Re: top speed for a 21 super clipper with 356 cu. in

Posted by Tim Cole On 2020/3/2 18:49:55

I remembered a situation today from years ago.

Billy Hirsch got in a race on the Garden State Parkway.

It was his low mileage 49 Custom 8 with overdrive against a 40 160 sedan without overdrive. Both throttles were held wide open. The Custom 8 won, but not by a spectacular margin, and the speedometer in the 160 was reading 105. Of course those gauges aren't very accurate so the actual speeds were somewhere in the 90's.