In 1971, NASCAR banned Chrysler Corporation's winged Plymouth Superbirds and Dodge Charger Daytonas.
In September 1971, Harry Hyde, along with son, Harry Lee Hyde, Buddy Parrott and a number of other volunteers headed to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah with one of those beautiful orange #71 K&K Insurance Dodge Charger Daytonas to see how it might fare.
It fared pretty darned good. With NASCAR champ, Bobby Isaac at the wheel, the group set 28 certified world speed records for stock cars.
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Now from the digitized 16mm sports film archives of Roanoke, Virginia television station WSLS as preserved at the University of Virginia Library in Charlottesville, Virginia, we can watch some of the Bonneville action.
Link below to film, followed by sports anchor copy:
http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2237748
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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM