Daytona Coupes first to use lift jacks ??

[BT SNAKE]

I heard this and always thought that Penski race team in late sixties was the first on an Indy car.

Does anybody know if this is true. ... Maybe I missed it on this forum already.
Sorry if it's redundent.

Hersh

[computerworks]

Don't know if they were the first, but the Coupes had 'em in 1964, Hersh.

[BT SNAKE]

Thanks Ron. That's pretty neat. All this time I thought it was a big deal
that Penski did it on an Indy car.

Hersh

[bkozlow]

To the best of my memory, the Daytonas were the first to use air jacks in long distance road racing. They were copied from Indy.

Bill K

[BT SNAKE]

Does anyone know what race car was the FIRST to use air lift jacks ??

Hersh

[VRM]

Hersh,
As far as I can tell the Daytonas did not have air jacks until the 1965 Daytona race.
The Penske/Hall Corvette Grand Sport had them at Sebring in 1964. There were 5 Grand Sports (or six, depending on who you talk to), and only the Penske/Hall GS-005 coupe and the Penske owned GS-001 roadster at the 1966 Sebring race had them.

I don't know of any sports car that used them in racing prior to 1964.

I'm pretty sure that it was Agajanian (sp?) who invented it for Indy cars, but I don't really have much interest in Indy so I'm not exactly sure when.

Steve

[raw]

Hi Coming over to yhe USA from Australia to see the FF5 Type 65 do you now of any owners of these in the Boston area .
Regards Warwick.