back then.😊
Old school racing carbureted V8 🤤🤤🤤 The growl between shifts is a symphony.
Absolutely💯
Did we all notice the key in the ignition switch , brilliant.
The song of the 426 NASCAR Hemi has always stirred my soul.
Jesus, look at the throw on that lever.
ydeah, good thing that I got long arms :D
@@sagamorenoonan5237😂
Gearing is all wrong, as is brake bias. And I love it.
@@ProjectFairmont the rear end ratio is 2.80:1. Which gearing would you recommend ?
Front right brake caliper was leaking, which offset brake bias indeed.
@ I think you are prolly where you need to be, 4 speed and all. First is no doubt useful in the tighter stuff.
Ahhh, 7 litres of Chrysler Hemi In a beautiful brute of a car, something I really appreciate, it’s absolutely glorious.
fully agree
Yes. *This is the Elephant.*
You hear this one, as well as see it.
To call it by the European crap is disrespectful sacrilege dang it. 426 hemi
@@darryladams519 the car nut world is unanimous that the 426 Hemi is a legend of its own.
OMG turn right? 🤯
That’s awesome! NASCAR at Lemans! Old school American V8! Love it
The Frenchies love it, too.
That’s a throwback to the real days of NASCAR. Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.
The opposite of Enzo Ferrari. Sell cars in order to go racing.
@@spikespa5208 You know shit about the original Stock Car Era. Before any of the Companies could put any of their products on the track, they had to manufacture a certain amount of street-legal cars that had those certain parts in them. Like the Dodge Daytona/Plymouth Superbird combo Vs. anything NASCAR today. NASCAR can top out at what, 180 plus? You could drive the Dodge or the Plymouth to the track, blow every other car's doors off with it's ability to get to 200 MPH, put your trophy in the trunk and then drive it home legally while all of the other Trailor- Queens get carried in a drive of shame.
@@RobertGuidry-f3f LMAO. This is absolutely untrue.
@@andypage9 Your point?
Beautiful Sound!
Absolutely glorious!!!
This 1974 Charger NASCAR #4 is painted in the Olympia beer livery colors of white body with gold trim. A real stunner
@@ditzydoo4378 I"m looking for Olympia Beer shirts to dress up the crew for next year's race. Would you have an idea where to find some ?
@sagamorenoonan5237 The only thing that comes to mind since the Olympia brewing company in Olympia Washington closed shop in 2003 would be to see if the logo is free to use and have the shirts printed up.
@sagamorenoonan5237 if you have an example, several online companies can recreate those old shirts
True NASCAR right here
Dig all the electrical tape on the rollbar padding and the stopwatch on the steering wheel spoke. Racing, like rock and roll, won't ever be this cool again
Having the time of his life😊
we'll be back there next year !
He was bummed about his exit from the second Mulsanne chicane.
It's poetry in motion! ⚡
Beauty and the Beast! Lovely. So..a stock bb Charger is max 3,800 lbs..this car must be a good bit more..
(not that it seems to be an issue, aha!)
MUCH roll bar and side tubing! The 426 Hemi in this thing is insane..talk about one growlin' mil!
Excellent driving & video, tanks for the memories! 💫🎶🎺🎺💛
@@gzuzsavz it weighs close to 4,000# with me inside and half a tank of gas
@sagamorenoonan5237 Hmm, surprising. Seems like it'd be heavier than stock, bc of the reenforcements. sounds like it's approx the same. thnx for the reply 🙂🏁
2:10,,,, your réaction answered what i was wondering about 😂😂😂
Great driving Sir, this is à wonderful vidéo , well done 👍😃
That’s what an engine should sound like. ❤
That’s a real race car
Real racing,a four speed and a Hemi.
even in sim-racing I have way more fun driving a heavier "stock" car around a track vs a super fast F1 or prototype car
Was the hemi not
already banned from nascar in 1974?
100%!!!
There's no hemi in this car
@@bangandblame I don't sim race I drive real cars. Never an F1 obviously. But owned an old Dodge Magnum short track cup car. it was wonderful. Heavy but handled well for a big boat . If I still owned it id let you take some laps .I let all my buddies run it around Asheville NC speedway. Still there but a walking bike track.🤢 Rich politicians hate seeing blue collar people have fun..
awsome sounds so bad ass , like to see the car though ,..
I know this track very well from Real Racing 3 on my android note 20. Great vid, I love every well-placed Camera angle. Thank you❤❤❤❤
Glad you like it!
the Gran Turismo homies would agree
did you see the nighttime lap yet ? here is the link ruclips.net/video/Gb2kzaH_DKs/видео.htmlsi=8gio5MTfupd-U286
Can you seriously imagine what that monster must sound like for 3 to 500 laps flat out. What a beast.
Nothing beats the sounds of classic American muscle
Sounds so beautiful 🇺🇸 🦅
My man pumping those brakes @ 0:45. Let’s go!
@@FarmHouseMotors yeah, the front left caliper was leaking !!
Hell yea brother 👍🏻👍🏻
I love this era, back when the stock cars could basically be bought and modified right from the showroom floor. you will be missed my sweet
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! The last actual 'stock body' stock car was the 1967 Ford Fairlane......this car is 8 years beyond that
@@ssnerd583 it's also 8 years beyond what your reading level is too by the looks of it.
Not true
@@ssnerd583 Nope. The body panels had to meet stock templates through 1987. 1988 was when the templates changed to reflect the NASCAR versions of FWD cars that came along like the Pontiac Grand Prix, Chevy Lumina, Ford Taurus, Dodge Intrepid and Toyota Camry that are *nothing* like their street counterparts. 1974-1977 models could certainly be taken from the showroom and modified to race. Not everyone got bodies in white tuned by Junior Johnson but even those that did had to pass tech. Read the rule books from 1974 through 1977 and you'll notice the words "stock", "standard", "original", "factory" and "production" used when describing many parts. Safter equipment, of course, is not 'stock'.
That car was a pile of OEM parts loosely assembled to look like a car. That is about the end of similarity. These days there is NO OEM parts,,, and V8 rear drive Camrys. Go to your local Toymota dealer for one of those!
Love it when the touring cars safely and briskly pass!
What a sound...
To me there is no better sound than an old school revved up screaming hemi. You gotta love it.
The sound, the vibrations having to reach three feet between gear shifts. This is good stuff.
Such an amazing sound
Got some tall gears in there. Reminds me of, Win on Sunday sell on Monday. My brother drove a 69, 383 roadrunner and I drove a 73, 340 duster.
yup, it's a 2.80:1 Silver State proven 9 inch
@@sagamorenoonan5237The rear in my stock 74 Charger is factory 2.71 (or 2.76) in an 8 3/4 housing. The sound of your car is pure heaven. My little 318 can only dream of sounding like that.
@@LongIslandMopars thanks
gol dern, theres hope for me n my fatso 2010 camaro. this is talent, this is a car. nice track work.
I saw this car running in a vintage race event at Spa, Belgium last June. Great acceleration and sound. Not so great brakes and handling. Not a surprise. But it made me think it would be fun to see modern NASCAR equipment on the Spa circuit which is not as tight as the Sonoma track currently on the NASCAR schedule.
Have you watched the Camaro GT1 LeMans from last year? That thing made so much noise and blew everyone away because of how good it was on track.
Would like to see this beast being wrestled around the Sears Point.
Every frame is Priceless
@@captianeddie4554 thanks
Perfect in my book. The sound was great....even picked up the two Vettes that passed you. Would love to see the car.
let me know what you think of the nighttime lap. Here is the link ruclips.net/video/Gb2kzaH_DKs/видео.htmlsi=8gio5MTfupd-U286
All this and turning left and right. Legend 🤣
If you pay attention real closely you can actually here each individual explosion in each cylinder!
