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Offline GH

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Body class AIR????
« on: July 15, 2018, 03:11:17 PM »
I was looking in the pre-entry list and ran across this body class. What is it?

Offline desotoman

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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2018, 03:26:47 PM »
It stands for American Iron Roadster. A Gas/Fuel roadster powered by an American gas powered iron production car or light truck motor made prior to 1973, with only one engine class which is a C engine. 306"-372". And some other stuff but that is the basics.

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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2018, 05:44:45 PM »
Iron OEM heads which may be ported and such. Kind of an econo roadster class.

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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2018, 02:10:08 PM »
Iron OEM heads which may be ported and such. Kind of an econo roadster class.

Econo.... You spend $40000 or so if you can.....
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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2018, 04:31:43 PM »
Different people have different spending habits.

Offline Ron Gibson

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« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2018, 05:04:13 PM »
Yeh, some spend $100,000 on an econo class. :-D :-D

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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2018, 03:11:23 PM »
The class should have never allowed Chevrolet V8's or Chrysler Hemi's. The thought was good...execution was poor. The plan was for older other engines. Buick, Olds, Studebaker, Packard, Merc, Lincoln, etc....never going to happen.
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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2018, 03:42:11 PM »
Would the 351 Cleveland fall into the AIR plan?

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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2018, 04:03:47 PM »
JD,

Some engines lend themselves to rules restrictions better than others. There are still 10s of 1000s of roadsters "out there" that have yet to surface.

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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2018, 04:22:00 PM »
Would the 351 Cleveland fall into the AIR plan?

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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2018, 04:24:53 PM »
351 Cleveland with a date code of 1969 through 1972 are allowed. No trick one-offs. The burden of proof is on you so if your not used to DW scrutiny than play it safe. Of course it only matters in impound.
 
I like the class but side with JD & DW, you got to really want to prove something to try this in its current form.

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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2018, 04:47:11 PM »
The class never made a dent in what it supposedly was created for.  Outmoded engines can run in any Roadster, Coupe, Lakester, and Streamliner displacement class they want.  The older cars are usually outmoded in areas besides their engines.  Usually their owners (and/or drivers) are getting ancient, too.

Thinking it's a low-buck entry class is not quite the truth, either, when you're running against Mariani, Davidson and Stringfellow.
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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2018, 06:22:30 PM »
Well said Mr. Kit..
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« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2018, 06:49:41 PM »
Had the rules makers required the engines to be single rocker shaft engines only, the class may have evolved as imagined. As it is it seems pointless to me and others.

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Re: Body class AIR????
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2018, 05:01:55 PM »
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