{"id":1086,"date":"2011-03-08T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T19:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2011-07-05T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T03:48:05","slug":"parnelli-jones-never-did-this-speedycops-nascar-ized-1967-ford-galaxie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Parnelli Jones Never Did This: Speedycop’s NASCAR-ized 1967 Ford Galaxie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n24 Hours of LeMons fanatics have been hoping for a vintage NASCAR-style entry for years, and Legend of LeMons Unununium Medal<\/a> winner Speedycop<\/a> and his henchmen came through at the Southern Discomfort race<\/a> last month. 
 
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\nSouth Carolina artist, racer, and LeMons enabler Walker Canada<\/a> has been working on a 1965 Impala NASCAR replica for LeMons (yes, a couple of teams ran Impalas that year, in spite of zero factory support), but the distance between the absolute basket case<\/del> somewhat challenging starting point and the artist’s conception above meant that the Chevy wasn’t ready for Southern Discomfort. 
 
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\nTeam Police Brutality, however, doesn’t let nickel-and-dime stuff like reality<\/em> deter them from getting their projects done in time for the second day of a LeMons race<\/del> the green flag! 
 
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\nParnelli Jones actually drove a Fairlane in 1967, but Ford styled their full-size and intermediate cars so that they looked nearly identical. 
 
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\nSpeedycop and The Gang really did this project right<\/em>, printing up custom decals that matched the ones used on Parnelli’s Fairlane back in the day. The car looked absolutely amazing. 
 
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\nThe car was very, very rough to start with, but an application of Bondo, blue paint, and a billion hours of sweat made it look great (go here<\/a> for the complete photo gallery). 
 
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\nIt has valid Virginia plates, so the folks living near Kershaw, South Carolina, had the chance to see this machine on the street; you can imagine the reaction in NASCAR-crazed South Carolina. Apparently, dudes were chasing after the car on foot and offering to buy it as it roared by.  
 
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\nThe engine was an EFI 5.0 that was dragged out of a trashed ’68 Torino and dropped into the Galaxie. It ran, but the Galaxie had only been driven a block or so before rolling into the Carolina Motorsports Park paddock on Friday morning. Naturally, there were many<\/del> some issues. 
 
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\nIgnition woes, chronic overheating, the usual stuff that goes wrong with a relatively untested LeMons car. By Sunday morning, however, the Galaxie was running pretty well. 
 
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\nThe Galaxie started the race as a serious Index of Effluency contender, because it was actually fairly terrible under its pretty skin, but the NSF Racing ’62 Fury<\/a> was even more<\/em> terrible; the Fury’s 218 laps were deemed more effluent than the Galaxie’s 243, and the Galaxie had to settle for the Judges’ Choice this time. 
 
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\nThe Judges’ Choice really got nailed down by the culinary contribution of Speedycop and The Gang: Deep-fried Oreos! 
 
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\nWe’ll be seeing the Galaxie again at the Real Hoopties of New Jersey race<\/a> next month, and it will have another shot at a well-deserved IOE. I plan to suit up and drive it this time; I turned down Speedycop’s kind offer of a stint behind the wheel at CMP, because I wanted the team members who’d killed themselves getting the Ford ready to get maximum seat time, but I’ll be hooptying it up in New Jersey!<\/p>\n

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