Mopar or No car
Love it!
sounds awesome. car gets scary light under braking at the end of the mulsanne straight.
Love seeing my generation of Charger kick ass overseas
you bet
What a sound! Must be coming out of a 1974 Quadraphonic sound system.
awesome
Very well done.
my ears, what a sound!
Don't fret blowing a corner. Its only a problem if someone's beside you. LOL. Love the big old Hurst shifter.
Yes, the sound is sweet
Love it.. man I'd love to do that!
Bad to the bone! Love it!
Might not be the fastest…but the sound is addictive…could play this clip over and over…well done sir…😊.
Very cool!
Thx 4 da ride bro❤
My grandfather owned the car and raced the car. Car came out of new Berlin Wisconsin
who of the two USAC drivers was your Grandpa ? Butch Hartmann or Paul Feldner ?
@@sagamorenoonan5237 I should’ve clarified my grandfather is Larry Nau I think he was the builder
They all raced for tru cut
@@sagamorenoonan5237 I have a bunch of pictures before it was reskinned I have tons of pictures from Milwaukee Mile
@@danokerr9929 that's right !! very nice to meet here
Takes a real driver to muscle that car around im impressed you were getting after it.
@@therealnynetynyne360 thanks , but I still feel that there's room for improvement. We'll find out in 2025.
Well the NASCAR Camaro did darn well this year .
There were 2 NASCAR cars there a 76 Torino from Juney Donleavy team and one of the drivers had LeMans experience being part of the 3 GT40 finish knew of the poor quality of the gas there made them take some compression out of the 351. It was forced to retire do to rear end problems but they saw what his experience had taught him you can see it here on YT. Dich Hutcherson was his name
Sounds good!
426 Hemi Poway baby! 😁
What a beast! Imagine doing the 24H in that. LOL!!!
Holy Mother of Gawd, now THAT'S a shifter. 😁Seriously though, amazing performance, especially since it wasn't designed or engineered for this sort of track.
Road racing is just a bunch of drag races connected to each other with corners😎
Yeah, on the gas a touch too early at the apex of the second chicane and she pushed and ran wide. Squirrelly on the brakes for the Mulsanne Corner; that will give you the willies. Mindful of the approaching traffic with those little factory mirrors in the Porsche Curves; excellent. My only authority of LeMans is watching the 24Huers and racing on my tablet in RR3, yet I have raced dirt circle track, including a track championship many years ago. Thanks for living my fantasy.
@@sntstafford wow ! I rekon that you know the big Le Mans track inside out. What do you think of the night time lap, which is also on my channel ?
@@sagamorenoonan5237 Know it as well as a tablet sim and watching on TV can offer, yet, of course, no where as well as you; hence you are living my fantasy of running LeMans in a "stocker".
Visceral versus low-end electronic are dramatically different; my old Dirt Track Racing sim time, with a quality wheel and pedals, was vastly different than smelling the fumes and hot oil, feeling the g-forces, sensing the butt meter working overtime, having the dirt fly in your face, hearing every noise as a potential issue while leading, having someone give you the bump and run while you are doing you best to keep it off the outside wall.
And no, I have not seen any other videos of your Charger than this one.
@ thanks ! hot oil and fumes are great g-force underlinement, indeed. Here is a link to the nighttime on board: ruclips.net/video/Gb2kzaH_DKs/видео.htmlsi=eAkYjit12JlKUBTo
That huge gas pedal
I want my shifter back for my truck man. The Ole blister wants to drive it
Hahahaha
Nice drivin man
Haulin the mail my friend
At least he overtook the Lotus Cortina. Rubber suspension and dodgy brakes. What could possibly go wrong. But Oh so sweet sound of a Hemi.
@@MurraydeLues that was the Heidegger BMW2002. As I opened the hood while in pre-grid to show the Hemi to JP Gagick's TV crew, I noticed that the front left brake caliper was leaking. Instead of going on the pace lap, I went into the pits to join my crew. They checked on the caliper, topped off the brake fluid and sent me out. In the meantime, the race had started. Therefore I had an almost deserted track to myself. The Beemer was the first backmarker that I caught.
