Anthony63

Also I think that it would be important to note that the other car in the video is not the car that becomes know as #8. The car that is running in the video, does not have a roll bar in it. It would not have been permitted to run 'at speed' without one. The video was mainly for PR. Think about it... random times where Andy lets off of the throttle, a truck with a camera man keeping up with a record setting car, and if you are doing it for the PR then use a car with emblems on it.

Looking back it may have been Regnalbob who posted about the video. Again just trying to help straighten the history to the best of my memory and examinations of many photographs.

In watching the video again, I notice the R-2 badges on the car... the prototype never had those either. No emblems were ever on that car. This picture from the video is the actual car. Notice the roll bar and lack of hood emblem. Most of the video shows a car with no roll bar and all of the Studebaker and Avanti trim. You can also see that the actual car had a USAC sticker on the driver door during the runs.

Not exactly correct on the above B numbers, at least not according to what I have from Joe years ago. DWR-46: Please no offense to this. None of my post are meant to offend anyone. I only hope to figure out some of this great history and it would seem like there is a lot of crazy info floating around. DWR-46 I did enjoy your post on trying to correct folks on the Bonneville Record Breaker video. I noticed that the car that they used mostly in the video had no roll bar and had emblems on it, the prototype that became the Due Cento did not have any of those. There are a few shots in the video that are the actual car. B-7 was an R-4 that was in the #7 Hawk B-8 was not an R-4, it was an R-3 that went to the engineering department B-9 was also an R-3, the Lark convertible #3 had R-4 B-28, dual valve springs, and a 275 camshaft.

I'm not sure how to send messages either! Those panels were made out of metal. There was a complete belly pan as well. The car was run in 63 with several different configurations. Some runs with the full pan and skirts, runs with just the skirts, some with nothing at all, and even down to different wheels.