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    ,VOLUME 26

    NUMBER: m

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    waiting in.the wings.Jean-Pierre Jarier said at Imola during the Sportscat racethere that he may look for a different Formula One 'ridefor next

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    za4z AUTOWEEK" MONTHLY BUYERS GUIDE

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    JUNE 5. 1976 AUTOWEEK) AUTOWEEK. MONTHLY BUYERS GUID

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    W a Yrrborouch's Holly Farms Chickan Chavy gets a taste of the WASCAR body t e l ( p l m ~ ~ ~ , i f ilwl.Vrrbcawgh finished third. .. . . .. , lh good yea^lira company the pits in mars w i a l shuttleburar provids6by the'Yhousands"of club memb~sook the tour. ,i

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    ---- -, - 'JUNE 5, 1976

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    ??>> - .-i7&-&q.2PAGE 3 0 &*>& 2 AUTOWEEK JUNE 5. 1976

    When th, ...,.. ,,,.,,,... ....,-.......r .--., ,..-.More lndyContinued R o m ag e 27As wlth hls first lwac. this one wassaluted with a yellow flag. Almostsimultaneously. SteveKrisiloff stall edatthe north end and teammate JohnnyParsons threw a shoe in the samevicinity. Both eventuaily mad e it hack tothe pits and rejoined the race.Under green. Foyt opened an elght.second margin over Rutnerford. brokenswaybar and all. But Johnny began tomake up the d istance and , on la p 80, madethe pass on A.J. in turr three. At thisstage, Rutherford. Foyt. Johncock.Carter, Bobby U.. nd Snevanyerethe onlycontenders on the leadiq: lap.As the sky over 16th Street darkenednoticeably. Rutherford held firm withFoyt about a second behind. When Jer ryGrant's AMC-poeemdEagl erambled o astop in turn three at lap 81 , there atas ayellour flag, a plethora of pit stops. andthe aura of mpending controversy.Foyt came out of the ? its and found

    A POSITION W E MAINTAIN.WITH PRIDETHROUGH SRVIC E.I

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    himself 15 seconds in arre ars. It was atthat very moment that A. J , beganu-ondering about the subject of cheati ngon tile pacer lights.Pancho Carter got everyone's attentionfocused on the subject. u~av ingf rant ical lyat the fo lks on the flag stand and pointingbehind the number 48 works Eagle. Backthere. but not very far back. were Mr.Rutherford and Mr. Dallenbach and.according to Carter, they weren't therewhen the yellow light went on."The front runners werecheatingq uitea bit." Pancho charge dlat er. "Rutherfordand Dallenbach usere plcking u p on melike crazy. In fact. they ar ere soclose theygot by me in the first turn when thegr eencame back out."It quickly became a tempest in arainsto rm when the fir* sprinkle smovedin at lap 100.The race went two mom la psunder the yellow, which made it anofficial race, the rain thickened, and PatVidan hauled out the red flag for the thirdtime in th e last four Mays.As soon a s he unstrapped himself. Foyttook up the matter with first his crew.then Tyler Alexander of Team McLaren.and then with any Speeduray officia lwhowould listen. The uptight Texan wassaylng som eth~ ng bout "Right baingrlght and wrong being wrong." andwondertrig why no penalty u'as beinglevied again st the only nlan in fro nt ofhim in the order.That other Texan was sta iln g muchcooler. "I wasn't doing anythingoutth erethat everybody else wasn't: I wa s justkeeoinn un with the field." saidR u ; h e ~ o r d ' I hrnk A.J and hle peopleare forgett rng that he made flve pltstopsand nre made only four."Ultimately the st orm calmed down and.in the words of J im O ilmore. "USACclarified the positio ns of the ca rs for therestart."Things settled intoa burry-up-and-waitpattern. The crowd of nearly 400.WO.largest in Speedu.ay history, wRsrestless, but placated by the officialpromises to get the show going if at 1 1possible.In the pits. a lot of people were gettingwell. With almost everyone reportinghandlinP omblem s of one sort or another..elegacy of Goodyear's cutbackbinations from nearly infinate

    to a very flnltc l w o , th_e two-h our delaygave them the chance to do some sortingout.There also was discussion of fuelconsumption calculations. but mostconceded thatall th ? yellou~runningurasgoing to head off any last- minute calls tonPEC-By 2:40pm. it see n~ edhat everyonn nusgoing toget what he wanted. namely moreof the Indy 500.The track appeared t o beready, except for a patch or two ofdampness along the ~n sid e f the frontstretch and in the pitlane-which, a s Mr.Foyt and some others would point out.wasn't exactly prime racing territory.Noup A.J. u'xs a study in nervousenergy. The swaybar on his sli ck Coyotereplaced he paced along the pitwall.a c h i n g f o r h i s c h a n c e a t t h a tunprecedented fourth Indy victory. Butthe rains came in again. just as the orderwent out to fire up the cars.Foyt cheared hard on hi s gum, started towalk the wrong way doum the pit lane.like a man who had lost his uray. and thenheaded for his varaue. "If mv car had. .stayed well. u'ec*.uld naverun an'ay (rumthem thls IS all pretty dlagustlng" hewa s heard to say dejectedly.Even Johnny R. coulrln't argue withFoyt, at least not b y . I a g l e M I 1187 58 8 12 Bobby Unrrr l n l e M I " 1 8 1 5 2 0 13 Rae"YtC1vtL.l i l w l ~ n ~ : W I ~ .86 IW . I4 lohnnr Pr,rans 110.-Dl!! 18 2 14 1 15 lohn M a l t l o O l a p M l r 1 8 2 4 1 1 16 DillJlwn Y o l l f t d l O l l ? . 18 2 $4 1 I1 Yn S c h u p p n 1112011 18BINP"INOIU,b I I I I I 011, 18 2 W 2 I Y Y. , ,o lnd , . l l , Yrblrnmrr 1 8 9 4 0 4 20 b , r G r a n t E ~ W , A Y C1 3 6 1 1 21 B O I ~i l o t l I lUe Oily 18; 3 8 1 22 511 Wallher. Y c U ~ t n 1 1 ~1 8 2 1 9 1 23 S l t r ~ K r ~ i ~ l u l ll t l r O I ' v 8 2 1 11 2 1 4 1 1 6 ~ ~ 1 1 8 ~

