First high-speed test, 1969 Charger Daytona at Chelsea Proving grounds, July 1969

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Anybody notice the thin pipe-like object sticking out of the center of the roof in the back-end view of DC-93?
That's a yaw sensor used during high-speed testing.

The car cover even had a spot for it to fit. The back of the cover was made to fit around the wing, not over it.

 

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Makes me wonder how fast they could have gone with modern tire technology.

Faster with tires that are not hockey pucks and modern shock tech. They still have a lot of frontal area compared to a modern car. Would be a heck of a thing to see.

 

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What is the "Fake 88"?

Chrysler prepared the low speed #71 car (shown below) and had it painted like the #88 for museum donation. By the time the donation was made, the real 88 car was racing in USAC with Don White as a '73 Charger. The older mule car had no racing value, where the real 88 was a viable race car at the end of 1970.