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Doug T (2/19/2013)
SN 1000009 a very early production number!
Just a WAG at how fast they were really going. They took exactly 20 days and couldn't have been getting that good milage so say refueling every 200 mi. That would take under 2 hours to reach so 12 times a day. Plus tires every 2500 miles or once a day. So they were probably on the salt running about 22 hours a day which means actually running about 117 mph. Fast but boring probably.
Didn't FoMoCo do the same thing in the '60s with 289 Comets?Yes, they started with 6 Comets at Daytona Raceway, 5 finished - one broke a valve spring. Ran 100,000 miles @ 106 mph. I'd never heard of the run in the '57 with a Y. Very impressive on a flat track with a heavy car. The pics in the ad didn't look like it had seat belts. Can that be?
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Great to see a piece of history like that. Doug, seems like I do remember something like that with the 289 Comets? I like the way it was "restored" not overdone. I hope it goes somewhere that we all get the chance to see it firsthand.
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Interesting data plate to me with the 'M'...
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SN 1000009 a very early production number! Just a WAG at how fast they were really going. They took exactly 20 days and couldn't have been getting that good milage so say refueling every 200 mi. That would take under 2 hours to reach so 12 times a day. Plus tires every 2500 miles or once a day. So they were probably on the salt running about 22 hours a day which means actually running about 117 mph. Fast but boring probably. Didn't FoMoCo do the same thing in the '60s with 289 Comets?
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Interesting, but I'm a bit confused. I've never seen the article in Life, although I'm aware of it. However, I was under the impresson that 2 cars were used in the assault & setting of the several national & international records. Maybe someone can clarify that point.. Apparently, the late Jerry Unser had quite a year with the new 1957 Fords, by winning the USAC Stock car championship & the stock car class at Pikes Peak. Also that year, he won the first stock car race held at Riverside raceway.
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For that kind of money it better have a Mummert tuned Y block
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From Craigslist San Diego. http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/cto/3626183575.htmlAdvertised as the world's rarest 57 Fairlane this is said to be the car that averaged 107MPH for 51,403 miles at Bonneville in September 1956. Interesting piece of history for only a buck and quarter. 
http://ford-y-block.com 20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico 
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