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    L-collecl Monday ntyht , but it merely u'as +case of vlctory being left up in the ur , 'with 27cars still inrunninvcondlt~onandnot one single race contender in th eshowers.There r e r e s o many questions that-11 bemuwered. sonlany Songs thatWuldm't be sung. in an Indianapolis 50 0 .*st. unWro aq y u+. W ~ l o s & O K t fori i icna& ' '

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    ~lectroniclashing signal light by Honeywell I

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    . ... =AGE 40 IUNE 5. 1976

    or Snow CountryBeing an autornaksr\without a frontdnve car these davs 1s lllre beinnonly one at the pad; withoutmandquletly. hopedoonewlllnohce.wlsb to hell you'd t*ught of it Wore

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    And no nants.~~-= - - ~ -This la embarrlucink. Nobody hadreally mealionmi ityei-$01 Wereequallyh m e r l s s s Toyaa and Shevmlet .boutto-but over ih the corber. Honda andencult and conservadvo Vo lk s w~ wn~~-~an d even that

    w im rumor had it, som6 kind of bizarmSpaniah-styleoutfit hd icked upGod knows where, w plate with asermlhle set ot pantalonG and once hecame in witd hie m o n h and his geU-aammdnasa it wuld onlly be a mpttsr oftime before th e rest of the& would have tostart laughing and point;ng at Datsun tocall attention away fro1 Henry so hewouldn't steal he n&. fIt behoov@ ~ a t ; u ntogoes, cover it s ass.~or tuna te lyNissrnpantsless There ntaa hair, and good.sturdycloth they were,tod,banging in theclosei at home. They'd evbn been worn inEurope fo r a season. jomld work some of (ha

    the 8-210 coupe. while the station wagonis, tobe merciful. no prettier t h o ts rearwheal drive contemporary. Styling isobjective, but th e consensus h u e s that '.while the F-10 is wnsidembly prettierthan it s pictures. it isn't muoh pretterthan anything else.here doesn't seem to be apbreoiab~ygmnter room inside th e F-10 than the B-210. the handling is no better-it's w o r mifyou can't abide undentwr-and a h i l s tma y be rnargInaUy quieter it makes upfor it by h a v h g an even harsher rldeovercertain eurtsaar...h hen here d m ' tseem to be muoh reaeon lor D a m ohave gone to al l the trouble. It W t hbtthe F-l0isahadou.Drthatit'~womeh8ncurrent Nisrran otferinp. It just iadienough better to matter.Well, ever mind. Ifyou always wanted 'a B21O but vou live in Minnsawlis andnoad front aheel drive fo r snow work.you're going to he in HogHeaven with tbaF-tn IAbcutlW.000 F-lOa have kan sold lnCanada and Europe-it's kmown -them-lo thers--and thair rmmi6uheen*The rustprwfiug @em ie the mcr(ertenaiveever on a Datsun. andcompanyengineers pre&ct at least hve muthey e u s under the w o w wn&tions. Theoptlorul underwatlng add8an additionalfive to that. so rust should never be aproblem with the cars.The two cam. the coupe and the wagon.arenearly identical in size,with identicalwldth and helgbt and only a e0 poundd~flerencen weight (the wagon at 1960pounds 1slighter). awe the coupe 1stwoinch- lower at 51.8incbea Dstailmu e i nI- for the spsc hox. Front swpensions am hethat sune, independent atrut. with m a y bus. I

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    .AULurn r t ~ mm SIZ m.1.0 n*nma ~ t mUHII.mnlman L ~ y r ~ l n - . * h t n ~ ~ o k l10 u r o n ~ uma- I -1- m r nm OW ) -Automotive . S >Y S ~ * ~ ~ m ~ l l l i . l i ~ n ~ .I .P I m l r m n n a n r - a a w . r n r c r a w r a p . n"rn .(aPLunlu.Dmr*UU*nL.lMIC*rCI1.r1.Enthusiasts -. )rrunwampo T.OanMantM.W-.ch.U1#wa~ardm~11510-r*l.3w01~Ulfill OyrC-u.d.Marketplace M Y ~ M ~ . w ~ I * U ~ I O ~ -. .~ - )MOIOCIU- a h .uu.~-~r-bI. .ry~*r l- .urnl l l l YOY~ l " , l D l *b-DIPr,XOI#.d

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