@@sagamorenoonan5237 Thanks for that. You went by so quick, the green stripe on white is so Cortina.
Nice!
“Some say he once had DE as a driving instructor, all we know he is the Stig’s hillbilly relative”…..
Dang nabbit man!... almost able to smell the hot oil.. three pedals and a 5 ? speed...AND A HEMI..!!! Hell yes...ahhhh engine music!
No electronic rev matching, just straight double clutching
@@dfong5495 you got that right !
Good on you mates.
Man... to do this someday 😅
Badass
Keyring jiggle is nice
The sound of a wide open V8 is unmatched.
Awesome!! Is the car still in Europe and participating in any events in the near future? Really hoping for a chance to get to see it in the flesh, with my son.
That gas pedal is just a slab of fuckin steel
That's our unofficial national anthem
Oh gosh the sound was nasty that was a real eargasm
No injection
No electronics
Just a pilot an this machine
When was the last time you saw a key in a race car?
Nice video. A bit of perspective when he had to let the two Group C cars rocket by.
Looked like an Alpine-Renault and a Mirage, both Group 6 cars from the '70s (pre-Group C). 2.0 Turbo V6 in the Renault, 3.0 Cosworth DFV in the Mirage.
Is that the Charger of Hershel McGriff Sr that he ran in 76 at Le Mans?
it is painted like the McGriff Charger (of which I have one of the 426 Wedge motors), but it is the 1974 and 1977 USAC championship winning Dodge.
Is the stopwatch on the steering wheel and the movie King of the Hill?
Good car guy flick, has been a long time 👍
Earbuds are a must!
Lucky if he has power steering. No power brakes, no traction control, minimal firesuit, no hans device. Back when men were men. Suprised he is not chewing on a cigar while turning laps laps in this thing.
Minimal firesuit, no HANS...back when men were men?
You admire stupidity?
He's wearing a HANS. He's wearing a SFI rated suit and a modern helmet. The belts are less than 2 years old. There's a modern fire suppression bottle. WTF are you talking about, Jeff?
no power steering indeed ! The HANS is now mandatory in vintage cars newer than 1974. I´ll think about the cigar for 2025 !
You don't want power-assist steering on a race car. Without it, you can feel the road better. I pulled the power steering out of my track car.
Nobody glorifies that Jeff. Remember all the deaths? Dale? Yeah that changes things
Can the camera just stay on the x brace?
He needs to take the restrictor plate off of it that NASCAR required in the day on the Hemis and put it on Talladegas track and stretch it out!
The watch on the steering wheel kinda reminds me of the movie Drive.
we use it for the timing of the mandatory pit stops, where you have to sit still for a minute.
Man, can the big girl move or what? 👍👍
yup, indeed ! 693 hp from a Ray Barton Hemi mated to a Tex T101 and a Speedway Engineering 9 inch
Shes a beaut clark
Hello, nice sounding car. With the 2.80 final drive gear what is the top speed of your car? Must be pretty high with over 600hp from the engine.
yeah, it went past 300 km/h in 4th at 6,500 rpm ! That's about 188 mph
Let Her Eat!!!
Check out how long the shifter throw is.
Sound is awesome............ nothing like the sound of old school american muscle.......... sure wish we had a shot of outside the car.......... friend had a 74 and well wish I never sold my 69..... Mopar or no car...........
@@scottsmith1897 there are more videos on my channel with outside takes of the Charger
kept waiting for another shift.... forgot it's a 4-speed
yup ! a red stripe Mopar 4 speed
There's no way that's the shifter they used back in the day???
@@paulwortman483 true ! it came from a NASCAR truck, when we went from the A833 to the T101A transmission. There are films with the original shifter on my channel.
Man. That's a long throw
Paddle shifting is so lame compared to this 4 speed H. Thanks for the eye and ear treat!